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November 2015 1. AUSTRALIA. History of Australia edited by Kate Short, assisted by Mike White and Mick Tsounis. Thorngate, SA: James Standish, 1976. First Australian edition. Graphic history of Australia. Illustrated by Jim Cane. From Captain Cook’s arrival until Whitlam’s dismissal; 54pp. Small qto. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $85.00
2. AUSTRALIAN ART. Australian Modern Painting Between the Wars 1914 - 1939 by Mary Eagle. Sydney: Bay Books, 1989. First Australian edition. Grace Cossington Smith, Max Meldrum, Roy de Maistre, William Dobell and many others through the Depression and framed by two World Wars; illustrated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $75.00
3. AUSTRALIAN ART. Aboriginal Art and Spirituality by Rosemary Crumlin and Anthony Knight. North Blackburn, VIC: Collins Dove, 1991. First Australian edition. Exhibition catalogue surveying contemporary Aboriginal Art. INSCRIBED BY ROSEMARY CRUMLIN TO ROY CHURCHER IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION; with an accompanying letter from her to Churcher and a note from Anthony Knight also to Churcher all laid in. Fine in dustwrapper. $200.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 4. AUSTRALIAN ART. Papunya Tula - Genesis and Genius edited by Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales in Association with Papunya Tula Artists, 2000. First Australian paper edition. Exhibition catalogue of art from the centre of Australia; extensively illustrated. BETTY CHURCHER’S COPY WITH HER ANNOTATIONS AND UNDERLININGS. Pictorial wrappers. Creases to spine, else fine. $75.00
5. AUSTRALIAN ART. Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century edited by Lou Klepac. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2000. First Australian edition. Eight essays by Barry Pearce, Sasha Grishin, Gavin Fry, Deborah Hart, Peter Pinson, John McDonald, Bruce James and Lou Klepac; 243 reproductions, most colour. INSCRIBED TO BETTY CHURCHER BY LOU KLEPAC. Fine in dustwrapper. $175.00
6. AUSTRALIAN ART. Untitled - Portraits of Australian Artists by Sonia Payes. South Yarra: Macmillan, 2007. First Australian edition. Photographs by Payes of 60 Australian artists accompanied by pieces from a range of academics, curators and writers: David Malouf on Ann Thomson, Terence Maloon on Aida Tomescu, Edmund Capon on Jeffrey Smart; SIGNED BY PAYES IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 7. AUSTRALIAN WRITERS. Writers - Interviews with the Camera edited and curated by Di Yerbury. Sydney: Macquarie University, 1989. First Australian edition. Photographs by Reece Scannell, biographical notes by Thomas Shapcott. Sixty-eight photographs of Australian writers; laid in is an autograph letter SIGNED FROM DI YERBURY TO MORRIS LURIE and an invitation to the Sydney launch on 9 April 1990. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
8. BAKER, FRANK. The Frank Baker Letters – Recollections of the Early 1900s edited by Ellen Waugh. Randwick, NSW: Randwick and District Historical Society, 1989. First Australian edition. Born in Roslyn Gardens, Kings Cross, 1890, childhood in Coogee, wounded in World War One, found his way to Hollywood, 122 movies from 1923 to 1974 according to IMDB, and began these letters to Mrs. June Moore of the publishers in 1975 when he heard of the imminent demolition of “Cliffbrook”, the grand house overlooking Thompson Bay; 57pp. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $60.00
9. BALDWIN, SUZY. Best of Friends - Australian Women Talk About Friendship. Ringwood, VIC: Penguin, 2001. First Australian edition. Interviews with 12 Australian women: Quentin Bryce, Barbara Blackman, Mary Vallentine, Joanna Murray-Smith and eight others; INSCRIBED TO BETTY CHURCHER BY THE AUTHOR AND, SEPARATELY, BY BARBARA BLACKMAN. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $45.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 10. BLACKMAN, BARBARA. Glass After Glass. Ringwood, VIC: Viking, 1997. First Australian edition. The author’s autobiography. Laid in is a typed letter, SIGNED TO ROY CHURCHER, 17 DECEMBER 1995, thanking him for a Kenneth Koch poem that he’d sent and relating its fate at a meeting of a group of local women writers and artists. Near fine in dustwrapper. $125.00
11. (BOLDREWOOD, ROLF.) La Grande Rapina, directed by Jack Lee (1958). Original poster for the Italian release of Robbery Under Arms, based on the novel by Rolf Boldrewood. Very little to do with bushrangers, Australia or the story at all but a lot of Western archetypes: violent men, destiny, and women. Poster measures 68 x 32cms. Small piece missing bottom right corner, else fine. $400.00
12. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Australian Books. Melbourne: Hall’s Book Store, 1939. Catalogue for the Bourke Street and Chapel Street shops: Flying Fox and Drifting Sand, Koonwarra, just published; also ‘famous books in cheap editions’, the Pollyanna books, poetry, children’s and, sigh, postage per title between 3d and 6d; 12pp. Pictorial wrappers, stapled, no room for Tasmania, edges darkened. Very good. $35.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 13. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Ward Lock’s 2/- Copyright Novels by John Loder. Melbourne: The Author, 2013. First Australian edition. Title continues, ‘in litho boards & cloth spines gilt. With notes on the 6d. series in litho paper wrappers & Detective & Adventure Stories in two tints picture wrappers.’ #21/75 numbered copies. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $50.00
14. BOUNTY. Les Revoltes du Bounty. Original French poster for the second American version of Mutiny on the Bounty, directed by Lewis Milestone, and released in France on 21 December 1962. The enduring elements in the design of posters for the many movie versions of this story: contrasting images of Bligh and Christian, the Bounty at centre, the exotica of the Tahitians and, oddly given the budget, the imagery is all in black and white. Poster measures 80 x 61cms. A couple of nicks and reinforced on reverse at corners. Very good. $300.00
15. (BOYD, ARTHUR.) Arthur Boyd by Franz Philipp. London: Thames and Hudson, 1967. First English edition. 100+ b&w reproductions, 44 tipped-in colour plates; BETTY CHURCHER’S COPY WITH HER SIGNATURE. Very fine in dustwrapper. $125.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 16. BRADDON, RUSSELL. The Inseparables. London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First English edition. Understanding Nazism without hindsight; autograph letter, SIGNED FROM RUSSELL BRADDON LAID IN, 18TH NOVEMBER 1968 - freezing in London, thanks for remembering etc. Signature of the recipient of the letter on front free endpaper, else fine in dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine. $35.00
17. BRYSON, JOHN. Evil Angels - the Case of Lindy Chamberlain. New York: Summit Books, 1985. First American edition. INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE BY THE AUTHOR IN 1987; laid in is an invitation to the presentation of the Allen Lane award to Bryson for the book at the Perseverance Hotel, Fitzroy, 30 October 1986. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
18. BRYSON, JOHN. To the Death, Amic. Ringwood, VIC: Viking, 1994. First Australian edition. An Australian novel set during the Spanish Civil War. INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 19. BUCKLER, BEN. Pin-Up Girl. Sydney: Caslon House, 1944. First Australian edition. Illustrations by Francis J. Broadhurst. Doggerel rescued by Mr. Broadhurst’s racy illustrations. Plain wrappers, stapled. Fine in dustwrapper darkened around perimeter. $45.00
20. (CALWELL, ARTHUR.) Violence in Australian Politics – a Statement by the Mosman Branch, Australian Labor Party, about the Attempted Assassination of Arthur Calwell at Mosman, June 21st, 1966. Mosman, NSW: Australian Labor Party Mosman Branch, 1966. An account of the meeting, Mr. Calwell’s departure, and his shooting. Printed wrappers, stapled. Near fine. $100.00
21. CAMPION, JANE AND HELEN GARNER. Jane Campion. 1987. A modest, ephemeral promotional booklet re Jane Campion taking her career as far as Two Friends, her television movie. Five short autobiographical pieces by Jane Campion, followed by one by Helen Garner, the writer of the screenplay. Back to back English and French versions. Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. $45.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 22. CAREY, PETER. My Life as a Fake. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First American editions. Two vols. The uncorrected proof and advance reading copy of the American edition of the author channelling the Ern Malley hoax. Printed wrappers and pictorial wrappers. Both fine. The two vols $60.00
23. CAREY, PETER. His Illegal Self. Sydney: Knopf, 2008. Prepublication promotional booklet printing chapters 1 and 2. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $35.00
24. CHATWIN, BRUCE. The Songlines. London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. First English edition. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed wrappers. Fine in oversized dustwrapper creased around edges. $60.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 25. CHRISTO. Christo - John Kaldor Art Project edited by Nicholas Baume and Jeanne-Claude Christo. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1990. First Australian edition. Exhibition catalogue; illustrated and four long essays covering all of Christo’s career. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST TO BERRY CHURCHER. Pictorial wrappers. Soft crease to spine, else fine. $300.00
26. DALZIELL, ROSAMUND. Shameful Autobiographies. Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1999. First Australian edition. Sub-titled ‘Shame in Contemporary Australian Autobiographies and Culture’. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MORRIS LURIE who figures prominently in the chapter on ‘Immigrant Shame’. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
27. DAVISON, FRANK DALBY. While Freedom Lives. Sydney: The Author, 1938. First Australian edition. The author’s anti-fascist pamphlet, produced in monumental dimensions. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Some wear at edges, else fine. $85.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 28. DE BOISSIERE, RALPH. Rum and Coca-Cola. Melbourne: Australasian Book Society, 1956. First Australian edition. The author’s second novel, after Crown Jewel. Plain wrappers. Fine in near fine dustwrapper designed by R.G. Edwards. $60.00
EMILY DICKINSON IN MURRUMBATEMAN
29. DICKINSON, EMILY. Hope is the Thing. Murrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press, 2013. A local printing of an Emily Dickinson poem written c.1861 and first published in book form in 1891. #47/50 NUMBERED COPIES, the first publication of the Press. Hand-set and printed by Michael Richards on Fabriano Rosaspina. Single sheet, 35 x 25cms. Fine. $100.00
30. (DOBELL, WILLIAM.) William Dobell - an Artist’s Life by Elizabeth Donaldson. Wollombi, NSW: Exisle Publishing, 2010. Across the artist’s career: London, World War Two, the Joshua Smith portrait, Papua, Wangi; and an illustrated index of Dobell’s drawings and paintings. The limited edition, published simultaneously with the trade; #9/199 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Leatherbound, stamped in gold. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. $150.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 31. DUTTON, GEOFFREY edits. Kumpulan Cerita Pendek Australia. Jakarta:Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 1994. Twenty-seven stories Australian stories, translated into Indonesian. Authors include Henry Lawson, Gwen Harwood, Peter Carey, Helen Garner; no Patrick White or Christina Stead. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $45.00
INSCRIBED BY DALTON, SIGNED BY EAKIN
32. EAKIN, ROBIN. Aunts Up the Cross. South Melbourne: Macmillan,1965. Second Australian edition. Foreword by Ben Travers. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, AS ROBIN DALTON, AND SIGNED AGAIN, AS ROBIN EAKIN, ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine in dustwrapper illustrated by Dinah Dryhurst. $85.00
33. EUROPE AND AMERICA. European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870 -1970 in the Australian National Gallery by Michael Lloyd and Michael Desmond. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1992. First Australian edition. Exhibition catalogue INSCRIBED BY BOTH CURATORS TO BETTY CHURCHILL, ‘Your support made this possible’, Director of the Gallery at the time of the exhibition. Fine in dustwrapper. $300.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 34. GARNER, HELEN. Monkey Grip. Ringwood, VIC: Penguin,1980. Reprint. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE IN 1981 AND, ON THE PRELIMS, SIGNED BY 30 MEMBERS OF THE CAST AND CREW OF THE MOVIE VERSION including Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels (Nora and Javo), Ken Cameron (director), Tim Burns, Patricia Lovell (producer); many of the signatories have written their role after their names and there is the annotation, ‘Monkey Grip Crew, June 8, 1981’ at the top of the page. Pictorial wrappers. Front cover creased. Very good. $500.00
35. GARNER, HELEN. Cosmo Cosmolino. Ringwood, VIC: McPhee Gribble,1992. First Australian edition. Uncorrected proof, sent out for review with publication date of 2 March 1992 printed on the front cover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Printed wrappers. A couple of marks on covers. Very good. $85.00
36. GARNER, HELEN. Cosmo Cosmolino. Ringwood, VIC: McPhee Gribble,1992. First Australian edition. Review copy with publisher’s embargo slip tipped in; publication date 2 March 1992; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] And to the celebrities featured – thankyou for opening your homes to us and making us feel so welcome. You are, one and all, celebrities in the true sense of the word.
37. GASP. Australian Celebrity Homes edited by Rhonda Bannister. [Springwood, Qld.] Graphic Publishing, 1987. Series 1, No.1, the first and only issue. Article and colour spread, 10pp.-15pp. each, inside the homes of eleven 1980s celebrities including Danny La Rue, Peter Brock, Sir John Gorton, Stefan, Greg Evans and Ray Barrett; various writers and photographers, the word casa figures in many of the articles and the fulsome tone extends to the acknowledgements, see above; 128pp. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $150.00
38. GLASSOP, LAWSON. We Were the Rats. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1944. First Australian edition. Foreword by Norman Lindsay. Withdrawn by the publisher nineteen months, and 10,000+ copies sold, after publication when a reader took exception to its language and referred it to the Tasmanian Women’s Non-Party League. Chapter 31 caused most concern and, on republication in 1961, had been removed. Owner’s signature dated 1944. Very good in dustwrapper. $85.00
39. GLEESON, JAMES. The Inaugural Dobell Memorial Lecture. Sydney: The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, 1977. First Australian edition. The text of the artist’s lecture on Dobell; SIGNED BY JAMES GLEESON, #29/350 COPIES. Original blue cloth, stamped in gold. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
$200.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 40. GLEESON-WHITE, JANE. Six Capitals, or Can Accountants Save the Planet? New York: Norton, 2015. First American edition. Published here last year, with a none too subtle difference, as Six Capitals: the Revolution Capitalism Has to Have Or Can Accountants Save the Planet? Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
41. GOLF. History of the Australian Golf Club and Golfing Information by [J.P. Hardy]. Kensington, NSW. 1947. A substantial in-house book of ‘reference for the use of Committeemen’, first produced in 1939, revised in 1943, and revised again for this edition. Chapters on the history of golf, the Australian Golf Club, the Lucifer Golfing Society, rules, handicapping, members; 80pp. Printed stiffened wrappers. A4 sheets, printed rectos only. Title page printed, the remainder gestetnered, single space; six illustrations. Fine. $150.00
42. GRAINGER, PERCY. The Free Music Machine Drawings of Percy Grainger. Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland: Coracle, 2014. First edition. Introduction by Wilfred Mellers, written in 1999. #53/300 NUMBERED COPIES. Illustrations with specifications and other details for Grainger’s machines to make “Free Music feasible” or his “funny, old machines”, “Kangaroo- Pouch Method of Synchronising & Playing & Oscillators” (front view), for example, is illustrated. Twenty-two colour reproductions of mostly watercolours, all produced by Grainger during 1951-1952, and held in the Grainger Museum Collection at the University of Melbourne. Original blue cloth with pictorial colour vignette tipped onto front panel. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. $150.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 43. GREENBERG, CLEMENT. Avant-garde Attitudes. Sydney: Power Institute of Fine Arts, 1969. First Australian edition. Text of Clement Greenberg’s lecture on contemporary art delivered at the University of Sydney, 17 May 1968. Betty Churcher’s copy with her signature. Printed wrappers, stapled. Perimeter sunned top edge, else fine. $60.00
44. GREENHALGH, MICHAEL. Bernini and the City of Rome. Sydney: The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, 1988. First Australian edition. Text of the sixth Dobell lecture, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Original blue cloth, stampled in gold. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. 200 copies. $150.00
45. GRIMM, GEORGE. The Australian Explorers. Melbourne: George Robertson and Company, 1888. First Australian edition. From the crossing of the Blue Mountains to Ernest Giles. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Original green cloth. Covers marked, corners scuffed. Good. $50.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] ANDERSON’S HAZZARD
46. HAZZARD, SHIRLEY. Cliffs of Fall. London: Macmillan,1963. First English edition. The author’s first book: ten stories, all but one had first appeared in The New Yorker; JESSICA ANDERSON’S COPY WITH HER SIGNATURE. Near fine in very good dustwrapper sunned on spine and with a couple of chips at edges. $200.00
47. (HIRSH, EMMANUEL AND ETTA). An Ordinary Couple: Emmanuel and Etta Hirsh by Luba Bila. [San Francisco]: blurb.com, 2009. First American edition. The story of Australian art collectors, ‘The Hirshes’. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
MICK DUNDEE IN NEW YORK IN WARSAW
48. (HOGAN, PAUL.) Krokodyll Dundee II. Original Polish poster for Crocodile Dundee II, directed by John Cornell, and opened in Poland in 1989. A striking black and white poster by M.Wasilewski which works the teeth of the crocodile into the New York skyline and, in true Polish style, the design is not finished there: the crocodile’s head is really a mask for ... Poster measures 69 x 96cms. Rolled. Fine. $300.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 49. HOME ENTERTAINMENT. Milestones - Pathé-Baby Throws a New Light on Home Entertaining. Sydney: Home Recreations Ltd, local agent Heiron and Smith, 388 George Street, 1924. Promotional booklet for the Pathé-Baby a 9.5mm projector for screening movies at home. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Foxed internally, else very good. $35.00
50. (HUGHES, W.M.) Billy Hughes and Censorship by R. Dixon. Melbourne: Political Rights Committee, 1942. The Melbourne edition of this pamphlet which was also issued in Perth and Sydney between 1940 and 1949. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Sunned around perimeter. Very good. $85.00
51. INDIGENOUS. Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia edited by Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy. Macquarie University, NSW: The Macquarie Library, 2005. First Australian edition. Indigenous Australia mapped, described and illustrated. INSCRIBED BY HOWARD [MORPHY], PUBLISHER’S READER FOR THE BOOK. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] BETTY, SINGLE, IN JACKET
52. JAMES WINIFRED. Bachelor Betty. New York: Dutton, 1908. Second printing. Follow Betty through a string of romantic adventures; reprinted four times in four weeks when published in England in 1906. The author’s first book in a spectacular 1908 dustwrapper. Fine in near fine dustwrapper missing a small piece from the top of the front panel. $500.00
53. JIGGENS, JOHN. The Incredible Exploding Man – Evan Pederick and the Trial of Tim Anderson. North Quay, QLD: Samizdat Press, 1991. First Australian edition. Inside and not quite inside the Hilton Bombing. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
54. JOLLEY, ELIZABETH. The Newspaper of Claremont Street. Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1981. #409/500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] COOMBS’ JONES
55. (JONES, OWEN.) Owen Jones – Labour Pioneer on the Castlemaine Goldfield by Raymond A. Bradfield. Castlemaine, VIC: The Author, 1983. First Australian edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO DR H COOMBS, WITH COOMBS’ SIGNATURE AND HIS BOOKPLATE. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $35.00
56. (KERR, SIR JOHN). Kerrtoons! Collingwood, VIC: Outback Press,1979. First Australian edition. A Private Eye type assault on Sir John Kerr, ie photographs with dialogue and thought bubbles, also cartoons by Patrick Cook, Larry Pickering, Ron Tandberg and many others. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
57. (KIDMAN, NICOLE.) Windrider. Original Australian poster for Windrider, directed by Vincent Monton, and premiered Boxing Day 1986. No need for a tagline, the images of Tom Burlinson, a youthful Nicole Kidman, waves and part of a surfboard are more than explanatory. Poster measures 66 x 34cms. Rolled. A couple of pin holes in corners else fine. $100.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 58. (KOCH, C.J.) The Year of Living Dangerously, directed by Peter Weir (1983). Promotional booklet to accompany the screening in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Background, bios, 2pp. on the Australian New Wave; 24pp. printed rectos only. English text. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. $100.00
ROLAND’S KOCH
59. KOCH, C.J. The Doubleman. London: Chatto and Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1985. First English edition. The author’s first Miles Franklin winner; SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER KOCH. BETTY ROLAND’S WITH HER SIGNATURE AND DATED 3RD MAY 1985. Faint scratch on rear panel, else fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
60. LAMBERT, BOBBY-Z. Paintings and Writings. [Hobart]: The Franklin Press, 2009. First Australian edition. Introduction by Sean Kelly. Documents the artist’s work and travels from 2006-2008; 60pp. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST TO BETTY CHURCHER IN 2011. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $100.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] LEA TO LURIE
61. LEA, SHELTON. The Love Poems. Eaglemont, VIC: Eaglemont Books, 1993. First Australian edition. Illustrations by Jenni Mitchell. One of seven titles published from the author’s bookshop at Eaglemont. INSCRIBED TO MORRIS LURIE, ‘It is the angels dust from wings that bids us dream’, BY THE AUTHOR. 1,000 copies. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $85.00
62. LURIE, MORRIS. Three Stories & Ten Drawings (plus one original). [Melbourne]: Grossman Press, 1987. First Australian edition. #Q OF 26 OUT OF SERIES COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND DALE HICKEY, THE ARTIST. Black cloth and printed boards. Fine in glassine dustwrapper as issued. $150.00
63. MACMILLAN, DAVID S. The Debtor’s War - Scottish Capitalists and the Economic Crisis in Australia 1841-1846. Melbourne: F.W.Cheshire, 1960. First Australian edition. The relationship between Colonial Borrowers and Scottish Financiers in the mid 19th century; unravelled from the archive of the Scottish Australian Company. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1962. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00
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64. MALOUF, DAVID. Harland’s Half Acre. London: Chatto and Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984. First English edition. ‘Sent at the author’s request’ on the local publisher’s slip stapled onto the front free endpaper and SIGNED BY HELEN GARNER. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
65. MARDI GRAS. Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Festival: Feb.6-Mar.1. Darlinghurst, NSW: Sydney Gay Mardi Gras Association,1987. Program from the 10th anniversary: potted history by Martin Portus, hints on costume making, “A Gay Guide to Non-Gay Sydney” by Larry Galbraith, full program, messages of support, entry form for The Parade, and period advertisements, 62pp. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $100.00
66. MEADMORE, CLEMENT. The Modern Chair. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1979. First paper edition. Analysing 30+ contemporary chairs; illustrated; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Pictorial wrappers. Errata sheet laid in. Very good. $250.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 67. (MICHAELIS, MARGARET.) Margaret Michaelis - Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis. Canberra, ACT: National Gallery of Australia, 2005. First Australian edition. Exhibition catalogue and pictorial biography of a not untypical 20th century European life. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $100.00
68. MILLER, HARRY M. My Story as told to Denis O’Brien. South Melbourne: Macmillan,1983. First Australian edition. From Auckland to leaving Cessnock jail on 1 March 1983, many high spots in between. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR - ‘... a small token of gratitude for your kindness and consideration’ - IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
69. MURRAY, LES. Fredy Neptune. Manchester: Carcanet, 1998. First English edition. First hardcover edition. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 70. NEW AUSTRALIANS. Let Stalk Strine. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1974. New edition. Air Fridge to Zarf Trawl, via ‘x’ - the plural of egg and a tool for chopping wood. Illustrations by Al Terego. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
71. NEWS. Alternative News Service. St. Kilda, VIC: Alternative News Service,1971. Issue #20A: syndicated articles - ‘Computers Could Enslave People’, ‘Paris Leftists Disarm Police’, Robert Cobb drawing - and local - ‘A Day at the Film Censors’, and a long section on Namibia; 12pp. Roneoed foolscap sheets, printed rectos and versos, stapled, pp.8,10 a little rubbed, else all fine. $85.00
72. (NOLAN, SIDNEY.) Sir Sidney Nolan 22 April 1917-28 November 1992. Canberra, ACT: National Gallery of Australia, 1993. Booklet from the Memorial Service at the National Gallery, 28 January 1993, containing texts of speeches by Paul Keating, Lady Nolan, Elwyn Lynn, Jinx Nolan, Betty Churcher and Michael Langslow, the artist’s grandson. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $85.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] But when the two Americans asked Norman if he believed in God and human rights, he didn’t hesitate. “We knew that what we were going to do was far greater than any athletic feat,” said Carlos at Norman’s funeral in 2006, where he and Smith carried the coffin. “He said, ‘I’ll stand with you.’ ” http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/world-finally-recognises-little-known-aussie-hero-in- iconic-photo/story-fno61i58-1227570804030
73. (NORMAN, PETER.) Presentation of medals for the men’s 200 metres at the Summer Olympics, Mexico City, 16th October 1968. New York: Personality Posters Inc., 1969. Vintage black and white poster of Tommie Smith (gold medallist) and John Carlos (bronze) standing with raised black gloved fists during the playing of the American national anthem. Peter Norman, the Australian athlete and silver medallist, stands on the podium wearing a badge endorsing the Olympic Project for Human Rights.
Peter Norman’s decision to wear that badge, a small white circle in the image, proved an expensive gesture by the athlete. It constituted an unforgiveable crime for an amateur Australian sportsman: he had allowed politics into sport. His punishment was immediate and permanent: ostracised by the Australian Olympic Committee, not selected for the Munich Olympics (1972) though ranked fifth best in the world at the time and running the necessary qualifying times, and not invited to the Sydney Olympics (2000) with other former Australian Olympians for a lap of honour. Peter Norman died in 2006. Tommie Smith and John Carlos were pallbearers at his funeral in Melbourne. And Norman’s Mexico City Olympic time of 20.06 seconds is currently the men’s Australian record for the 200 metres.
Peter Norman’s achievement in the 200 metres, his actions at the medal ceremony, reaction of the Australian Olympic Committee and exclusion from Australian athletics history are, after forty years, becoming better known locally: Salute, a feature length documentary, was released in 2008. In August 2012, Andrew Leigh, the Federal member for Fraser, moved that the Australian Government recognise Norman’s athletic achievements, acknowledge the bravery of his show of solidarity with Tommie Smith and John Carlos, and apologise to him for wrong done in failing to send him to the Munich Olympics and belatedly recognises the powerful role that he played in furthering racial equality. The motion was passed in October 2012 with no dissenting voices.
Poster measures 103.5 x 74cms. Linen backed, rolled, very lightly toned. Near fine. $1,750.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 74. O’GRADY, JOHN. They’re a Weird Mob. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1965. Reprint. Illustrations by “Wep”. A day at the location of the movie version, SIGNED BY 45 MEMBERS OF THE CAST AND CREW including Nino Culotta, Michael Powell (the director), Walter Chiari, Clare Dunne, Ed Devereaux, Slim De Grey, John Meillon (all actors), Arthur Grant (cinematographer), Dennis Gentle (art director), and, at the beginning of their careers, Julian Ellingworth and David Copping. Fine in dustwrapper with the remnants of a stain on the top of the inside front fold and a repair on the inside of the crown of the spine. $500.00
75. (OLSEN, JOHN.) John Olsen by Deborah Hart. East Roseville, NSW: Craftsman House, 1991. First Australian edition. INSCRIBED TO ROY AND BETTY CHURCHER BY JOHN OLSEN IN 1992. Edgewear and small mark to front free endpaper, else fine in dustwrapper. $250.00
76. 1970s. Ferretabilia - Life and Times of Nation Review. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, 1993. First Australian edition. Extracts from, and history of, the Australian newspaper of the 1970s: when Sam Orr, John Hepworth, Michael Leunig, Bob Ellis were all new; illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Invitation to the Melbourne launch at the Great Northern Hotel, Carlton laid in. Fine. $35.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 77. 1990s. Rave – Sydney Rave Flyers 1990-1995. Sydney: Sydney Rave Flyers, 2014. . First Australian edition. Hardcover trade edition. Two hundred and ninety-seven flyers –colour, b&w, figurative, type only- reproduced, dates and titles, short introduction for the mood of each year. Pictorial boards. Transparent dustwrapper. New at the published price. Qto. $100.00
78. PAPUA. Father Justin - a Story of Papua by M.D. Forrest. Kensington, NSW: Sacred Heart Monastery, 1922. Second Australian edition. Papuan missionary life in the early 20th century, most on Yule Island; photographs. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Original patterned cloth. Pages evenly tanned. Very good. $85.00
79. PARK, RUTH. A. Fence Around the Cuckoo. Ringwood, VIC: Viking, 1992. First Australian edition. The first volume of autobiography; INSCRIBED BY RUTH PARK. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 80. PETROV AFFAIR. Petrov Cross-Examined – Evidence and Statements Before Menzies’ Royal Commission. Melbourne, 1955. Transcripts from the Royal Commission, short explanatory entries re participants, 15pp. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Printed on newsprint, frayed at edges and darkened on covers. Very good. $150.00
81. PRESS. How the Press Fools the People. Melbourne: International Bookshop, 1946. First Australian edition. The Press as the agent of the interests of the corporations or, in postwar terms, “Big Business”. Printed wrappers, stapled. Covers lightly marked. Very good. $45.00
82. QUEENSLAND. ‘Health is Wealth’ - Natural Herbs for Natural Cures. Brisbane: Roberts Health Academy, nd. Evangelical from the Brisbane Academy: recipes together with detailed lists of all foods divided into ‘Best’, ‘Second-best’ and ‘Not recommended’; vitamin chart, food combination chart; 47pp. Pictorial wrappers. Covers marked. Printed recipes tipped into front and rear prelims. Very good. $35.00
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83. RAIL. Road Through the Wilderness - the Story of the Transcontinental Railway by David Burke. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press, 1991. First Australian edition. Building the line between Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie, now 1,690kms; illustrated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ‘ABOARD TRACKS TO FEDERATION TRAIN EAST-WEST LINE 22.10.01’. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00
84. RANGAS. Coppertop Cruises by Harold Gaze. Melbourne: Melbourne Publishing Company, 1920. First Australian edition. The second book featuring the redoubtable ranga. Printed grey boards with vignette of Captain Coppertop on the cover. Corners scuffed, pages browned, 7 colour plates all bright. Near fine. MUIR 2704 $100.00
85. RANKIN, JENNIFER J. Earth Hold. London: Secker and Warburg, 1978. First English edition. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN OLSEN AND INSCRIBED BY HIM, WITH A DRAWING, TO BETTY CHURCHER IN 1979. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. $300.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 86. (RAPER, GEORGE.) First Fleet Artist - George Raper’s Birds and Plants of Australia by Linda Groom. Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia, 2009. First Australian edition. Short biography of Raper followed by colour illustrations of the complete Ducie Collection or Australian birds and plants at the time of the First Fleet. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BETTY CHURCHILL. Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. $50.00
87. (ROBINSON, WILLIAM.) William Robinson - The Transfigured Landscape. Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology Art Museum and Piper Press, 2011. First Australian edition. Exhibition catalogue to coincide with the artist’s 75th birthday; essays by Deborah Hart, David Malouf, Hannah Fink, Michael Brand, Desmond and Bettina MacAulay;100+ colour reproductions, including panoramic foldouts, and other b&w reproductions. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Fine in dustwrapper. $200.00
PREPARING PARIS FOR ROCKATANSKY
88. (ROCKATANSKY, MAX.) Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller (2015). What a beautiful day! The French teaser poster for the latest Mad Max movie. The elements in the design hark back to the earlier movies - solitary man, burnt out car, apocolyptic landscape - and will become more specific to this installment closer to release. Poster measures 146 x 101cms. Folded. Fine. $100.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 89. (ROCKATANSKY, MAX.) Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller (2015). Original French advance poster. The date of the commercial release is now set, after premiering at Cannes, and the designs of the poster begin: this one is for the car enthusiast fans. Poster measures 150 x 100cms. Folded. Fine. $100.00
90. (ROCKATANSKY, MAX.) Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller (2015). Original French advance poster. Another version of the advance poster: the cars are gone and the stars of the movie, with their weapons and chains, have appeared in a pose reminiscent of Custer at the Little Big Horn, and the title has become a whole lot bigger. Poster measures 150 x 100cms. Folded. Fine. $100.00
91. (ROCKATANSKY, MAX.) Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller (2015). Original French advance poster. The third version: title smaller, stars in focus, background chaos and new tagline. Poster measures 150 x 100cms. Folded. Fine. $100.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 92. (ROCKATANSKY, MAX.) Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller (2015). Max announces his arrival along the boulevards: a set of eight posters which assemble for the billboard version of the most recent Mad Max. The design has the elements for this movie in place: the two protagonists, the title, more guns, less cars and a chain heading off to catch the viewer. Eight sheets, each 150 x 100cms., total unfolded and side by side 300 x 400cms., or 12 square metres. All folded, all fine. $600.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 93. RUSSIA. Letters from Russia 1856 by Lieutenant-Colonel G.A. Maude. Moss Vale, NSW: J.A. Maude, 1996. Second Australian edition. Letters to his wife from the British Military Attaché sent to Russia to witness the coronation of Czar Alexander II. Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. $35.00
94. SELENSITSCH, ALEX. 1 to 9 Texts Words Buildings & Colours. Clifton Hill, VIC: The Author, 1987. First edition. Examining an ‘essential’ image for its characteristics. Edition of 91 copies, this one marked Artist’s Proof, and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With the folded reading guide for the book laid in. Plain wrappers in printed, transparent dustwrapper with a couple of nicks in the corners, else all fine. $300.00
95. SHEEP. The Early History of the Merino Sheep by Sir Norman Kater. Warren, NSW: H.E. Kater and Son, nd. Sheep before the European settlement of Australia and then, in greater detail, their role and contribution here. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $150.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 96. (SHUTE, NEVIL.) A Town Like Alice, directed by Jack Lee (1956). The post production script of the American version - synopsis, summary of the 12 reels, detailed shot by shot - the English information folder written and compiled by George Mason -promotional features, Peter Finch’s ‘Left and Right Hands’, stories from the movie, who’s who etc., roneoed sheets, 75pp; and a coloured pressbook of promotional points for the movie’s international release, 8pp. Printed wrappers. Signs of light use and remnants of a dampstain in one corner of the American script; overall very good. The three items $900.00
MELBOURNE IN BUENOS AIRES
97. (SHUTE, NEVIL.) La Hora Final. Original Argentinian poster for On the Beach, directed by Stanley Kramer, premiered 10 August 1960. The usual submarine, signifier of nuclear oblivion, has disappeared and been replaced with a tidal wave and the image of the two leads together. Poster measures 109 x 74cms. One nick middle right edge, else fine. $600.00
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98. STOW, RANDOLPH. Tourmaline. London: Macdonald, 1963. First English edition. Roger Milliss’ copy with his signature and dated 1964. Very good in dustwrapper with a couple of chips at edges. $85.00
99. SYDNEY. One Hundred Years Ago - Life on Sydney’s Upper North Shore by Ian A. Ramage. Waitara, NSW: The Author, 1996. First Australian edition. A study of 198 families living in Turramurra and Wahroonga listed in 1897 by George Collingridge with biographical notes on most of the families; illustrated. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper sunned on the spine. $40.00
100. TASMANIA. Reading in Colonial Tasmania by Keith Adkins. Monash University, VIC: The Ancora Press, 2010. First Australian edition. Sub-titled The Early Years of the Evandale Subscription Library; or a small community south of Launceston during the 1840s. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 101. (THATCHER, G.W.) Essays in Honour of Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher 1863-1950 edited by E.C.B. Maclaurin. University of Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1967. First Australian edition. Eleven essays by, among others, A.P. Elkin, Barbara Thiering and A.S.Tritton. INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR. Fine in dustwrapper with a nick at the crown of the spine. $40.00
102. VIETNAM. Tillbaka Fran Helvetet. Stockholm, 1980. Original Swedish poster for The Odd Angry Shot, directed by Tom Jeffrey, and premiered there in mid 1980. One of the few Australian movies about the Vietnam War and is it the only one where Graham Kennedy receives top billing? Poster measures 100 x 70cms. Rolled. Fine. $300.00
103. WARTIME. Rationing in Australia – a Review of the Work of the Commonwealth Rationing Commission. Melbourne: Government Printer, 1944. Reviews the period June 1942-December 1944: rules and regulations, across all varieties of clothing, furnishings and food, and administration, policing and enforcement. Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. $85.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 104. WARTIME. Armidale ‘42 Memory and Imagination - a Survivor’s Account by Col Madigan, Jan Senbergs and Don Watson. South Yarra: Macmillan, 1999. Macmillan. First Australian edition. The survivor, artist and historian’s account of the sinking of HMAS Armidale on 1st December 1942. INSCRIBED TO BETTY CHURCHER BY JAN SENBERGS IN 2004. Fine in dustwrapper. $150.00
105. WARTIME. Artists in Action edited by Lola Wilkins. Canberra, ACT: Australian War Memorial, 2005. First Australian edition. Images of Australians at war from colonial times to the Persian Gulf. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00
106. WARTIME. Contact - Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection by Shaune Lakin. Canberra, ACT: Australian War Memorial, 2008. Second Australian edition. 200+ reproductions, ‘Departure of the New South Wales Contingent for the Sudan’, 1885, is the first. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 107. (WHITE, PATRICK.) Patrick White as Playwright by J.R. Dyce. St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press,1974. First Australian edition. Louis H. Clark’s copy with his annotations and a copy of his review clipped from The Courier (Ballarat, 11 January 1975) and SIGNED TWICE BY CLARK. Fine in near fine dustwrapper sunned on the spine. $35.00
108. WINTON, TIM. Shallows. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1984. First Australian edition. The author’s second book. Review copy with publisher’s embargo stamp on half title and publication date listed as 19 October 1984. Edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper. $200.00
109. WINTON, TIM. Cloudstreet. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992. First American edition. Around rivers. A couple of marks to rear board, else fine in dustwrapper. $150.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 110. WINTON, TIM. The Riders. New York: Scribners, 1995. First American edition. An Australian family crisis in Europe. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
111. WINTON, TIM. Cloudstreet. Ringwood, VIC: Viking, 1996. First Australian edition. ‘After twenty-three printings in paperback; having earned something of the status of a contemporary classic; Cloudstreet is now available in hardcover [in Australia] for the first time.’Review copy with publisher’s press release, see above, laid in and publication date of 4 March 1996 stamped on front free endpaper. Slight edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper. $50.00
112. WOMEN. Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease - Girlhood, Maidenhood, Wifehood, Motherhood by J.H. Kellogg. North Fitzroy, VIC: Echo Publishing Company, 1902. First Australian edition. A woman’s body seen as primarily a site for disease and, possibly, health. Stages as set out in the sub-title give a fair idea of Dr. Kellogg’s perspective, 690pp. With the booklet of colour plates, complete and intact, in a pocket at the rear of the book. Quarter leather and black cloth. Extremities marbled. Cracking beginning on front panel and spine, else very good. $85.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 113. WOOLLOOMOOLOO. Watch on the ‘Loo 1920-1980 by Honora Wilkinson. Woolloomooloo, NSW: Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development Co-Op Ltd, 1983. A personal local history, illustrated and written “as an expression of affection ro the Valley of the ‘Loo”, 125pp. Roneoed foolscap pages. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. $35.00
Each house holds up the one next to it ...
114. WOOLLOOMOOLOO. [Woolloomooloo]. A handmade book, no publication details, c.1980. “This collection of information aims to show the visual characteristics of Woolloomooloo. The streets, the buildings, the people, their attitudes, some of the planning schemes and their outcomes” (p.3): photographic prints, illustrations by John Moore, relevant housing commission documents and a huge, foldout aerial image of the Loo. Oblong qto. Comb bound, one page detached. Very good. $150.00
115. WORLD WAR TWO. The Coming War in the Pacific. Sydney: T.Grace, 1940. First Australian edition. A longer version, 14pp., was issued n Melbourne the following year. Three sections: “Why is Australia at War?”, “The Shadow of Yankee Imperialism” and “A Peoples’ Govt. is the Way Out”. Printed wrappers, stapled. Slightly sunned around edges, else fine. $150.00
Orders and queries to [email protected] 116. WRIGHT, JUDITH. Portrait of a Friendship - the Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright. Carlton, VIC: The Miegunyah Press, 2007. First Australian edition. Both sides of fifty years of correspondence;INSCRIBED BY BARBARA BLACKMAN TO BETTY AND ROY CHURCHER IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
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