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SILENT AUCTION OF RARE/UNUSUAL/COLLECTIBLE BOOKS JULY 1 – 4, 2021 All books for auction are listed below, further details can be found on our newsletters. Bidding commences at 9am on Thursday July 1, and bids may be registered until midday on Sunday July 4, shortly after which the successful bidders will be notified. The winning bids will be notified on the Lifeline website within two weeks of the auction. THE FOLLOWING TITLES LISTED BY PUBLICATION DATE WILL BE AUCTIONED: 1. The Port of Refuge or Advice and Instructions to the Master-Mariner in Situations of Doubt, Difficulty and Danger. Manley Hopkins. Publisher Henry King & Co 1873 FIRST EDITION, rare 2. Souvenir of Scotland: Its Cities, Lakes and Mountains. 120 chromolithographic views. Published by T. Nelson & Sons, London 1892 Some foxing on endpapers, but illustrations are unblemished. 3. Lady Susan: The Watsons Jane Austen. Publishers Roberts Brothers, Boston 1892 Published with this work was A Memoir by her nephew, J.E. Austen Leigh. A neat and square book with gilt spine. Condition good. FIRST EDITION 4. Dante's Inferno Dante Alighieri. Trans. Rev. Henry Francis Cary & illustrated by Gustave Dore. Publisher Cassell & Co 1892 5. Dante’s Vision of Purgatory and Paradise Dante Alighieri. Trans. Rev. Henry Francis Cary & illustrated. by Gustave Dore. Publisher Cassell & Co 1893 Minimal foxing, binding square and tight. 6. The Story of the Malakand Field Force Winston Spencer Churchill. Publishers Longmans, Green & Co. 1899 nd st (This is a 2 Edition, dated 6 months after 1 Edition of 1898). Detached front cover, otherwise firm and tight, with maps of operations. 7. Quality Street J. M. Barrie. A Comedy in Four Acts. Publishers Hodder & Stoughton 1901 FIRST EDITION, Illustrator Hugh Thomson. Condition. good 8. Tibet & Nepal Painted & Described by A. Henry Savage Landor. Publisher A&C Black 1905 A fascinating account of one of the mountaineering expeditions of the much-travelled author, who tells fascinating tales of the places he saw and the people he met and travelled with. Page 1 of 9 FIRST EDITION. Good condition for its age. 9. Astronomical Memoirs John Tebbutt, Publisher Hawkesbury Shire Council. Printed by Frederick White, General Printer, Kent St, Sydney 1908 Being a popular and complete account of the astronomical work done by him at the peninsula, Windsor, NSW, from the year 1853 to the close of 1907. This volume bookplate is inscribed "EX-LIBRIS G & N INGLETON". The first 50 pages or so have multiple corrections made in the text, in ink, in careful handwriting. The same handwriting, in the blank section at the end of the book, notes 2 letters to the Sydney Morning Herald and one to the Bulletin. The errata page, at the end of the text, has in fact been acted upon. An intriguing copy, and very rare of this date. 10. Grimm’s Fairy Tales Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) Mrs Edgar Lucas (Translator) 1909 Publisher Constable & Co 11. Papuan Pictures H. M. Dauncey. Publisher London Missionary Society 1913 63 photographs by the author. Condition good for age. FIRST EDITION 12. The Sentimental Bloke C.J. Dennis. Publisher Angus and Robertson 1915 FIRST EDITION, with worn and tattered dust jacket, but internally clean and straight. 13. The Valley of Fear A. Conan Doyle. Publishers G, Bell & Sons 1915 FIRST EDITION (This edition is intended for circulation only in India and British Colonies). Condition firm and sound. 14. Under Furred Hats Geo. L. Berrie. Publishers W. C. Penfold 1919 Story of the 6th Light Horse Regiment, December 1914 -August 1919. Front cover damaged but interior very good – including photos. SIGNED by author. FIRST EDITION 15. The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia Sir Ross Smith. Published by Angus & Robertson 1920 27 Aeroviews of Sydney, taken from the "Vimy" by Capt. Frank Hurley. Condition good for its age. 16. Christian Morgensterns Grotesken Hans Reyersbach & Christian Morgenstern 1925 Published by Kurt Enoch, Hamburg. SIGNED by Reyersbach and numbered 338 17. The Vanishing American Zane Grey. Publisher Harper and Brothers 1925 “This novel was one of the first which portrayed the harsh treatment of American government agencies towards Native Americans. When the novel was first published serially in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922, the magazine was deluged by angry letters from religious groups and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.” FIRST EDITION Page 2 of 9 18. Early Explorers in Australia From the Log Books and Journals, including the Diary of Allan Cunningham, Botanist from 1/3/1817 to 19/11/1818 1925 Ida Lee. Publisher Methuen. FIRST EDITION. 19. Twenty Years Among Primitive Papuans William Bromilow. Publisher Epworth Press 1929 FIRST EDITION Condition good, B&W photographs by the author 20. The Little Green Road to Fairyland Annie R Rentoul & Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Publisher A&C Black 1932 Cover grubby, but binding square and tight. 21. The Log of MAGPIE, Aug 8 – Sept 7 1932, Cruise To the Humber and Wash K.A. Crowther; R Elliott, P Morrill, R Rigby & L.B. Winter An unpublished record of a Hillyard cutter, on a four-week cruise. An engaging story of wrestling the little boat to a satisfying conclusion. With some newspaper clippings and postcards. 22. Australian Chivalry Edited by J. Treloar, Director of Australian War Memorial. 1933 Reproductions in Colour and Duotone of Official War Paintings. FIRST EDITION. An impressive volume, all illustrations tipped in, condition very good. 23. The Honey and Pollen Flora of New South Wales William A. Goodacre. Publisher DH Paisley, Govt. Printer 1938 Well illustrated with photographs and drawings. 24. Cyaniding for Gold Ion Idriess. Publisher Angus & Robertson 1939 FIRST EDITION. Fold out tables and diagrams Unclipped dust jacket. Rare. 25. Bomber’s Moon – London in the Blitzkrieg Negley Farson. Illust. Tom Purvis. Publisher Victor Gollancz 1941 FIRST EDITION 26. The Darkening Ecliptic, in Angry Penguins Ern Malley. Publishers Reed and Harris. 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the Australian Poet ERN MALLEY. FIRST EDITION in the very scarce original Angry Penguins issue, of the poems that constituted one of the great literary hoaxes of the (20th) century. Angry Penguins is a quarto sized magazine, with a coloured Sidney Nolan illustration to the cover. The extreme rarity of this particular issue is apparently due, at least partially, to the impounding of many copies by the police, who were at the time progressing an obscenity trial relating to Harris' publications. The magazine is No. 368 of a limited edition of 1000, and is in good condition. 27. Twenty-Four Reproductions in Colour from Original Oil Paintings Elioth Gruner: Foreword by Norman Lindsay. Publisher The Shepherd Press 1947 Limited edition of 2000 copies, this being 1747. Page 3 of 9 The tipped in prints in this volume are of the highest quality. 28. Adventure in Watercolour Kenneth Macqueen. Publisher Legend Press 1948 FIRST EDITION, limited to 1,100copies, SIGNED by the artist, with a biographical summary and an explanation of technique by the artist himself. High quality coloured prints, tipped in. bookplate by Adrian Feint. 29. Expedition to Earth Arthur C. Clarke. Publisher Sidgwick & Jackson 1954 FIRST EDITION. The first collection of short stories by Arthur C Clarke. SIGNED. 30. Cruise Guide to Sydney Harbour, Publisher H. E. C. Robinson P/L c. 1955 31. The Body Snatchers Jack Finney. Publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode 1955 FIRST EDITION 32. The Last Cannibals Jens Bjerre. Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister 1956 Publisher Michael Joseph Limited, London. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 33. My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell. Publisher Rupert Hart-Davis 1956 FIRST EDITION, first printing, with dust jacket. 34. The Log from the Sea of Cortez John Steinbeck. Publisher William Heinemann Gt Britain 1958 This volume contains 2 works: The Sea of Cortez is the story of an expedition for scientific material. About Ed Ricketts, a fascinating description of Steinbeck’s dear friend, “scientist, philosopher eccentric”. This story is of course told in Steinbeck's customary gripping clarity. FIRST UK EDITION. A little grubby, but neat and square 35 Inside the Atom Isaac Asimov. Illustrator John Bradford 1958 Published by Abelard-Schuman, FIRST REVISED EDITION Asimov is famous in two spheres: seminal science fiction, and nuclear physics. 36. From Russia, With Love Ian Fleming. Publisher Jonathan Cape. 1958 First published April 1957, this reprint published 1958. Unclipped, clean, tight. 37. Goldfinger Ian Fleming. Publisher Jonathan Cape. 1959 FIRST EDITION. 2nd impression, unclipped dust jacket, discoloured on top edge only, clean, tight. 38. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Ian Fleming. Publisher Jonathan Cape. 1963 FIRST EDITION, foxing on top edge, otherwise clean, tight. Page 4 of 9 39. You Only Live Twice Ian Fleming. Publisher Jonathan Cape. 1964 FIRST EDITION with very good unclipped dust jacket 40. The Man With The Golden Gun Ian Fleming. Publisher Jonathan Cape. 1965 FIRST EDITION with very good unclipped dust jacket, clean, tight. 41. Octopussy and The Living Daylights Ian Fleming. Publisher Jonathan Cape. 1966 FIRST EDITION/1st Printing. First state of dust jacket, black rear cover, unclipped 42. Remarks on a passage to Botany Bay 1787-1792: A First Fleet Journal James Scott, Sergeant of Marines 1963 Published by the Public Library of New South with Angus and Robertson under the terms of Sir William Dixson's will viz "must conform as closely as possible to the original, preserving all spelling mistakes and alterations”. The author Scott, was an "uneducated" person, and the Foundation felt that such unimproved expression could more closely represent the reality the writer was experiencing. Condition good. 43 The Camellias Beryl Leslie Urquhart (Editor) With 20 reproductions from paintings by Paul Jones. Publisher The Leslie Urquhart Press, Sussex, FIRST EDITION 1964 44. The Looking-Glass War John le Carre.