BOOKFARE 8 The newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers
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Cover: Arthur de Tourcey Collingridge. The Great Balloon Explosion in Sydney— Scene in Palmer Street. 1881. Hand-coloured engraving, from the Illustrated Sydney News. (Antique Print & Map Room. www.antiqueprintroom.com.)
BOOKFARE The newsletter of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers
October 2013
Yes, folks. It’s Book Fair season! Map Collecting: The Significance of the Spice Trade for the ANZAAB’s 40th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair Charting of the Australian Continent. Presented by went off with a bang in July in Melbourne and now Louis Kissajukian, proprietor of the Antique Print it’s Sydney’s turn. The Harbour City hasn’t seen Room, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney. Tuesday this much excitement since Monsieur L’Estrange 29th October at 6pm. ended his ballooning career in a spectacular fireball The venue for both talks is the Friends Room over Woolloomooloo in 1881. (Mitchell Wing), State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Sydney will host ANZAAB’s 41st Australian Antiquarian Book Fair from November 8 to 10. For more information, visit: With twenty-three leading national and www.sydneyrarebookfair.com international booksellers exhibiting, the Fair will showcase a world-class collection of antiquarian and rare books, maps, prints, photographs, autographs, manuscripts, memorabilia and related items, priced from $30 to in excess of $100,000. Highlights will include a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first illustrations of the koala and a rare Chinese export trade album from the 1800s. So kit yourself out in your best book fossicking gear and join the human stampede headed to the Roundhouse at the University of New South Wales, Kensington Campus, Sydney. (Directions available at www.unswroundhouse.com/about/ location/). More exciting news Friday 8th November 6pm–9pm Somerset House Books is opening retail Saturday 9th November 10am–5pm premises in Sydney under the name of ‘Love Vintage Books’ at 563 Willoughby Sunday 10th November 10am–5pm Road, Willoughby. All being well, the Admission $10. Complimentary tickets available at shop should be open by the end of www.sydneyrarebookfair.com/about.htm November. Contact Margaret Dunstan for more information. Ph: (02) 9699 3830 ______To coincide with the Fair, ANZAAB will also Douglas Stewart Fine Books has also present two free talks at the State Library of New opened new retail premises. You can now South Wales: visit Doug and his crew at 720 High A Journey Through the Rare Books Associated with Street, Armadale, in Melbourne. Visit Norman Lindsay. Presented by Rodney Kent—one Doug’s website for a taste of what you’ll of the largest private collectors of Norman Lindsay find there: www.douglasstewart.com.au material. Wednesday 23rd October at 6pm.
Exhibitors, Sydney Rare Book Fair 2013
Addison Publications Douglas Stewart Fine Books Pty Ltd [email protected] [email protected] www.addisonpublications.com www.douglasstewart.com.au 44 (0)794 194 5220 (03) 9066 0200 9 Upper Addison Gardens, Kensington, London 720 High Street, Armadale, VIC, 3143 W14 8AL, U.K. Full Circle Andrew Isles Natural History Books [email protected] [email protected] www.fullcircle.com.au www.andrewisles.com (03) 9819 4042 (03) 9510 5750 59 Church Street, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122 Rear of 115 Greville Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181 Grant’s Bookshop Ankh Antiquarian Books [email protected] [email protected] www.grantsbookshop.com.au ankhantiquarianbooks.com.au (03) 9822 2170 (03) 9888 1990 Rear 909 High Street, Armadale, VIC, 3143 P.O. Box 133, Darling, VIC, 3145 Harbeck Rare Books Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints [email protected] [email protected] www.harbeck.com.au www.antipodean.com (07) 3843 0556 (845) 424 3867 P.O. Box 1610, Carindale, QLD, 4152 P.O. Box 189, Cold Spring 10516 N.Y., U.S.A. Josef Lebovic Gallery Antique Bookshop & Curios [email protected] [email protected] www.joseflebovicgallery.com www.antiquebookshop.com.au (02) 9663 4848 (02) 9966 9925 103a Anzac Parade (cnr Duke St), Kensington, NSW, Level 1/328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, NSW, 2033 2065 Kay Craddock – Antiquarian Bookseller Pty Ltd Antique Print & Map Room [email protected] [email protected] www.kaycraddock.com www.antiqueprintroom.com (03) 9654 8506 (02) 9267 4355 The Assembly Hall Building, 156 Collins Street, Shops 7–11, Level 2, Queen Victoria Building, Melbourne, VIC, 3000 455 George Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books Asia Bookroom [email protected] [email protected] www.hincebooks.com.au www.asiabookroom.com (03) 9809 1367 (02) 6251 5191 P.O. Box 1178, Hartwell, VIC, 3124 Unit 2, 1–3 Lawry Place, Macquarie, ACT, 2614 Littera Scripta Cornstalk Bookshop [email protected] [email protected] www.litterascripta.com.au www.cornstalk.com.au 0409 020 768 (02) 9660 4889 18 Mitchell Street, Baringhup, VIC, 3463 112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, 2037
Louella Kerr Books Sebra Prints [email protected] [email protected] www.louellakerrbooks.com.au www.sebraprints.com.au (02) 9569 0156 (03) 9809 0222 17 Palace Street, Petersham, NSW, 2049 402 Burke Road, Camberwell, VIC, 3124
Mark’s Book Barn Somerset House Books [email protected] [email protected] 0417 065 089 www.somersethousebooks.com.au 215 Homer Street, Earlwood, NSW, 2206 (02) 9699 3830 P.O. Box 1305, Potts Point, NSW, 2011 Out of Print Books [email protected] Tim McCormick www.outofprint.com.au [email protected] (02) 9718 9262 www.mccormickbooks.com.au 179 Canterbury Road, Canterbury, NSW, 2193 (02) 9363 5383 92 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW, 2025 Robert Muir Old & Rare Books [email protected] www.muirbooks.com (08) 9386 5842 69 Broadway, Nedlands, WA, 6009
F. Mason. Whaling at Twofold Bay. Hand-coloured engraving. 1871. From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News. (Antique Print & Map Room. www.antiqueprintroom.com.) A selection of what will be available at the 41st ANZAAB Australian Antiquarian Book Fair, Sydney, November 8-10
TWO SUPERB HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS The Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) has been in the news again recently, with a biologist’s report suggesting that it is indeed feasible that the creatures may still exist in Tasmania. Full Circle will exhibit John Gould’s two superb, hand-coloured lithographs from his Mammals of Australia published in parts 1845–63. Full Circle will also bring a selection of prints from the same work, together with Gould’s The Birds of Australia and the full complement of plates from his A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia (a series of head studies issued in 1837, his first publication on the Australian fauna). Also on offer will be an interesting selection of prints of Australian flora and fauna, some of which are early and rare; topographical views depicting Sydney and environs from the Full figure: $25,000 Baudin expedition, Hyacinthe de Bougainville, Captain Head: $8,500 Wallis &c.; and a variety of early charts and maps of New South Wales. Full Circle 59 Church Street, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122 Ph: (03) 9819 4042 [email protected] www.fullcircle.com.au
PARROT-SHAPED BOOK FROM RARE SYDNEY SERIES Sunny South Series. Sydney: John Sands, November 1931. Colour-illustrated card wrappers in the shape of a parrot, a little marking. Muir 7214. $1,000 A parrot-shaped book from this rare Sydney series. One in a series of about four untitled shape books, the verse unsigned, issued by Sands during the Depression, undated but copyright 1931.
RARE EARLY EPHEMERA OF FREE MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA Emigration. For Sydney, Direct, the fine fast-sailing first-class Ship, Wilmot, 687 Tons Register,—Coppered & Copper-fastened, Ninian Miller, Commander, Lying in the St. Katharine’s Dock. [London: 1841]. Printed card, single vertical fold, with related one-page letter and envelope. $650 A printed advertising card for the Wilmot, to sail for Sydney in January 1841. With an accompanying letter, 4 January, from E. H. Greene to his sister in Surrey. Rare early ephemera of free migration to Australia. In the following year, the Wilmot sustained serious damage in a collision on the Thames.
RARE CHILDREN’S GAME Rongeat, A. An Amusing and Instructive Geography Dedicated to the Youth of England. The names of the principal cities in the world, their situation, population & distance from London. London: Ackermann & Co., n.d. [c.1846]. $4,600 Roan slipcase containing ten double-sided gilt- edged lithographed and hand-coloured cards, plus ‘Explanation’ sheet, housed in original roan slipcover, the original pastedown pictorial label is also coloured (now slightly darkened), all in fine state. One map shows New Holland, and the borders of South Australia. Another card lists ‘Sidney, capital of the British Colony in New Holland’. A delightful early game in excellent condition.
Kenneth Hince Old & Fine Books P.O. Box 1178, Hartwell, VIC, 3124 Ph: (03) 9809 1367 [email protected] www.hincebooks.com.au
A SUPERB COPY Perry, George. Arcana, or, The museum of natural history: containing the most recent discovered objects embellished with coloured plates... Vol. I [all published]. London: Printed by George Smeeton for James Stratford, [1810]–1811. 84 hand-coloured engraved plates with tissue-guards and accompanying text leaves. Contemporary full calf and coloured label, expertly rebacked. Rare. $55,000 A work of substantial importance on early Australian zoology with sixteen Australian animals figured including the first illustrations and descriptions of the Koala and Brolga. ‘The Arcana is technically interesting too, as its glowing plates were printed with variously coloured inks to suppress their outlines (Petit). A survey of known copies identifies 32 copies of which only 13 are complete and 24 are in institutions. Ferguson 524. Nissen 3133. Wood p. 517.
Andrew Isles Natural History Books Rear of 115 Greville Street, Prahran, VIC, 3181 Ph: (03) 9510 5750 [email protected] www.andrewisles.com
PRE-RAPHAELITE BOOK COLLECTION 1846–1905 Collection of 20 books in 27 volumes plus two sets of periodicals. This unique collection provides a significant illustrated reference on the work of Pre- Raphaelite artists. A majority of the books are sumptuously printed and bound, and contain extensive illustrations. The Pre-Raphaelites published a periodical, The Germ, only four issues of which came out in 1850. This collection contains the rare first edition, as well as the subsequent limited edition reprint from 1898. The richness of this collection lies in the abundant illustrations, particularly the photogravures which reproduce the paintings to a very high standard. $110,000
LETTER BY MAGICIAN HARRY HOUDINI’S WIFE BEATRICE DESCRIBING HIS DEATH, AND PORTRAIT OF HARRY AND BEATRICE HOUDINI, 1925-1926 Handwritten letter on photogravure letterhead with silver gelatin photograph, both signed & dated by Beatrice Houdini in ink. Photograph is inscribed ‘To Mr and Mrs E. A. Dearn from Beatrice and Harry Houdini. Dec. 1926. N.Y.C.’. Edwin A. Dearn, performer and magician, was a member of The Magic Circle in London. From England he eventually made his way to Shanghai, living and performing there for about 25 years. During the early 1950s, he fled China to escape Communist rule, moving to Sydney where he remained until his death in 1980. Provenance: Dearn estate. $16,500
Josef Lebovic Gallery 103a Anzac Parade (cnr Duke St), Kensington, NSW, 2033 Ph: (02) 9663 4848 [email protected] www.joseflebovicgallery.com ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LECTERN BIBLE LEAF A very large illuminated manuscript Lectern Bible leaf, c.1300, including passages from Exodus concerning the design of the Ark of the Covenant, Moses on Mount Sinai, and the Ten Commandments. $6,600 THE SHIP OF FOOLS ‘Of Greed’. One of several incunable leaves we will be bringing from the famous work by Sebastian Brant, The Ship of Fools, dated 1498. $295
Littera Scripta 18 Mitchell Street, Baringhup, VIC, 3463 Ph: 0409 020 768 [email protected] www.litterascripta.com.au
JANE AUSTEN’S NOVELS & LETTERS Austen, Jane. The Novels. The text based on collation of the early editions by R. W. Chapman. With notes, indexes and illustrations from contemporary sources. 5 volumes. [Together with] Jane Austen’s Letters to Her Sister Cassandra and Others. Collected and edited by R. W. Chapman. 2 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923, 1932. First editions thus. 7 volumes in total. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, paper spine labels. Small owner bookplates. A fine set of the large paper edition of 1,000 (950 for sale). Keynes 40. $5,500
Louella Kerr will bring to Sydney an assortment of fine and unusual books. Literary offerings include some Seamus Heaney limited, signed editions; a very fine set of the large paper, limited, Chapman edition of the novels and letters of Jane Austen; and some fine Fanfrolico Press items including the first book of the press, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, translated by Jack Lindsay and the only bound book to be issued under the Sydney imprint. There will also be a varied and interesting collection of books, programmes and posters on theatre and film, including an almost complete run of The Play Pictorial (from 1902 to 1937). Additionally on offer will be a collection of books by the French photographer Cartier-Bresson, and some original photographs by Australian photographers Max and Rex Dupain, and David Potts.
A BEAUTIFUL SET The Play Pictorial. An Illustrated Monthly Journal. Vol. 1, No. 1 (third edition, 1902) to Vol. 71, No. 425 (1937). 65 issues uniformly bound in 58 volumes. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH Lacks volumes 34, 43, 46, 49, 58 & 59. David Potts. [Rabbit Trapper 1947.] Complete with Index for Nos. 1–446. Original silver gelatin photograph, London, 1902–1937. Folio, decorated signed on the rear ‘David Potts 1994’. cloth gilt, cloth. Small piece cut from $550 one volume. Very good. $1,950
Louella Kerr Books 17 Palace Street, Petersham, NSW, 2049 Ph: (02) 9569 0156 [email protected] www.louellakerrbooks.com.au Kay Craddock will bring to Sydney two important early accounts of New South Wales: John Oxley’s Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales; and a complete set of William Romaine Govett’s 1836–37 articles Sketches of New South Wales. Australian artwork includes a 1964 pencil portrait of Barry Humphries by Leslie van der Sluys, accompanied by a letter with self-portrait sketch by Humphries, and books by Donald Friend and Norman Lindsay. Also represented will be private press, books about books, and literature ranging from first editions of Thomas Hardy to B. S. Johnson’s experimental novel The Unfortunates, and some visually striking examples of Australian crime pulp fiction. Militaria, nineteenth-century science, and sport books will also feature, including early golf books, and the sumptuously produced official Melbourne Bid for the 1956 Olympic Games. Early printed items include a 1481 incunable printed in Venice. Another feature will be several handsome bindings from London’s Chelsea Bindery, including deluxe editions signed by Arthur Rackham and Kay Nielsen, a signed first edition of Gone with the Wind, and a splendid first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany’s which incorporates six genuine diamonds in the binding design.
ONE OF 500 COPIES WITH INLAID DIAMONDS Oxley, John. Journals of Two Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (New Expeditions into the Interior of New York: Random House, 1958). First edition. South Wales, undertaken by order of $5,000 the British Government in the years Bound by The Chelsea Bindery, the design 1817–1818. (London: John embellished with six genuine diamonds (inlaid Murray, 1820). First edition. into the tiara, earrings and necklace). A striking $5,000 designer binding, presented within a custom- The first detailed description of made fully lined black velvet drawstring bag the interior of New South Wales. with decorative bead fastening.
Kay Craddock – Antiquarian Bookseller Pty Ltd 156 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Ph: (03) 9654 8506 [email protected] www.kaycraddock.com
Local historians will find plenty of interest at Somerset House Books. Margaret Dunstan will be bringing ephemera and books on New South Wales, and Sydney city, harbour and suburbs. She will also be offering works on the art and culture of indigenous Australians including Nomads of the Australian Desert by Mountford (Adelaide: Rigby, 1976) which was suppressed soon after publication. For lovers of Australian art there will be titles on Fairweather, Hilder and Dobell, including William Dobell by James Gleeson (London: Thames & Hudson, 1964) signed by Gleeson and Dobell. Collectors of Lindsay family material will find novels, A UNIQUE ITEM FOR KEEN COLLECTORS collected works and catalogues. A highlight is OF EARLY AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Fisher’s Ghost, an historical comedy written by Brain, Paula. Nobody’s Fairy. Being a story with illustrations. Adelaide: Douglas Stewart (Sydney: Wentworth Press, Vardon & Sons Ltd, [1921]. Stiffened card wraps, stitched spine with 1960) and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. cord tie; front cover pictorial label. 10 tipped in coloured plates and This is a numbered, limited edition of 200 marginal drawings. Muir 938. copies signed by Stewart, Lindsay and Walter Rather foxed, with a gift inscription on the title-page and previous Stone. owner’s details on the front cover (verso), but overall in good condition All this and Somerset House Books’ usual for its age. ‘Nobody’s Fairy’ is the child of an illicit relationship between fine assortment of children’s literature and a fairy and a human. Beautiful and a lover of beauty, she is released into novelty titles, including some historical items the human world to bring about idealism. Maurice Saxby (Offered to which clearly indicate how our attitudes have Children, 1998) calls this work a ‘philosophical treatise for children in the changed. guise of a fairy story’.
Somerset House Books P.O. Box 1305, Potts Point, NSW, 2011 Ph: (02) 9699 3830 [email protected] www.somersethousebooks.com.au FROM THE COLLECTION OF Tim McCormick will also be bringing NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS to Sydney a ‘piece of the true BIBLIOPHILE HENRI LEDOUX cross’—a section of oak from Cook’s A Savage of New Holland. Pen, ink and wash ship Endeavour—with an old label after a sketch done in New South Wales attesting to its origin; a collection of by Arago, c.1820s. From the collection of early photos of Aborigines, including nineteenth-century Paris bibliophile Henri a copulatory scene snapped by Ledoux, with his monogram. Ledoux’s Spencer or Gillan; and a good collection was particularly rich in works collection of the First Fleeters and relating to Freycinet and the French explorers. Voyages.
Tim McCormick 92 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW, 2025 Ph: (02) 9363 5383 [email protected] www.mccormickbooks.com.au
RARE & EXQUISITE DELUXE FOLIO Preston, Margaret. Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929. Sydney: Art in Australia, 1929. Folding white buckram clamshell box, gilt-lettered title-label (scuffed, front joint split), original ribbon ties, containing: 1. A black card folio, inside which is a copy of the publication Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929, illustrated wrappers, nine black and white plates numbered 1–9, limited to 250 numbered copies, printed by Percy Green at the Green Press, Sydney, very fine. 2. An original colour woodcut ‘Mosman Bridge 1927’, signed in pencil, tipped on the upper margin to a backing card, very fine. 3. Thirteen folded cards numbered plates 10–23, each with a colour reproduction of Margaret Preston paintings. 4. An additional folding card portfolio titled ‘Margaret Preston Recent Paintings Duplicate set of Colour Plates’ housing 14 colour reproductions. The printer’s copy, with Perce Green of the Green Press’ business card pasted to the inside of the black card folio, and with a typed note stating ‘This Margaret Preston Book was designed in 1929 in the blackest face procurable at that time, and one that harmonised with the contrasty [sic] wood-cuts. As this is part of the only set I possess, will you kindly return’. Produced at the height of Preston’s popularity, this exquisite folio was issued with one of two woodcuts: ‘Mosman Bridge’ as here (Butler 113) or ‘Flowers in Jug’ (Butler 137). It is assumed that each was printed in an edition of 125, but ‘it is not known if the full edition was completed’ (Butler p. 137). The present copy is complete, and is a superb association copy. $24,000
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY Lindsay, Norman and Jack Lindsay. A Homage to Sappho. Made by Norman and Jack Lindsay. London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Vellum over bevelled boards with title and Lindsay decoration in gold, all edges gilt, illustrated with 15 original etchings by Norman Lindsay. Limited to 70 signed copies. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper in Norman Lindsay’s hand ‘To Harry Chaplin, with Norman Lindsay’s sincere regards’. The only example of this publication signed by the artist Norman Lindsay known in private hands. One other signed example recorded (the Wingrove copy in Monash University). One of the finest Australian private press books, a beautiful production. Arnold 19. $18,500
Douglas Stewart Fine Books Pty Ltd 720 High Street, Armadale, VIC, 3143 Ph: (03) 9066 0200 [email protected] www.douglasstewart.com.au PARTICULARLY SCARCE Commonwealth of Australia. Sale of Expropriated Properties in the Territory of New Guinea and Papua. Four volumes bound in one with First Group (1925), Second Group (1926), Third Group (1927) and List of New Guinea Properties Sold (1928). Black & white illustrations and five folding coloured maps. Bound in half calf with titling labels on spine. A very good copy.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (ROBERT DICKERSON’S WIFE) & ALSO SIGNED BY ROBERT DICKERSON Dickerson, Jennifer. Robert Dickerson. Against the Tide. Sydney: Queen Street Fine A BOUND RUN Art, 1994. First edition. The Book Collector. A bound run from Vol. 1 (1952) to Vol. 24 (1975). Percy Muir’s set with Original boards. Dust-jacket. his booklabel in Vol. 1. Also with the Index 1952–61 volume, uniformly bound. 25 volumes Profusely illustrated in colour in all. Each volume bound in red buckram retaining the original wrappers. A fine set. Shown and black & white. Fine. here are 8 vols and the index from the set.
The Antique Bookshop & Curios Level 1/328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, NSW, 2065 Ph: (02) 9966 9925 [email protected] www.antiquebookshop.com.au
TIBET The International Position of Tibet. Typescript in wrappers and metal clasp binder, title-page lettered in red, black & white typescript leaves printed single sided. Very light wear at corners. Government of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. No place of publication in English. 1959. The three chapters in this work—‘Historical Survey’, ‘The Position of Tibet in 1950’, ‘A Summary of the Tibetan Case’—are followed by appendices which give the text of five conventions and one agreement relating to Tibet. Published by the Government of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the year of the Tibetan Uprising and the year the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Tibet. $350
A VERY GOOD COPY OF AN IMPORTANT CHINESE LANGUAGE WORK Marshman, J. Elements of Chinese Grammar with a Preliminary Dissertation on the Characters, and the Colloquial Medium of the Chinese, and an Appendix. Containing the Ta-Hyoh of Confucius with a Translation. Professionally rebound marbled papered boards, leather spine with contrasting leather title-label gilt. Modern endpapers, lacks one blank preliminary leaf. Occasional light browning, closed tear from margin one leaf, some pencilling including some circling of words in red pencil. A little minor damage to some letters on a few leaves where the pencilling has been partially removed. Half title annotated. Largely the text is very clean. Tipped to the upper margin of one leaf is a mss. Chinese bill for a lotion. Written in Chinese characters, the bill has been annotated in English: ‘I send this as a curious specimen of the way the Chinese make out a bill and the number of words they use to export one thing. Yrs T. C?th’. The characters giving the name of the item being sold are translated into English as ‘White/ Body/Stink/Cow/Oil/Tub?One’, this translation is accompanied by a note which remarks this is not a very desirable lotion! Another note comments on the price. Large paper copy. Lust 1020. Cordier 1661. Lowendahl 775. Diehl 85. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1814. Scarce on the market. $6,500 The Serampore Mission Press was the first press to prepare movable metal types of Chinese characters. In 1814 two editions of Elements of Chinese Grammar... were printed at the Mission Press at Serampore. This copy belongs to the edition (presumably, though not stated, a revised edition) with a total of 326 pages, contrasting with the other edition of 317 pages. The two editions vary in a number of other ways which are detailed in Diehl. These, often very small, differences include the use of Chinese characters on the title-page of this edition whereas the other edition has none; the inclusion of a two page errata in this edition but not the other, etc.
Asia Bookroom Unit 2, 1–3 Lawry Place, Macquarie, ACT, 2614 Ph: (02) 6251 5191 [email protected] www.asiabookroom.com THE PRINCE OF PICKPOCKETS Barrington, George. A Voyage to New South Wales: With a description of the country; the manners, customs, religion & the natives, in the vicinity of Botany Bay. London: Sold by Symonds, 1795. Half leather with papered boards. A good copy; previous owner’s bookplate tipped to inside cover. Chapters X–XII wrongly numbered; p. 105 mis -numbered. Ferguson 205. $4,000
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM Dickens, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Clock. Illustrations by G. Cattermole and H. K. Browne. London: Chapman & Hall, 1840–1841. First edition. Two volume set, half- leather and marbled boards, with the three title-pages. Some wear to bindings and a couple of spots of foxing. $1,750 Bound into two volumes (originally issued in three volumes) but retains the three title- pages. Tipped in to the front of Vol. I is an original albumen printed photograph of Charles Dickens taken by George Herbbert Watkins and stamped by him. The photo was taken between April and June 1858. Original albumen photographs of Dickens are rare.
Cornstalk Bookshop 112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, 2037 Ph: (02) 9660 4889 [email protected] www.cornstalk.com.au
THURSDAY ISLAND A photograph album of 43 albumen prints of Thursday Island and North Queensland. c.1895. Half morocco album, gilt fleurons on spine, gilt title ‘Thursday Island’ on upper board. Boards a bit warped and faded, some foxing to mount boards, the photographs in good to very good condition, some fading. The photographs with good to very good tonality. Of the 43 photographs c.25 are of Thursday Island, including the 11 large format ones (26 x 36 cm). These large images are captioned in pencil below: Victoria Parade (3); Douglas Street; Town from Cemetery Road; East End from Police Barracks; Government Jetty; Friday Island Quarantine Station & Leper Station; Falls at Prince of Wales Island; Smyth’s Station at Hammond Island; Goode Island Station. A group of five photographs shows two pearling luggers and pearl divers (captioned ‘Divers—Goode Island’). The view of the Friday Island Leper Station and Smyth’s Station at Hammond Island are particularly noteworthy. $5,000
AN UNRECORDED ADVANCE COPY Nolan, Sidney (provenance): Charles Mountford. The Tiwi, their Art, Myth and Culture. London & Melbourne: Phoenix House/Georgian House, 1958. In orig. titling wrappers with title in manuscript on the spine. Some creasing and pencil marks to wrappers, a few manuscript annotations on the plate after p. 144, page 148, and two of the last blank leaves. $1,650 An apparently unrecorded advance copy of the British issue in orig. grey titling wrappers. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper—‘To Sydney [sic] Nolan with all good wishes from C. P. Mountford’—and with a few pencil annotations, presumably in Nolan’s hand.
Harbeck Rare Books P.O. Box 1610, Carindale, QLD, 4152 Ph: (07) 3843 0556 [email protected] www.harbeck.com.au LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED Yeats, W. B. The Poems of W. B. Yeats. London: Macmillan and Co., 1949. 2 volume boxed set. Number 54 of a limited edition of 350 numbered copies for sale, signed by W. B. Yeats. Before his death Yeats had been revising the text for this edition, of which he had corrected the proofs and signed the numbered page in Vol. I. The outbreak of the Second World War came at a crucial stage of production and, with the austere conditions war imposed, Macmillan decided to postpone the production until it was possible to undertake the quality of work originally planned. Printed by Clark of Edinburgh in Fournier typeface on Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid paper which was specially manufactured by John Dickinson. James Burn provided the buckram binding. Scarce item.
FINE HALF-LEATHER BINDING Pugh. A Year of Orchids. One of the 55 signed and numbered copies. Fine half-leather binding with gilt orchid to FULL LEATHER BINDING boards, contained in very good Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman slipcase. Very scarce. Geography. 2 volume set. [Together with] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Full leather binding with numerous woodcuts. Published by John Murray in 1873 and 1875 respectively.
Out of Print Books 179 Canterbury Road, Canterbury, NSW, 2193 Ph: (02) 9718 9262 [email protected] www.outofprint.com.au
AUSTRALIA’S FOSSIL HERITAGE Jack, R. L. and R. Etheridge. The Geology and Palaeontology of Queensland and New Guinea. Brisbane: James Charles Beal, Government Printer, 1892. 3 volumes—text, plates and maps (6), as issued in green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to spines except for map case which has a damaged label along the spine. A little soiling, but overall good to very good. $2,500
PEAT’S FERRY RAILWAY ACCIDENT Report of 1887–8 of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales on Peat’s Ferry Railway Accident. Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1888. 148 pages plus 6 plans in paper covers as issued. Good to very good condition. GERMAN MOTORCYCLES $300 N.S.U. Motor Co. Ltd of Portland St. London, W. Catalogue of N.S.U. Motor-Cycles 1910. 16 pages—one model illustrated and Mark Burgess of Mark’s Book Barn will be bringing some interesting local described per page. Marketed in Sydney by suburban and country N.S.W. histories, railway books dating back to the 1870s, Alphonso Brown of Pitt St., Sydney (sticker books and photos of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, early mining books and in top right hand corner). Excellent plenty of unusual ephemeral items. condition. $300
Mark’s Book Barn 215 Homer Street, Earlwood, NSW, 2206 Ph: 0417 065 089 [email protected] UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT Durack, Mary & Elizabeth. ‘Piccaninny Play’. c.1942. 20 page manuscript, ink and watercolour, each describes a different Kimberley animal or phenomenon, including birds, kangaroos, whirlwind, fire etc. Shows the brilliant collaboration between the two sisters.
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175 YEARS OF THE STATE LIBRARY Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide. 30 October at 11am. Travel back into over 175 years of State Library history with Carolyn Spooner, as she presents a slideshow telling the colourful story of the Books Exhibition space, Level 1, ISB Wing, Sir buildings, the collections and the people. Hear Louis Matheson Library, Clayton campus, Monash about the key role of Robert Gouger in 1834; Sir University, Melbourne. More information: Josiah Symon’s gentleman’s library; the Thomas monash.edu/library/collections/exhibitions/ Hardy wine library; and the great pastoral recent-acquisitions7/ benefactor, John Andrew Tennant Mortlock. Morning tea provided. More information: http:// www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=746
OTAGO PHYSIOTHERAPY GRADUATES Reaching Out: Celebrating 100 Years of Otago Physiotherapy Graduates, 1913–2013. Central University Library, University of Otago. 27 September–13 December 2013. The new exhibition at the de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, continues the 100th anniversary celebrations of the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Otago. The exhibition highlights “TAKE TWO FRESH EGGS” contributions by some of School’s graduates who An exhibition of Cookbooks and Kitchenalia Relating to have made significant national and international the Western District of Victoria. Hamilton Art Gallery. contributions to the development of physiotherapy 16 October 2013–26 January 2014. and a diverse range of areas in health, including Celebrated local chef Dan Hunter will officially Sara Drum, Hopin Lee, Helen Littleworth and open Hamilton Art Gallery’s ‘“Take Two Fresh Bunny Thompson. De Beer Gallery, Special Eggs”: Western District Cookbooks and Collections, 1st floor, Central University Library, Kitchenalia from 1834’ at a gourmet event University of Otago, Dunedin. More information: featuring regional fine food and wine on the 16th www.otago.ac.nz/library/SpecialCollections/ October. exhibitions.html In curating this exhibition, artist and academic Kate McDonald, with Roz Greenwood RECENT ACQUISITIONS SEVEN of Roz Greenwood Old and Rare Books in Recent Acquisitions Seven. An exhibition of items from the Dunkeld, have tapped into an amazing archive of Rare Books Collection. Monash University Library. cookery books, manuscripts and utensils, 10 October 2013–28 February 2014. discovering several important collections in the The exhibition, which includes ephemera, process. Items on display include early manuscript Australian literature and history, children’s books letters; original letterheads and shop records; an and games, cookery, travel, useful books, sheet early mechanical bread-making machine; recipe music and items from two world wars, showcases collections put together by society women as fund- two recent significant donations in particular: raisers; and major artists’ (including Norah Sandy Michell’s recent donation of the remainder Heysen’s) depiction of food in Australia. Original of her collection of cookery books, and the other photographs—of Hamilton food shops, picnics in from the late Father Ivan Page of Bendigo. Rare the paddocks, butchers’ decorative windows &c.— provide a striking visual record of the district’s State Library of New South Wales, including the culinary history. District chefs, including Dan Preservation and Digitisation units, will be offered Hunter, have contributed their own archival on the afternoon of the 20th prior to the records and menus for inclusion. The State Library commencement of the conference. The annual of Victoria has also contributed rare manuscripts meeting of the Rare Book Librarians’ Group will and books for display. Much of the material has be held on Wednesday, 20 November preceding come from the old pastoral properties which are a the conference. More information: feature of the area. More information: www.bsanz.org/conferences/ www.hamiltongallery.org/EXHIBITIONS_ Future.html DAVID SCOTT MITCHELL LECTURE 2013: THE LIFE & DEATH OF THE BOOK AUSTRALIAN BOOK COLLECTORS Dixson Room, ground floor, Mitchell Library, The second series of Australian Book Collectors, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. edited by Charles Stitz, will go to press shortly, and 18 November, 6–7.30 pm. should be available before the end of the year. It will be in two further volumes (II and III), each of Dr Rick Gekoski, writer, rare book dealer, more than 400 pages. broadcaster and academic., will discuss the place of The first volume was published in 2010, and the book in these revolutionary times. For the last the set now traces the lives and collecting careers 600 years, the printed book has been the way we of 250 bibliophiles—Australian by birth, migration read. But contemporary readers are increasingly or association—who lived and collected during the doing their reading on electronic devices. Will the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. The two new printed book survive? And if so, in what numbers, matching volumes will again be of casebound what forms, and with what content? More cloth, in a limited edition of 500, of which 5 will be information: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/events_ signed and numbered half-leather. Further details talks/events/david_scott_mitchell are available from the editor at _lecture_dr_rick_gekoski.html [email protected].
CRIME & JUSTICE FESTIVAL Presented by Reader’s Feast Bookstore, Melbourne. 15–17 November. A calendar of events where the public, writers, social commentators, judicial luminaries and the legal profession come together to celebrate and promote contemporary writings in the fields of justice and human rights, and to overlay these discussions with guest writers in the genre of crime fiction. More information: www.crimeandjusticefestival.com/ crimeandjusticefestival/Home.html MAPPING OUR WORLD
Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia. BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE DIGITAL AGE National Library of Australia, Canberra. Annual Conference, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 20–22 November. 7 November 2013–10 March 2014. The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New This remarkable exhibition brings together some of Zealand’s annual conference will be held in Sydney the world’s greatest maps, atlases, globes and this November. The theme is ‘Bibliography in the scientific instruments, many of which have never Digital Age’. Registration costs $220 and includes before been seen in the southern hemisphere, to morning and afternoon teas, and lunches, on the tell the remarkable story of how Australia came to Thursday and Friday. An opening will be held in be on the map, and reveal the history and struggle the Members Room, Mitchell Wing, on the to imagine and document the world; from the evening of the 20th. Hordern House will be earliest imaginings of the earth and the night sky hosting a reception at their premises in Potts Point through to Matthew Flinders’ landmark General on the Thursday evening. An optional tour of the Chart of Terra Australis or Australia in 1814. The exhibition will take you on a spiritual, artistic and scientific journey, showing how The book was published in 1814 and was European explorers gradually unravelled the secrets called Pieces of Ancient Poetry from Unpublished of the south land. More information: http:// Manuscripts and Scarce Books. The author was www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/mapping-our-world identified only as ‘N. Y.’ The colophon revealed that 99 copies had been printed, plus six special copies on blue paper. The copy in my hands was Feeling Appy? printed on blue paper, and was in great The International League of Antiquarian condition. The price was less than a coffee. Booksellers (ILAB) has launched a free App for The binding may have been made by lovers of rare books. The ILAB Mobile App is Charles Lewis, a celebrated nineteenth-century now available from the Apple Store and the binder who was criticised for dressing above his Android Market. Search for ‘ILAB rare books’ or station, and wearing tassels on his boots. The ‘International League of Antiquarian Booksellers’ author was John Fry. He was born in 1792, to find the free App ready to install on your became a bookseller, and at the age of 18 edited a phone. Use the App to find and get directions to book of poetry. He later expressed his regret at your nearest ILAB dealer, access the ILAB what he called his premature appearance in print. website to read about the world’s best books and Pieces of Ancient Poetry was released four years booksellers, or to find out the dates and later, when Fry was 22. It contains poems by locations of upcoming antiquarian book fairs, Donne as well as raunchy popular ballads, several lectures and exhibitions around the world. of which were censored in the book. More than www.ilab.org/eng/ilab/ILAB_App.html any other, this book set me on the road to full blown bibliomania.
HOW I BECAME A BIBLIOPHILE AND OTHER DIVERSE MATTERS Transcript of a talk given by Stuart Kells at a gathering of the Redmond Barry Society at Kay Craddock–Antiquarian Bookseller in Collins Street, Melbourne It is a pleasure to be talking to you this evening. When Dianne and Kay generously invited me to speak to the Society, many different topics came to mind. I will attempt to cover several of them: how I became a bibliophile; some highpoints of my bibliophilia, with a focus on two books of special importance to me, both of them (Courtesy Douglas Stewart Fine Books) published anonymously; how I came to write Rare; some points about Rare; and a few final Another stage in my book development remarks about the future of books. Covering all occurred in the late nineties when I joined Text these topics in 25 minutes might be difficult. We Publishing as the editorial assistant. We decided will soon see whether I can fit all these clowns to publish The Middle Parts of Fortune, a story of into one Volkswagen. soldiers’ experiences on the Western Front. The The answer to how I became a bibliophile book was out of print in Australia, and poorly is that I was always one. The first entry in my known outside literary and academic circles. It first diary is a tidy list of all the books I owned at was first published in 1929 by Peter Davies. Due the time. The bibliomania intensified in 1995 to the raw dialogue, Davies feared the book when Trinity College chapel had a book sale. I would be censored. He created a Paris imprint, was first through the door and noticed the Piazza Press, and issued a small number of immediately across the room a narrow leather copies. The following year he issued an spine with raised bands. In no time the book was expurgated edition under the title Her Privates We, in my hands and I was feeling the straight- with a striking cloth cover. grained morocco. In both editions the author was identified only as Private 19022. In fact the author was her teens, to her meticulous shop archive, and to Frederic Manning, an Australian who enlisted at her own memories. I’d like to give you three the advanced age of 34 and saw action on the examples of primary material from Kay’s archive. Somme. Manning was a fastidious writer. The first is a poem by Les Craddock. It is According to legend, Davies locked him away to simply written, but, for people who know about force him to complete the book. When it Les’s life, very moving. appeared it was a great success, earning praise from Hemmingway and T. E. Lawrence. Across the Sea In 2000 the book was out of copyright and A little girl looked o’er the sea, we decided to issue the unexpurgated version, And asked ‘Why doesn’t father come home which had never been published in Australia. To to me?’ prepare the typeset pages we used a new method A seagull flying in the sky of digitally scanning the text. Unfortunately, the Said ‘Little girlie, please don’t cry; software didn’t work, and the resulting digital version of the text was littered with errors. In I know your father’s coming soon, tracking them down I got to know the book very He might be there by next new moon; well. A few years ago I was fortunate to find a When all of this December’s passed copy of the original Piazza Press edition, and it is I think you’ll find him coming home at now a prized part of my collection. last.’ Having learnt a bit about publishing at Text, I started producing books on a small scale, And when he comes you’ll all be gay— specialising in books about books. Most recently Mum and Dad and Pat and Kay; I co-published Colin Franklin’s memoir, He’ll bring his clothes and home will stay; Obsessions and Confessions of a Book Life. In 2005 I And never, never go away. published Kay’s memoir, ‘What’s in a Name’, which was I think based on a speech Kay The second piece of primary material is delivered to the Australia Club. The memoir was from Kay’s diary of her first trip to England. Kay brief but intriguing, and I could see that there was in her early twenties, and was staying at the was a larger story to be told about a successful Fielding Hotel. Australian woman, and that it might be of wide Up early—packed—the man on the desk interest. phoned and asked if I had got some accommodation—said not to mention it to anybody there & to go down & see him in 10 mins before he signed off. I thanked him & started to dress—was just finishing my dressing when there was a knock on the door—I fastened up the buttons on my dress, left hair curlers in & opened door— it was chap from desk who hurried in & closed door!—I felt a bit uncomfortable & he just stared at me—‘Are you the young lady who wore the green frock last night?’ I said I was—he replied that he’d been so taken with my ‘looks’ that he wanted to (Courtesy Books of Kells) help me! Said he knew a man who had apartments to rent & if I’d ring him (Mr I came to see Kay to ask if she would Scampi) at 5.00 he’d give me the number— participate in the project. That first discussion he said I looked completely different then had something of the marriage proposal about it. from last night—& that make up made a Kay was seated. I pulled up a stool and sat great difference! ... he was a young chap, immediately in front of her, lowered my voice, from Egypt, who was in England on a looked into her eyes... And she said ‘I will’. Kay Teaching Scholarship—said he had night gave me access to the diaries she had kept since porter’s job to help him make money— didn’t have time to see many girls, but was municipal rates collector in Ballarat. In a humble very selective—and offered to devote what miner’s cottage he compiled a world-class time he had off duty to me! I thanked him collection of modern first editions. After a long & murmured something non-committal— negotiation Kay bought the books and they were trust me to have such things happen! delivered to her home in 147 tea chests. Her 87th catalogue featured 454 items of twentieth-century The third piece of primary material is a literature from the collection. There were five letter from a Japanese oil man. Samuel Becketts: Endgame; his ‘Three Novels’ Thanks to Frank Clune and his Ned Kelly’s Trilogy; Happy Days; How It Is; and a fine copy of Last Stand, before coming to Australia, I the first English edition of Beckett’s novel was well armed with those phrases such as Murphy in an equally fine dust wrapper. ‘as game as Ned Kelly’, ‘Ned Kelly was a gentleman’ or ‘Such is Life’ etc, etc. On the 23rd August, ’72, ten days after my arrival, there held the first Australian Antiquarian Booksellers’ Fair at Monash University. Though I hadn’t got even a slightest notion of local geography, when I saw advertisement on The Age, I decided at a glance that I should visit the fair by all means. The evening came and I duly went there by taxi all by myself scarcely knowing what was awaiting me on my way home. At the hall, I found your stand and bought a (Courtesy Kay Craddock – Antiquarian Bookseller) very good copy of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy ($15)...I spent considerably long time and To catalogue Murphy, Kay needed to set a when I came to myself, there scarcely price, but information about the market value remain other customers and I went out of was scarce. The book appeared only once in the the hall. It was moonless night and to my available book auction guides, at a modest price. astonishment, it was pitch-dark outside and Using this as the basis for a considered guess, I can’t find my whereabout. Except black Kay priced the book at $95. The catalogue was night, not a figure, street-light, vehicle was despatched, but no Australian collector or to be seen and I crawled my way nearly on bookseller ordered the book. When the catalogue all fours, with much difficulty, came to reached a select list of booksellers in Britain and Wellington Road. I waited and waited America, hell broke loose. The firm was besieged nearly an hour on roadside, until as if by a by orders from overseas dealers. Tom miracle, a vacant taxi passed by and I was Goldwasser of San Francisco’s Serendipity Books saved at last! was the lucky one who bought the Murphy: his relative proximity to Melbourne gave him a The same Japanese gentleman recalled postal advantage over his rivals from Britain and another Melbourne bookseller thus: from America’s east coast. Quite jovial and talkative, during my three The Hamilton Murphy later sold for £3500. years stay in Melbourne, whenever I visited At the time of writing Rare, that particular copy his shop, his eloquence rattled like a was on offer for £62,500. I checked the internet machine-gun and I was unable to look earlier today and it appears the Hamilton Murphy around bookshelves, reluctantly left the has been reduced, to £50,000. shop empty-handed. As a result, books Rare has been reasonably well received in coming from his shop are not so many. the book fraternity and has introduced the antiquarian book world to a wide variety of other To write Rare I took leave from my day readers. The book demonstrates that people still job, and Kay gave me a desk at the rear of her value books as physical objects, and that the shop. For me, a highlight of Rare is the story of digital revolution has not entirely laid waste to the Hamilton collection. Alex Hamilton was a traditional bookselling and publishing. I want to end with a few remarks on anxieties about the that these morphings interfere in the private and future of books. magical communication between author and Each book can be seen as an amalgam of reader. There is a risk that plain text will lose out five parts: one big idea, three crafts, and hard in the competition with more glamorous page work. The big idea is the use of symbolic fillers, and we will destroy the imaginative letterforms to link the inner lives of writer and connection of writers and readers. In my view, reader. This idea worked because writers and therefore, we should be more anxious about the readers made sympathetic and complementary threats to the big idea at the heart of the book. investments in technique and imagination. ______The three crafts are ink-craft, paper-craft and binding-craft. Ink reproduces the symbols; sheets of paper carry the ink; and leather, cloth, glue and cord bind the sheets together. All three crafts saw technical innovations over the past thousand years. Iron inks gave way to turpentines which in turn were replaced by synthetics. Wood pulp superseded rag paper and vellum. In bookbinding perhaps the biggest innovation was the paperback. The fifth element—the hard work of distribution—is how the book ultimately reaches the hands of the reader. The printing revolution of the 1450s was ‘Good as it is to inherit a library, primarily an innovation in ink-craft—a change in it is better to collect one.’ how ink was applied to the page—with Augustine Birrell secondary consequences for the other crafts and ______for distribution. The success of Gutenberg’s Bible lay in how beautifully it mimicked the THE NAME IS BOND. JAMES BOND manuscripts it replaced. The 16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography Seeing the book as a bundle of five parts has been awarded to Jon Gilbert for his helps clarify the digital book phenomenon, which outstanding work Ian Fleming. The Bibliography is upending all three crafts simultaneously—no (London: Queen Anne Press, 2012). An official more ink, paper and glue—and is transforming award ceremony will be held during the 41st the physics of distribution. The implications for Congress of the International League of printing, publishing and bookselling are massive, Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), preceded by but the changes for writers and readers have so ILAB’s International Antiquarian Book Fair, both far been less profound. in Paris in April 2014. Like Gutenberg, e-book manufacturers Discovered a terrific new site? Or have strived to imitate prior technologies. Matt want to share your favourites? cream paper is simulated, and the sensation of Send your links to turning a page is aped by animation. [email protected] and we’ll The impacts of e-books on the crafts and add them to ANZAAB’s website. distribution have led to much anxiety, but there has been less concern about the big idea. Yet that is where e-books could do most harm. When e- A visitor to Australia who has extensive experience books mix text, hypertext, sound and video this working in libraries and administration in is widely seen as an advantage of the technology. Germany is seeking temporary booktrade employ- When Gandalf meets the Balrog the e-book page ment. She currently lives in Melbourne. If you can dissolve to show Peter Jackson’s cinematic would like to get in touch please contact the Ed., interpretation of the encounter. The scope for BookFare, at [email protected] similar morphings of text and vision is infinite: Lyra consulting the alethiometer, Bond charming Letters, news, ideas and anything else you’d like to share Octopussy, Holden catching in the rye. should be addressed to the Editor, Fiona Kells, at An alternative interpretation, however, is [email protected]