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305. McCRAE DOROTHY FRANCES The Clear Call. (Patriotic poems from W.W.I.) illus. with dec. title page & text, pub. Melb. George Robinson nd.191-? or. grey illus. stiff wps. by Walter Seed 8vo.obl. pp.40. Some originally published in "The Argus" and "The Bulletin." Sunned to spine and fading into covers, small holes where item was bound, otherwise v/good.   Price: $45.00
306. McCRAE HUGH Story-Book Only. Stories personal anecdotes etc. with e/paper illus., dwgs by author t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1948 1st.ed. or. red cl. lge.8vo. pp.415. Slight shelf wear, otherwise very good copy.   Price: $35.00
307. McCUBBIN A. Quafiz. The Quatrains Of Quafiz. pub. Melbourne Alexander McCubbin n.d. c.1920 or. printed boards text printed in red/black ink 12mo. pp.38. rough-cut.   Price: $40.00
308. McCULLOUGH COLLEEN The Thorn Birds. published N.Y. Harper & Row 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. lge.8vo. pp.533. short closed tear to d/w. otherwise fine.    Price: $35.00
309. McCULLOUGH COLLEEN A Creed For The Third Millennium. pub. Syd. 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.346. signed by Colleen McCullough. v/fine.     Price: $45.00

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310. McDOUGALL J.K. The Trend Of The Ages. And Other Verses. Poems. pub. Melb. Labor Call Print 1922 or. grey stiff wrappers, cr.8vo. pp.304. silverfish damage to top of first few pages and front wrapper, otherwise very good copy, text complete and undamaged.   Price: $35.00
311. McKELLAR J.A.R. Collected Poems Of J.A.R. McKellar. pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1946 or. light blue bds, blue cloth to spine, 8vo. pp.124. The young poet who died in 1932 when only 27;  silverfish mark to rear board, sl. sunned to spine, neat inscription to front free e/paper.   Price: $35.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
312. MACARTNEY FREDERICK Furnley Maurice. (Frank Wilmot). illus. with frontis. & 6 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.102.  biography of Frank Leslie Thompson Wilmot, who wrote as Furnley Maurice, in addition to his significance as a poet, was prominent throughout the transition period from horse-and-buggy days to our own times. Macartney was a close friend of his fellow poet Frank Wilmot (1881-1942). Chip to lower of d/w. slight shelf wear else v/good.   Price: $35.00
313. MACARTNEY FREDERICK Proof Against Failure. Autobiography of a poet & critic. illus. with frontis. plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.194. Presentation copy signed by author. Near fine copy   Price: $35.00
314. MacDONALD ANNIE At The Sign Of The Southern Cross. with full page illus. by Margaret Baskerville and Douglas Richardson pub. Melb. George Robertson & Co. nd.191-? or.glt.cl. 12mo. pp.148. ex. Postal Institute Lib. else fine bright copy.    Price: $40.00

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315. MacDONALD WILLIAM JOHN Australian Songs. pub. Melb. Australasian Author's Agency 1912 or. grey wps. 12mo. pp.94. sl. water marked to front wrapper, spine sl. chipped, very good otherwise.   Price: $45.00
316. MALOUF DAVID Johnno. pub. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press 1975 1st Edition original plum boards with white and orange lettering and orange endpapers d/w. 8vo. pp.170Malouf's first novel set in Queensland. Extremely difficult to find in fine condition because the dustwrapper is very prone to fading. A lovely copy with very minor fading to the dustwrapper's spine & tiny chip to reverse of d/w. near spine, otherwise fine condition.   Price: $400.00   (See picture-press   )
317. MALOUF DAVID Fly Away Peter. pub. Lond. Chatto & Windus 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. 12mo. pp.134. v/fine.    Price: $110.00         Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
318. MALOUF DAVID Child's Play. With Eustace & The Prowler. pub. Lond. Chato & Windus 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.216. very fine, price clipped.    Price: $45.00

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319. MALOUF DAVID Harland's Half Acre. pub. Lond. Chatto & Windus 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.230.    Price: $55.00
320. MALOUF DAVID Antipodes. Stories. pub. Lond. Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.160. Very fine.   Price: $60.00
321. MALOUF DAVID Every Move You Make  pub. London & Australia Chatto & Windus. 2007 1st UK edition. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.244. Mint copy. Signed by the author.   Price: $60.00
322. MARIE MONA [Georgina Marie Tickner] Ballarat Chimes. verse. illus. with photograph of author frontispiece and dec. title page with vign. pub. Ballarat E. E. Campbell, nd.1891?  or. maroon cl., plain spine, blk.ltg. to front bd. 16mo. pp.190,26 advts. previous owner's name in nib pen to f/free e/paper, else near fine.  Price: $115.00
323. MARSHALL ALAN These Are My People. e/paper illus. & decorations by Nutter Buzacott pub. Melb. Cheshire 1944 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.208 slight w/stain to rear of d/w. otherwise a very good copy in very clean bright boards with d/w.   Price: $60.00

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324. MARSHALL ALAN These Are My People.  e/paper illus. & decorations by Nutter Buzacott pub. Melb. Cheshire 1944 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.208 Dustwrapper two long tears along spine, inscription to title page, chip in d/w. at spine, otherwise a very good copy in very clean bright boards.   Price: $35.00
325. MARSHALL ALAN These Are My People. e/paper illus. & decorations by Nutter Buzacott pub. Melb. Cheshire 1946 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.208  Signed by author " To Bernadette regards Alan Marshall Oct. 49" Long closed tears in d/w. at spine, lacks piece bottom of spine, short closed tear else very good.   Price: $50.00
326. MARSHALL ALAN Tell Us About The Turkey Jo- illus. with pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1946 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.210. dustwrapper is chipped and torn and is missing most of the rear, boards slight flecking at spine otherwise good copy.  Price: $25.00
327. MARSHALL ALAN How Beautiful Are Thy Feet. pub. Melb. the Rodney Press 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. crm.d/w. 12mo. pp.288. short closed tear to d/w. very sl. spotting, else fine.   Price: $45.00
328. MARSHALL ALAN and NOEL COUNIHAN Pull Down The Blind. with text dwgs by Noel Counihan pub. Melb. Cheshire 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.118. Author's first collection of newspaper sketches. Near fine in the slightly chipped d/w. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper.   Price: $35.00
329. MARSHALL ALAN Bumping Into Friends.  illus. by Vane Lindsay pub. Melb. Cheshire 1950 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.128. Light edgewear, else fine.   Price: $55.00
330. MARSHALL ALAN I Can Jump Puddles. illus. by Alison Forbes pub. Melb. F.W. Cheshire 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Dustwrapper slight shelf wear top and bottom at spine & rear, short closed tear at return of d/w. old bookseller's sticker to past/down e/paper else near fine.   Price: $60.00
331. MARSHALL ALAN I Can Jump Puddles. illus. by Alison Forbes pub. London Secker & Warburg 1956 1st.ed. First UK Edition; or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Dustwrapper slight shelf wear bottom of spine, slightly browned to rear, short closed tears at returns of d/w. old bookseller's sticker to past/down e/paper else near fine. Price: $35.00
332. MARSHALL ALAN This Is The Grass. pub. Syd. Aust. Book Soc. 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.214. Irremediably crippled by polio, The author's moving story of his youth in the roisterous society of Victoria of the 1920's. Very slight edge wear to d/w. else very fine.   Price: $35.00
333. MARSHALL ALAN This Is The Grass. pub. Melb./Sydney Cheshire 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.214. Irremediably crippled by polio, The author's moving story of his youth in the roisterous society of Victoria of the 1920's. Price clipped, short closed tear at spine, very slight edge wear to d/w. else fine.  Price: $35.00
334. MARSHALL ALAN Alan Marshall Talking. with several text  illus. & dwgs t/out. pub. Melb. Longmans 1978 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.190. Short essays and biographical pieces. Chip to d/w. top-edge, short closed tear else fine.   Price: $40.00

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335. MARSHALL ALAN The Complete Stories Of Alan Marshall. with 6 full page reproduced pen dwgs. by Noel Counihan pub. Melb. Nelson 1977 1st. this ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.498. fine.   Price: $55.00
336. MASS NURI Donna Roon. with e/paper illus. pub. Syd. Alpha Books 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.258.    Price: $35.00
337. MATHER J.B. The Knight Of Toggenburg And other Verse. pub. Adel. Advertiser Newspapers 1935 1st. ed. or. grey boards black titles to front board 8vo. pp.30. Slightly browned else v/good. Presentation copy signed by author.   Price: $40.00
338. MATHER J.B. My Queen Elect And Other Verses.  pub. Adel. Advertiser Newspapers 1937 1st. ed. or. light brown boards 8vo. pp.98. Presentation copy signed  by author. some sl. spotting else v/good.   Price: $40.00
339. MATTHEWS BRIAN Louisa. Biography of Louisa Lawson. illus. with 2 maps pub. Melb. McPhee Gribble 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.422. Biography of Louisa Lawson, publisher, journalist, poet, inventor, women's rights agitator and mother of Henry Lawson. Very tiny chip to d/w. at fore-edge else fine copy.   Price: $35.00
340. MEAD PHILIP The Spring-Mire. Poems. illus. with 6 b/w. dwgs. by Ian Sharpe some full page pub. Canberra The Brindabella Press 1982 or. crm. & grey cl. dk. brown cf. to spine, glt.ltg. to spine, clear mylar dustwrapper roy.8vo pp.32. This edition signed by both author and illustrator, of 240 copies was hand-set and bound by Dove Bindery Melb. This being copy no.201. Fine.   Price: $100.00
341. MEADEN J.W. Poetical Works Of. Edited, and with Biographical Sketch by John Vale. illus. with frontis. with tissue guard & one full page plate with tissue guard pub. Melb. The Victorian Alliance Temperance Book Depot 1899 1st. ed. or.dk.grn.cl. 12mo. pp. rough cut to edges, 112 fine.   Price: $80.00
342. MEARS AINSLIE How Distant The Stars.   Case Notes and other poems. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1949 or. dark beige cl. 8vo. pp.21. limited to 150 copies, this copy unnumbered. Small mark to front board otherwise fine.   Price: $55.00
343. MENZIES J. L. By Gordon's Grave - And Other Verses. illus. with one plate; pub. Melbourne Brown, Prior & Co., 1926. or. illustrated, limp wrappers 8vo. pp.46 First edition of author's first book. very good copy.   Price: $30.00

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344. MILLER MORRIS E. Pressmen And Governors. Australian Editors and Writers in Early Tasmania. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1952 1st.ed. original cloth d/w. roy.8vo. pp.X.308.  This Edition is limited to 250 copies numbered and signed by the author this being No. 157. Near fine copy.   Price: $175.00
345. MILLER MORRIS E. Australian Literature. A Bibliography To 1938 Extended to 1959. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 Revised and Extended ed. or. blue cl. roy.8vo. pp.X.504. Alphabetical listing of Australian authors. Fine.   Price: $150.00 
346. MOORE T. INGLIS Bayonet And Grass. Poems. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.78.  Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
347. MOORHOUSE FRANK Futility And Other Animals. published Australia 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.162. 2001 Miles Franklin Award-winner's first published book - a collection of short stories in his then-distinctive 'discontinuous narrative' style of interlinked fictions. Minor wear to dustwrapper edges. A very good copy.   Price: $50.00
348. MOSES JACK Nine Miles From Gundagai. with one illus. pub.  Syd. 1938 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.116. Moses was one of  Australia's most famous bush poets and travelled Australia's shows for many years selling Australian wine and reciting his poetry. Small mark to rear of d/w. else near fine copy.   Price: $65.00
349. MOSES JACK Nine Miles From Gundagai. with one illus. pub. Syd. 1942 or.illus.wps. 12mo. pp.124.  sl. silverfished to spine and browned otherwise v/good copy.   Price: $30.00
350. MORANT H.H. (The Breaker) The Poetry Of 'Breaker' Morant From The Bulletin 1891-1903. pub. Sydney; Golden Press 1980 original illus. laminated boards 8vo. pp.XII.62. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
351. MORRIS EDWARD E. Austral English. A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages. With those Aboriginal Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australia. pub. London Macmillan & Co. 1898 1st.ed. or. dark blue cl. 8vo. pp.XXIV.526.2. Slightly faded to spine else almost fine.   Price: $150.00
352. MORRIS MYRA White Magic. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. E.A. Vidler 1929 1st.ed. or.dk blu.cl. cr.8vo. pp.165. very sl. rubbed else v/good.   Price: $40.00
353. MUDD  CHRISTOPHER  Tales And Trails Of Austral  Bush  And Plain. illus. with frontis. portrait, pub. Melb.  Spectator Pub.  Co. nd.1910? or. grey wps. 12mo. pp.130. almost  fine copy. Price: $55.00
354. MUDIE IAN Poems: 1934-1944. pub. Melbourne Georgian House (The Georgian House Poets Series). 1945 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.122. covering a period of ten years, and containing the poems from Corroboree to the Sun, This is Australia, Their Seven Stars Unseen, The Australian Dream, and Unabated Spring; fine in slightly chipped d/w.   Price: $45.00

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355. MUDIE IAN Selected Poems: 1934-1974. pub. Melb. Nelson 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.190. fine.  Price:  $35.00
356. MUNRO CRAIG Wild Man Of Letters. The story of P.R. Stephensen. illus. with 20 half-tone plates with num drawings & facsimiles in text, pub. Melbourne MUP 1984 or.bds. 8vo. pp.320 One of Australia's most remarkable men of letters, Stephensen was admired by D.H.Lawrence, parodied by Aldous Huxley, trailed by MI5, and denounced as a traitor to his own country during WWII. Biography of 'Inky Stephensen.' Very fine.   Price: $40.00

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357. NEILD J. M. -    Lawson - and His Critics An Address delivered before The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society, portion of which was also given at a Lawson annual gathering at Footscray, Victoria. with 2 b/w illustrations; pub. Melbourne, The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society, 1945. stiff stapled wrapper; cr. 8vo; pp.22; good copy.  Price:  $25.00
358. NEILSON JOHN SHAW (1872-1942) The Autobiography of. Neilson the poet was the son of a small settler and contract labourer. Introduced by Nancy Keesing. pub. Canberra National Lib. of Aust. 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.176. John Shaw Neilson's autobiography, describing the tough life that he and his family spent working a number of disastrous selections, and of how he came to write some of Australia's finest lyric poetry in his spare time; Fine copy.   Price: $45.00
359. NEVILLE RICHARD Play Power. Note: Author was sentenced to six-months hard labour for publishing an obscene magazine (OZ) in N.S.W. Acquitted after two years, and left for Lond. (1966) continuing to publish. pub. Lond. J. Cape 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.361. Collection of essays about the counterculture by the former publisher of OZ magazine. "Headopoly, an underground almanac poster-game" in pocket is not included in this book. It contains a notice from Australian Customs and Excise detailing its Prohibition Notice. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.   Price: $45.00
360. NILAND DARCY The Big Smoke pub. Sydney Angus and Robertson 1959 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.224. A novel of working class Sydney in the first two decades of the 20th century. slight foxing to edges, sellotape marks to e/papers otherwise v/good.   Price: $35.00

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361. NILAND D'ARCY The Shiralee. published London Michael Joseph 1965 or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.224. A swagman's travels through New South Wales with his daughter. The book was first filmed in 1957 starring Peter Finch as Jim Macauley.  d/w. sl. chipped top and bottom of spine else near fine.   Price: $35.00
362. NILAND D'ARCY Dead Men Running. pub. Syd. & Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.350. This story of friendship and archaic disaster is played out against a remote landscape during a flare-up of nationalist rage and hysteria. This was Niland's last novel, finished only a short time before he died. d/w. by Russell Drysdale. Two very small insect marks to spine & corner to return on rear of d/w. else near fine.   Price: $35.00
363. NOLAN CYNTHIA Outback illus. with with five drawings by Sidney Nolan, and 12 mono photos, illustrated endpapers,  bibliography, pub. London Methuen & Co, 1962 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. square pp.224. Written by the wife of Sidney Nolan, this is an account of a journey they both made into the Australian Outback June-Sept 1948. Fine in the price clipped d/w.   Price: $60.00
364. NOLAN CYNTHIA Outback illus. with with five drawings by Sidney Nolan, and 12 mono photos, illustrated endpapers, bibliography, pub. London Methuen & Co, 1962 1st. ed. "reprinted before publication 1962"; or.cl. d/w. 8vo. square pp.224. Written by the wife of Sidney Nolan, this is an account of a journey they both made into the Australian Outback June-Sept 1948. Fine in the price clipped d/w.   Price: $45.00
365. NOLAN CYNTHIA One Traveller's Africa illus. with 12 of Sidney Nolan's colour paintings. pub. London Methuen 1965 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. square pp.254. Price clipped, Christmas gift sticker to f/free e/paper otherwise fine.   Price: $50.00
366. NOLAN CYNTHIA A Bride For St. Thomas. pub. Lond. Constable 1970 2nd.imp. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224.  Near fine in the price clipped d/w.   Price: $35.00
367. NOLAN CYNTHIA A Sight Of China. illus. with 4 full page dwgs. by Sydney Nolan & one map pub. Lond. Macmillan 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.166.  Slightly foxed to edges, price clipped else near fine.  Price: $40.00
368. NORMINGTON-RAWLING J. Charles Harpur An Australian. Charles Harpur was the most important of the first generation of Australian nineteenth-century poets. illus. with frontis. & 5 plates pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.334.XIII. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else near fine.   Price: $40.00
369. OAKLEY BARRY Let's Hear It For Prendergast. pub. Melb. Heinemann 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. Fine copy.  Price: $35.00

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370. O'BRIEN JOHN Around the Boree Log and Other Verses. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1921 1st.ed. or. red cl. cr.8vo. obl. pp.162.  Front board has a little fading to lower corner at fore-edge otherwise very good copy.   Price: $95.00
371. O'BRIEN JOHN Around The Boree Log and Other Verses.  pub. Syd. Cornstalk Pub. 1925 4^th ed. or. red boards d/w. 12mo. pp.168. Dustwrapper Slight chip lower spine and two short closed tears otherwise fine.   Price: $35.00 
372. O'DOWD BERNARD The Seven Deadly Sins. (A Series Of Sonnets) and other verses. pub. Melb. T.C. Lothian 1909 1st. ed. or. wrappers with yapp edges, 12mo.obl. pp.54. Lacks small piece top edge front of wrapper otherwise very good.   Price: $45.00
373. O'DOWD BERNARD Poems Of Bernard O'Dowd. Collected Ed. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Lothian Pub. 1941 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.XVIII.286.12 advts. This volume contains all the poems in the "DawnWard", "Silent Land", "Dominions of the Boundary", "Seven Deadly Sins", "the Bush", and "Alma Venus". "Poetry Militant" is included as a preface. In addition many other poems are now published for the first time Fine in sl. chipped d/w.   Price: $35.00

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374. OGILVIE WILL H.  The Australian And Other Verses. illus. with end paper, frontispiece and title page vign. pub. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1916 2nd. imp. pp .174  followed by pp.24 book catalogue. Lacks f/free e/paper else, unobtrusive inscription to f/free e/paper, else very good copy.   Price: $50.00
375. O'GRADY JOHN   Aussie English An Explanation of the Australian Idiom illus. with b/w drawings by Wep pub. Sydney Ure Smith 1965 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.104. Collection of the Australian idiom, mostly as spoken by the man in the bar, or the man in the bush - a useful phrase-book of Aussie slang. Near fine.  Price: $25.00
376. O'HARA JOHN BERNARD Odes & Lyrics. collection of poems pub. Melb. Melville & Mullen 1906 1st. ed. or. moss green cl. cr.8vo. pp.164. second e/paper cut otherwise near fine.   Price: $40.00
377. O'LEARY P.I. Bard In Bondage. Essays of P.I. O'Leary selected and edited by Joseph O'Dwyer. pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press 1954 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254.   Price: $30..00
378. OLLIF LORNA Louisa Lawson. Henry Lawson's Crusading Mother. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.148.  biography of Henry Lawson's mother, re-assessing her place in Australian history, following her activities as an activist for women's rights and votes for women; created her magazine "The Dawn." Fine.   Price: $30.00
379. OSBORNE W.A. Essays And Literary Sketches. illus. with frontis. Melb. Lothian 1943 or.cl. d.w. 12mo. pp.138. Includes essays on Brett Harte, Carlyle as scientist, Goldsmith as scientist, The Brontes, Poe etc. Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
380. PALMER VANCE The World Of Men. pub. Melb. Cheshire. 1962 or.cl. 8vo. pp.54. "This is the new edition of his earliest published collection of prose. First published in 1915, re-issued in this new format 1962."   Price: $25.00

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381. PARK RUTH and D'ARCY NILAND The Drums Go Bang. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.196. Illustrated by Phil Taylor. Autobiographical account of the authors' first five years together concentration on the merry side of marriage and the hilarious side of literary life. Price clipped, Gift inscription to f/free e/paper else almost fine copy. Price: $35.00
382. PARK RUTH  One-A-Pecker, Two-A-Pecker e/paper illus. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.232. sl. chipped d/w. else v/good   Price: $35.00
383. PARK RUTH Come Danger, Come Darkness. illus. with e/paper maps, pub. Syd. Hodder & Stoughton 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.164.   Fine copy.  Price: $35.00
384. PARK RUTH Missus. Missus is the first book in the Harp in the South Trilogy. pub. Melb. Nelson 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.247. a fine copy.     Price: $25.00
385. PARK RUTH Swords And Crowns And Rings. pub. Lond. 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.436. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1977. A baby born in a small Australian town at the beginning of the century turns out to be a dwarf. His father rejects him in disgust, but his mother, determined to make his life as normal and happy as possible, comforts him with stories of the magic past, of the enchanted dwarves of folklore. Slight marks to end of pages at top otherwise fine.    Price: $35.00
386. PARTRIGE SYDNEY (Kate Margaret.) The Lie And Other Lines. pub. Adel. The Koolinda Press 1913 1st. ed. or. cream stapled wrappers, 12mo. tall pp.44. Name to front wrapper, slight foxing else very good copy.   Price: $45.00
387. PATERSON A.B. The Animals Noah Forgot.   Enlarged and Redesigned Edition text illus. by Norman Lindsay pub. Melb. Lansdowne 1970 or.cl. d/w. lge. 8vo. pp.72. fine.   Price: $35.00

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388. PATERSON A.B. Rio Grandes last Race And Other Verses. pub. Syd, Angus & Robertson 1902 1st. ed. or. green cl. glt. ltg. to spine, top page edges gilt. cr.8vo. pp.XII.178,32 advts. Contains classic poems such as Mulga Bill's Bicycle, Father Riley's Horse, etc. Inscription to inside cover, otherwise very good copy.   Price: $45.00          Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
389. PATERSON A.B. Rio Grandes last Race And Other Verses. pub. Syd, Angus & Robertson 1902 1st. ed. Third Thousand or. green cl. glt. ltg. to spine, top page edges gilt. cr.8vo. pp.XII.178,32 advts. Contains classic poems such as Mulga Bill's Bicycle, Father Riley's Horse, etc. Lightly rubbed cloth, otherwise very good copy.   Price: $35.00
390. PATERSON A.B. The Collected Verse Of A.B. Paterson. illus. with frontis. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1940 or.cl. 8vo. pp.344. D/w. little browned to spine, slight foxing otherwise v/good.  Price: $40.00
391. PATERSON A.B. Saltbush Bill J.P. Trench Edition with illus. e/papers frontis. & title page vign. by Lionel Lindsay pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson smaller Trench Edition 1917 or.illus.cl. 18mo.obl. pp.138. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, little foxed else very good.   Price: $60.00
392. PATERSON A.B. Three Elephant Power. And other stories. illus. e/papers published Sydney Angus & Robertson 1917 or.cl. 8vo.obl. pp.138. These stories appeared originally in The Bulletin & various Australian newspapers and journals. Slight foxing to e/papers else very good.   Price: $50.00
393. PATERSON A.B." Singer Of The Bush 1885-1900 & Song Of The Pen 1901-1941. " profusely illus. with plates/text dwgs. t/out. pub. Syd. Lansdowne Press 1984 or.cl. sm.4to. 2 vols.pp.vol.I.XXVI.723. vol.II.XXVI.790. v/fine.     Price: $100.00

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394. PATERSON BANJO Poet By Accident. biography by Colin Roderick. illus. with several text plates, 2 maps, endnotes, select bibliography, index; pub. Sydney, Allen & Unwin 1993 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.264. Very fine.   Price: $50.00
395. PENTON BRIAN Land-Takers. The Story of an Epoch. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 (first pub. in 1934) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.360. Pioneering and crime novel set in Australian penal colonies. Penton was associated with Jack Lindsay in conducting the Franfroloco Press. Short closed tear to d/w top of spine else fine. Price: $35.00

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396. PHIPPS WILLIAM HERVEY   Bush Yarns And Town Sketches  illus. with 7 full page plates by G. C. Benson. frontis. (photo) of author and friends in Rabaul. pub. Melbourne Gay & Tout, nd. 1921? or. white/orange/black printed wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.134.7 advts. William Hervey Phipps, an Australian journalist who was a lieutenant and censor in Rabaul in 1915. George Courtney Benson was born in Melbourne Victoria in 1886. He studied in Melbourne and worked for the Bulletin in Sydney. In Melbourne he was employed by the Sporting and Dramatic News and Melbourne Punch as an illustrator and cartoonist. In 1914 he enlisted and served at Gallipoli and in France. He was appointed as an official war artist. Slightly water stained to edge of the first 15 pages, & edges of two plates, browned to edges, closed tears to front wrapper. Paper is flimsy newsprint. Good condition for age.   Price: $60.00
397. PIERCE PETER Ed. by. The Oxford Literary Guide To Australia. profusely illus. with text plates t/out. 8 full page col. plates & 8 maps. pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XVI.344.  Comprehensive account of the places that were celebrated by Australian poets, novelists and playwrights and of where they lived, worked, drank and are buried. Fine.  Price: $45.00
398. PITT MARIE E.J. The Horses Of The Hills. And other Verses. pub. Melbourne, 1911 1st ed. or. moss green cl. 112mo. pp.115. Gilt titles little faded, slight browning to pages else near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
399. PIZER MARJORIE (Ed.) Freedom On The Wallaby. Poems of the Australian people. pub. Syd. Pinchgut Press nd. 195-? or. green cl.   sm.4to. pp.208.     Price: $35.00
400. POLITZER LUDWIG LOUIS Autumn Leaves. Verses and Letters. illus. with pencil drawings by Harold B. Herbert 11 full page and double page. pub. Melbourne Pan Publishing House nd. c. 1934 or. patterned wrappers, yapp edges, with printed paper title-label on front cover roy.8vo. (pp. unpaginated approx. 64). Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else fine.   Price: $35.00
401. PORT Mrs. S.J. Victoria's Centenary And Other Loyal Poems. illus. with text decorations t/out. pub. Vic. Geelong 1934 or.grey & red illus.wps. 12mo. pp.14. fine.  Price: $30.00
402. PORTER HAL The Tilted Cross. pub. Lond. Faber 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.266. Price-clipped wrapper, A novel set in Hobart Tasmania, in convict days. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else near fine in the slightly shelf worn d/w.   Price: $50.00        Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
403. PORTER HAL The Watcher On The Cast-Iron Balcony. An Australian Autobiography. pub. Lond. Faber. 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Hal Porter's autobiography. Taking in his childhood and adolescence in Australia in the 1920s in a lower middle-class urban environment. Previous owners details on front free e/paper, short closed tear to d/w. otherwise near fine.  Price: $35.00
404. PORTER HAL The Watcher On The Cast-Iron Balcony. An Australian Autobiography. pub. Lond. Faber. 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Hal Porter's autobiography. Taking in his childhood and adolescence in Australia in the 1920s in a lower middle-class urban environment. Fine in the price clipped d/w.  Price: $55.00
405. PORTER HAL The Clairvoyant Goat. Ten compelling stories. pub. Melb. Nelson 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. fine copy.     Price: $35.00
406. POWELL S. W.  The Pearls Of Cheong Tah illus. with drawings by Vernon Lorimer pub. Sydney The N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Ltd., 1922 or. pictorial card wrappers, (paperback), 12mo. pp.186,8. Novel of pearling; sl. chipping at lower spine, pages tanned with age, else v/good.   Price: $50.00
407. PRICHARD KATHARINE SUSANNAH Golden Miles. pub. Lond. Cape in assoc. with Aust. Pub. Co. 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.386. Sequel to "The Roaring Nineties". back strip sl. sunned otherwise fine. Price: $35.00
408. PRICHARD KATHARINE SUSANNAH Golden Miles.  pub. Syd. Aust. Pub. Co. 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.386. d/w sl. frayed at extremities else near fine.    Price: $50.00
409. PRICHARD KATHARINE SUSANNAH Winged Seeds. pub. Syd. & Lond. Aust. Pub. Co. & Cape 1950 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.388. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.   Price: $75.00

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410. PRICHARD KATHERINE SUSANNAH Coonardoo. (The Well In the Shadow). pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 (1st. pub. 1929) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.234. "The subtlest and most moving of all Australian books about Aboriginal-white relationships." - Geoffrey Dutton. One of Dutton's list of the 100 most important Australian books. Coonardoo won the prize for the best Australian novel, offered by the Bulletin in 1928. fine in the chipped d/w.   Price: $30.00
411. PRICHARD KATHERINE SUSANNAH -  N'goola And Other Stories e/paper designs, pub. Melbourne. Australasian Book Society. 1959 1st Edition. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. 174 with dustwrapper designed by Noel Counihan. Illustrations by Noel Counihan. Short stories concerning Aborigines. Fine copy, price clipped.        Price: $45.00             Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
412. PRICHARD KATHARINE SUSANNAH Subtle Flame. pub. Syd. Australasian Book Soc. 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.300.  Novel of the 1960s anti-nuclear era, in which a Melbourne newspaper editor confronts personal tragedy. Near fine copy with slight chip to rear of d/w.   Price: $35.00
413. PRICHARD KATHARINE SUSANNAH Child of the Hurricane. An Autobiography pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1963 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.266. slight insect to spot near 'C' of 'Child' on d/w. else near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
414. PRICHARD KATHARINE SUSANNAH Wild Weeds And Wind Flowers. The Life and Letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard written by Ric Throssell. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1975 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.274. A foundation member of the Australian Communist Party and an ardent feminist. The author is the son of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Hugo Throssell. Fine.  Price: $40.00
415. PROUT DENTON Henry Lawson. The Grey Dreamer. with col. frontis. & 17 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel Rigby 1963 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.306.   Denton Prout is a pseudonym for Charles Walter Phillips. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.     Price: $40.00
416. QUADRANT Ed. by James McAuley & Donald Horne. 5 issues- Jan-Feb., May-June 1966 March-April, Nov-Dec. 1967 March- April 1968. verse, literature, articles etc. illus. advts. pub. Syd illus. wrappers sm.4to. pp.approx 80 per issue. fine.  Price: $30.00
417. QUICK M.    Green Crowns. An account of the native trees on the Hills around Robertson, N.S.W. Burradoo: illus. with frontis. , 12 original wood engravings by the author, text-drawings, locality map; pub. Sydney Juniper Press, 1955 1st.ed. or. boards d/w. 8vo. pp.VI,38 Limited "Special" edition of 150 numbered copies, fully signed "Mary Quick" this being No.40.  Private Australian Press. d/w. silverfished to spine, and boards sl. effected, else very good copy. Added: Publisher's circular advertising the book.   Price: $60.00
418. QUICK M. Green Crowns. An account of the native trees on the Hills around Robertson, N.S.W. Burradoo: illus. with frontis. , 12 original wood engravings by the author, text-drawings, locality map; pub. Sydney Juniper Press, 1955 1st.ed. or. card boards d/w. 8vo. pp.VI,38 Limited to 500 copies. Private Australian Press. else very good copy.   Price: $30.00
419. QUINN RODERIC Poems. frontis. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1920 or.cl. 8vo.obl. pp.194.  Quinn (1867-1949) was of Irish extraction, he studied law, became a country schoolteacher, and eventually freelance journalist and a poet. Fine crease in front board else v/good.   Price: $40.00
420. RAYMENT TARLTON Eagles And Earthlings. Poems. A Metrical tribute to the Aircrews in the War. with frontis. & text illus. by author pub. by Author 1945 illus.wps. 12mo. pp.94. signed presentation copy "22^nd may 1946".   Price: $45.00
421. REES CORALIE CLARKE   Silent His Wings pub. Sydney nd. 1946 or. boards 8vo. pp.VIII.20. Poetry honouring the author's brother, a pilot killed in the war.    Price: $20.00
422. REED CYNTHIA Lucky Alphonse. pub. Melb. Reed & Harris 1944 or.illus.bds. d/w. 12mo.obl. pp.232. d/w. sl. silverfished to front-edge.  Price:  $35.00
423. REYNOLDS JOHN & MARGARET GIORDANO Countries Of The Mind. The biographical journey of Edmund Morris Miller (1881- 1964). illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates pub. Hobart Melanie Prod. 1985 or.cl. d/w. lge.8vo. pp.IX.172.  Limited to 250 copies. Fine in the d/w. which is slightly browned on back flap.   Price: $95.00

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424. RICHARDSON HENRY HANDEL The Way Home. Being the second part of The Chronicle Of The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1925 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.345. ex.lib. stamps to back bds., top & bottom. Backstrip fraying - fair copy.  Price:  $25.00
425. RICHARDSON HENRY HANDEL The Young Cosima. pub. Lond. Heinemann nd. 1934 1st.ed. or. blue cl. ruled and lettered on spine in gilt cr.8vo. pp.340. Her last novel - based on the life of Cosima Liszt, later Cosima Wagner. light internal spotting otherwise good. Neat inscription on front free endpaper otherwise very good condition.   Price: $60.00
426. RIENITS REX Who Would Be Free pub. Melbourne Truth and Sportsman 1944 original illustrated paperback, cr.8vo. pp.150. Historical novel of the Eureka Stockade. eureka stockade. Name to top of title page else very good copy.     Price:  $30.00
427. RODERICK COLIN An Introduction To Australian Fiction. published Sydney Angus & Robertson 1950 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.184. a fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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428. RUDD STEELE Arthur Hoey Davis.  Our New Selection! illus. with (16 publisher's ads), b/w illus. including Norman Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, pub. Sydney, The Bulletin 1903 1st ed. or. red & green illus. cream cl. 8vo.,all edges red,  pp.VII 212. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, slightly soiled boards, some foxing t/out. otherwise very good copy.   Price: $175.00
429. RUDD STEELE - Sandy's Selection  With illustrations by Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Nuttall, Dyson etc. (The frontispiece is a photographic study of 'Steele Rudd' posed with a polo pony ), pub. Sydney The New South Wales Bookstall Co. 1904 1st ed. or. red illus. cream cl. all edges red, 8vo. pp.VIII.224. very sl. foxed to e/papers, else fine clean copy.   Price: $150.00
430. RUDD STEELE (A. H. Davis). Back At Our Selection. illus. with num. b/w illus. by Ruby Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Ruth Simpson and Ashton Murphy. pub. Sydney, New South Wales Bookstall, 1906 1st.ed. or. grey blue pictorial cloth cr.8vo. pp.216. Small neat, name on f/free e/paper very slight shelf wear else near fine copy.   Price: $150.00
431. RUDD STEELE (A. H. Davis).  Back At Our Selection. illus. with num. b/w illus. by Ruby Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Ruth Simpson and Ashton Murphy. pub. Sydney, New South Wales Bookstall, 1910 Original pictorial wrappers 8vo. pp.188.16 Blue pencil inscription of e/papers, rubbed, little browned/soiled, reasonable copy only. But complete and intact, good reading copy.   Price: $45.00
432. RUDD STEELE   The Book Of Dan. With illustrations by Lionel Lindsay, frontis. plus 17; pub. Sydney The New South Wales Bookstall Co. 1912 Original pictorial wrappers 8vo. pp.148, 12 pages of adverts. And 4 lovely colour pages of ads of Bookstall books. Lightly chipped to spine, rubbed cover crease marks, else good copy.    Price: $65.00
433. RUDD STEELE with illustrations by Ben Jordan (10) On An Australian Farm. pub. Sydney N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Ltd, nd. C. 191-?. Tenth ed. original pictorial wrappers 8vo. pp.148.10 adverts. Crease to front wrapper else very good copy    Price: $55.00
434. RUDD STEELE    The Romance Of Runnibede Illustrated film edition. illus. with 8 b/w photo plates (film stills from the Phillips Film Production). pub. Sydney N.S.W. Bookstall (c. 1927) or. blue cl. cr.8vo. pp.208 Set on a farm station in Queensland. sl. foxing to edges, neat inscription to past-down e/paper else very good copy.   Price: $60.00
435. RUDD STEEL The Poor Parson And Dad In Politics. with illus. by Syd Smith and Harry Julius pub. Qld. Uni. of Qld. Press 1968 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.264. Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
436. RUHEN OLAF Writing. The Craft of Creative Fiction. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.112. fine copy signed by author. Slightly silverfished to for-edge & rear of d/w. else v/good. Rear e/paper has prior owner's writing, (poem?) signed  by author "Manley 1965".  Price:  $50.00
437. RUSSELL LINDSAY Souls In Pawn. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Ward Lock & Co. 1913 1st.ed. or.dk.blu.cl. cr.8vo. pp.340. little rubbed else v/good.   Price:     Price: $45.00
438. RUSSELL LINDSAY The Years Of Forgetting. illus. with frontis. pub. Lond. Ward Lock & Co. Lond. & Melb. 1914 1st.ed. or. grey blk. & red dec. wps. cr.8vo. pp.320. short closed tear at spine otherwise very good.    Price: $45.00
439. SCOTT BILL Compiled and annotated by. Complete Book Of Australian Folk Lore. illus. with plates, facsimile eng. t/out. pub. Syd. Ure Smith 1976 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.430.    Price: $35.00
440. SLESSOR K.   Backless Betty from Bondi. Ed. by Julian Croft. illus. with num. b/w text-illus. by V. Reilly, F. Dunne and J. Morrison. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1983 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.X.36. All verses and drawings orig. appeared in Smith's Weekly. Fine.   Price: $35.00
441. SEMMLER CLEMENT The Banjo Of The Bush. The work, life and times of A.B. Paterson illus. with 2 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Lansdowne 1975 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.267. Very good copy.  Price: $35.00
442. SEYMOUR ALAN The One Day Of The Year. published Sydney Angus & Robertson 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12.mo. pp.108. Historical novel of Australian soldiers who fought in the First World War. d/w. short closed tear to rear of d/w. price clipped, else very fine copy.   Price: $60.00
443. SEYMOUR ALAN The One Day Of The Year pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12.mo. pp.108. Historical novel of Australian soldiers who fought in the First World War. Very sl. browned to d/w. else very good copy. Price: $40.00

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444. SHUTE NEVIL No Highway. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1948 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.315. d/w. slightly chipped, light spotting - good.  Price:  $25.00
445. SHUTE NEVIL Beyond The Black Stump. pub. Melbourne Heinemann 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.298. American geologist is sent to Australia to prospect for oil and meet the natives. fine in the sl. chipped d/w.   Price: $40.00
446. SHUTE NEVIL On The Beach. pub. Melb. Heinemann 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.312. Stanley Kramer's 1959 film of this apocalyptic novel was nominated for two Academy Awards. Two signatures second free e/paper, lacks corner from margin page one, little shelf wear otherwise v/good.   Price: $40.00
447. SHUTE NEVIL Trustee From The Toolroom pub. London Heinemann 1960 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.312. dustwrapper designed by Fratini. Novel about a man who journeys 200 miles across the Pacific in a small boat with only one companion. Slightly foxed dustwrapper with two short closed tears and wear at top of spine, slight foxing to front free e/paper otherwise v/good.   Price: $35.00
448. SHUTE NEVIL Stephen Morris. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.274.  Minor rubbing to d/w. at extremities otherwise v/good.   Price: $35.00
449. SLADEN DOUGLAS Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Life and Best Poems of the Poet of Australia. The Westminster Abbey Memorial Volume, with description of unveiling of the Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial in Westminster Abbey to mark the 100 years since his birth. illus. with frontis. & 7 full page plates t/out. published London Hutchinson 1934 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.288. pp.64 advts.  Black cloth cover has light insect damage to the edges, rear cloth has insect damage to fore-edge and top edge. Good otherwise.   Price: $40.00
450. SLADEN DOUGLAS B.W. Ed. by. A Century Of Australian Song. Authors inc. Thomas Bracken, John bright, Jennings Carmicheal, Ethel Castilla, Alfred T. Chandler, Marcus Clarke, Arthur Patchett Martin, Henry Parks. pub. Melb. E.W. Cole, Book Arcade nd.190-? or.dec. blu.cl. glt.ltg. to front cl. & spine 8vo. pp.XVI.584,16,advts.  Slight shelf wear else v/good copy.   Price: $60.00
451. SORENSEN JACK The Collected Poems Of 1907-1949. pub. Perth 1950 or. overlapping wps. 8vo. pp.94. Near fine.   Price: $30.00

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452. STEAD CHRISTINA House Of All Nations. pub. Lond Peter Davies 1938 1st. ed. Second Printing. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.794. portrayal of the world of high finance at a Paris bank "during the rise of fascism in Germany and Republicanism in Spain." Some spotting to d/w. and e/papers slightly browned to spine. Booksellers sticker on front pastedown, price clipped otherwise v/good copy, boards very fine.   Price: $300.00
453. STEAD CHRISTINA I'm Dying Laughing. The Humourist. pub. Lond. Virago Press 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.448. Posthumous publication of a novel Stead began work on after the second World War, and one drawn from her political involvement in America prior to and during the war period. Edited and with a preface by R.G. Geering. Edges slightly browned due to poor quality paper.   Price: $35.00

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454. STEPHENS J.B. -  The Black Gin And Other Poems. pub. Melbourne George Robinson 1873 1st ed. sm.8vo. or.cl. pp.4,96 pages of adverts. removed at rear, otherwise complete, sl. stain to free e/paper, sl. rubbed else v/good.   Price: $75.00
455. STEPHENS J. B. Convict Once and Other Poems. pub. Melbourne, George Robertson & Company 1885. or. red cl. gilt. t.e.g. and other edges uncut. 8vo. pp.IV.340. Although the title-page states "new Edition", according to "Morris Miller" this is the 1st ed. A later ed. appeared in 1888. Includes: Convict Once, My Chinese Cook, Adelaide Ironside, A Brisbane Reverie, The Antipodes, Macaulay's New Zealander, The Dominion of Australia, Cape Byron, The Famine in Ireland 1878-80 etc. A collection of poems written in Australia by J. Brunton Stephens (1835-1902), the poet, novelist, critic, schoolteacher and public servant. Little rubbed and flecked otherwise very good.   Price: $65.00
456. STEPHENS J. BRUNTON A Hundred Pounds. A Novelette to which is added Bailed Up with a Whitewash Brush. pub. Melbourne E. W. Cole Arcade 1897 or. grey/pinkcard wrappers, with title and decoration in black on front wrapper & up spine, cr.12mo. pp.202, Lacks rear wrapper else very good.   Price: $200.00
457. STEVEN ALEXANDER G. Lures. (poems) pub. Melb. nd. inscript. 1923 or. dark blue grey wps. 8vo. pp.50. little spotted otherwise v/good copy. Author's signed presentation copy.  Price: $30.00
458. STEVEN ALEXANDER G. Poems. pub. Melb. nd.192-? or.crm. stiff wps. 8vo. pp.36. Near fine copy.   Price: $25.00
459. STEVEN ALEXANDER G. Revolt. Poetry pub. Melb. The author. nd.1919? original stiff dark green wrappers 12.mo. pp.38. Fine.   Price: $30.00
460. STEWART DOUGLAS Sonnets To The Unknown Soldier. illus. with frontis. by Norman Lindsay, pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1941 or. pink bds. maroon cloth to spine, cr.8vo.obl. pp.30. light spotting else fine.    Price: $60.00.       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
461. STEWART DOUGLAS  Sun Orchids and Other Poems. With Pen-drawings by Norman Lindsay. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1952 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.72. Two short closed tears to d/w. else near fine.   Price: $110.00
462. STEWART DOUGLAS Four Plays. The Fire on the Snow (a radio drama), presents with austere beauty and power Scott's fatal journey to the South Pole; - The Golden Lion is a comedy of Maori life and legend; - Ned Kelly is a play of swift, exciting action and a penetrating character study;- Shipwreck tells the appalling story of the wreck of the Batavia' off the west coast of Australia in the 17th C. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.310. fine in the slightly browned to spine d/w.   Price: $50.00

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463. STEWART DOUGLAS Collected Poems 1936-1967. index; pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.340. felt-pen mark & slight sellotape marks to f/free e/paper else near fine copy.  Price: $45.00
464. STIVENS DAL    Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a notable Australian pub. London, England Britannicvs Liber Limited 1951 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.312. Novel set in Sydney early this century. Authors First book. Very good in the chipped d/w. (lacks piece at top of spine).    Price: $30.00
465. STIVENS DAL The Gambling Ghost And Other Stories. with text illus. by H.J. Rothe pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1953 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.114.  collection of Australian tall tales, fables and fantasies. V/good in the d/w. which lacks small piece lower spine.   Price: $30.00
466. STOKES EDWARD The Novels Of James Hanley. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.204.VI.  Very good copy.  Price: $30.00
467. STOW RANDOLPH Act One. Poems By Randolph Stow. pub. Lond. MacDonald 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.76. small neat name to f/free e/paper short closed tear to d/w. otherwise near fine.   Price: $100.00
468. STOW RANDOLPH To The Islands. pub. Lond. MacDonald 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.206. near fine copy fine.   Price: $155.00
469. STOW RANDOLPH Midnite. The story of a Wild Colonial Boy. illus. by Ralph Steadman pub. Melbourne Lond. Cheshire 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.140. Story of a boy bushranger from WA. tiny piece torn from rear free e/paper, where pages were parted, else fine in near perfect d/w.   Price: $95.00
470. STOW RANDOLPH Visitants. pub. Lond. Secker & Warburg 1979 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.189.  Fine.   Price: $30.00
471. STOW RANDOLPH Tourmaline. pub. MacDonald 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. d/w. design by Sidney Nolan. Fine - v/slight spotting to d/w.     Price: $35.00

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472. STURGES A.E.    Flaherty's Fall Publisher: Hobart, Tasmania: Cat and Fiddle Press, 1975 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.212.  Short stories. Light edgewear else near fine. Price: $35.00
473. SOMERSET W.A. Arranged and Edited by. Literary Gems I Love And Why! Selected by the readers of "Everybody's Journal." illus. title page vign. & b/w. dwgs. t/out. pub. Melbourne T. Shaw Fitchett nd.193-? or. grey grn. cl. cr.4to.obl. glt.ltg. to front bd. pp.188. a fine copy.    Price: $50.00
474. SUTTON JOHN The Literary Work Of John Sutton. Sir Harrison Moore, C.A. Scott and R.P. Franklin (ed.'s) pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1925 or.cl. backed boards, printed paper label on spine cr.8vo. pp.VIII.124. Poetry and essays by writer who died at age 20; Pages rough-cut. Water stain to inside boards, and free e/papers, pages clean, name to front free e/paper otherwise a good copy.   Price: $30.00
475. SUTTON JOHN The Literary Work Of John Sutton. Sir Harrison Moore, C.A. Scott and R.P. Franklin (ed.'s) pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1925 or.cl. backed boards, printed paper label on spine d/w. cr.8vo. pp.VIII.124. Poetry and essays by writer who died at age 20; Pages rough-cut. Small name to front free e/paper, e/papers little browned, d/w. little water stained otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $60.00

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476. TATE AUDREY Ada Cambridge. Her Life And Work 1844-1926. pub. Melbourne, M.U.P. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.320. Ada Cambridge came to Australian in 1870 and is only now re-discovered as exploring social problems in her novels and other writings. fine copy.   Price:  $40.00.       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
477. TAYLOR ANDREW Selected Poems. 1960-1980. pub. Brisbane Uni. of Queensland Press 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.182. Fine.    Price: $35.00
478. TAYLOR CHARLES E. The Girl Who Helped Ned Kelly. illus. with frontis. & 5 full page b/w. illus. by R. Wenban pub. Melb. United Press 1929? illus.wps. 12mo. pp.248.IV.  A fictional romance, with a section explaining the Kelly gang exploits and the bushrangers career. Rear of wrapper silverfished, lacks piece at top, otherwise very good.  Price: $75.00
479. TEMPLE M.S. and H. TEMPLE KERR Australian Poetry. pub. Melb. Walker May & Co. 1905 1st.ed. or.cl. 12mo. pp.141. sl. fading to spine else very good.   Price:  $35.00
480. TENNANT KYLIE Time Enough Later. pub. Lond. Macmillan 1945 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254, small chip to top of spine, price clipped, otherwise very fine copy.   Price:  $45.00
481. TENNANT KYLIE The Battlers. pub. Sirus Pub. Co. 1945 or.cl. 8vo. pp.318.   Price:  $45.00
482. TENNANT KYLIE Foveaux pub. Sydney, Sirius Publishing Company, 1946 1st Australian Edition or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.426. Novel set in the imaginary suburb of Foveaux. Edges of d/w. browned with remains of old cellotape else v/good. Price: $45.00
483. TENNANT KYLIE  The Honey Flow pub. London Macmillan 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp. IV.348. Novel on the theme of bee-keeping. A near fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-wrapper which has closed tear at lower spine and short closed tear at the head of spine.   Price: $45.00
484. TENNANT KYLIE The Honey Flow  pub. London Macmillan 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp. IV.348. Novel on the theme of bee-keeping. A fine copy with a price-clipped dust-wrapper which is very fine.  Price: $75.00

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485. TENNANT KYLIE Ma Jones And The Little White Cannibals. pub.  Lond. & Melb. Macmillan 1967 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.184. Three comic Fates, Ma Jones and her accomplices, Honoria Cheeme and cousin Leonie, have it but no of ingenious for interfering. Ma Jones is indeed a specialist in arranging other people's lives. One short closed tear to d/w. at spine otherwise very fine copy.   Price: $40.00 Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
486. TENNANT KYLIE   The Autobiography of Kylie Tennant The Missing Heir. illus. with 6 full page plates t/out. Index, pub. Melbourne Macmillian 1986 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.190. Fine.    Price: $35.00

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487. THORPE D.W. PTY.LTD. Australian Books In Print.  Including Bookbuyers' reference book. Ed. by Joyce Nicholson. illus. with advts. Contents Include: Australian Representatives of Overseas Publishers, Australian Publishers and Addresses, Other Trade Information. pub. Melb. 1974 or.cl.  sm.4to. 334. A good reference of Australian books published and in print 1974. Very good condition.   Price: $40.00
488. THWAITES MICHAEL     Poems Of War And Peace pub. Melbourne F.W Cheshire 1968 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.62 dustwrapper has several small tears with a piece missing, otherwise a very good copy. Signed by author.     Price: $30.00
489. TIMMS E.V. The Challenge. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.312. 'The fifth novel in Timms' great saga of pioneering Australia, set in the fevered gold years of the1850s. neat signature past down e/paper, chipped d/w. This is a presentation copy signed by the author.   Price: $40.00
490. TIMMS E.V. The Scarlet Frontier. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1953 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.312. neat signature past down e/paper, chipped d/w. lacks small piece top of spine, (1cm) edge of front bd. faint damp stain, cellophane tape to d/w. good otherwise. This is a presentation copy signed by the author.  Price: $30.00
491. TIMMS E.V. Shining Harvest. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. bds. sl. flecked to shelf edge, insect mark (small hole) to front free e/paper, d/w. fine price clipped. signed by E. V. Timms.   Price: $50.00
492. TIMMS E.V. The Fury. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1954 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.24. d/w. torn down both sides at front of bds. sl. chipped. boards have been little damp sl. stains on  boards  good otherwise internally clean,  presentation copy signed by E. V. Timms.     Price: $30.00.       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
493. TIMMS E.V. The Big Country. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1962 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.230.  This is a story of the Big Country that lies around and beyond the Darling River in the far west of New South Wales in 1874. chip top of spine otherwise fine copy.    Price:  $25.00
494. TOMASETTI GLEN    Thoroughly Decent People. A Folktale.  pub. Melbourne, McPhee Gribble, 1976. 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.8,164.. Author's first novel. A Fine copy.     Price: $35.00
495. TOMASETTI GLEN Man Of Letters. A romance. illus. with several text dwgs. pub. Melb. McPhee Gribble 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240.  Signed by the author (dated 1981). Glen Tomasetti was prominent in the anti war movement in Australia in the 60's and also a musician and songwriter. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00

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496. TROLLOPE ANTHONY  Harry Heathcote Of Gangoil. A tale of Australian Bush Life. introduction by Marcie Muir illus. with frontis. & 5 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1963 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.160. Fine.    Price: $25.00
497. TUCKER JAMES Ralph Rashleigh. illus. with endpaper maps pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1953 Third Impression. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.302. Tucker was transported to New South Wales in 1827 and worked at Sydney, Windsor, Campbell town, Emu Plains and Port Macquarie. `Ralph Rashleigh' was originally considered an important contemporary memoir of early convict life. Slight chipping top of spine else near fine.   Price: $30.00
498. TUCKER JAMES Jemmy Green In Australia. A Comedy In Three Acts. First Edition of a play written in 1845 and rediscovered in 1950's. illus. with frontis Syd. Angus & Robertson 1955 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.110. Limited to 1000 copies. Author was a convict who also wrote Ralph Rashleigh. Limited to 1000 copies. closed tear to rear of d/w. else near fine copy.   Price: $75.00
499. TUCKER HORACE The New Arcadia. An Australian Story. pub. Lond. George Robertson 1894 or.cl. sm.8vo. pp.VI.314. Horace Finn Tucker (1849-1911) was born in Cambridge, England. After migrating to Australia and serving in several parishes in central Victoria, Tucker became minister at Christ Church South Yarra in Melbourne and establsihed a grammar school. sl. mark to f/board otherwise near fine.   Price: $125.00

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500. TURNER HENRY GYLES and ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND The Development Of Australian Literature. illus. dec. e/papers & with 6 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. & Syd. George Robertson & Co. 1898 or. maroon cl. cr.8vo. pp.344  all edges rough-trimmed, private library stamp to front fee e/paper else fine copy.   Price: $100.00

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501. TURNBULL CLIVE These Tears Of Fire. The story of Frances Adams. Australian poet of the 1880's illus. with title page vign. pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press (circa 1950's) or.cl. pink & b/w. d/w. 8vo. pp.52. The story of briliant radical poet Francis Adams who shared in the formative years of the Labour movement of the 1880's sl. chipped d/w. top of spine faded. Limited to 500 copies.   Price: $45.00
502. VIDLER EDWARD A. Editor. The Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial Volume Limited Edition; illus. with tipped in colour portrait frontispiece, 17 tipped in colour plates, other b/w illustrations throughout. Coloured plates by Penleigh Boyd, Frank Latimer, W. S. Wemyss, Napier Waller, Leslie Wilkie, Will Ashton, Hans Heyson, Gustave Barnes, and others; list of subscribers, published in memory of Adam Linsday Gordon by the Gordon Memorial Committee. Melbourne and Sydney, The Lothian Publishing Co. 1926 or. light blue cl. fore-edge of pages uncut, title in gilt on front and spine, top edge gilt, 4to; pp.LVI.234; Limited Edition of 1000 copies, signed and numbered by president and secretary of the Committee, this being no.551. Minor shelf wear, near fine copy.   Price: $150.00
503. VLEESKENS CORNELIS The Day The River. Poems. published Queensland Uni. of Qld. Press 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.78.  Recent poetry by Dutch born Australian. As mint.   Price: $30.00
504. WALKER KATH We Are Going. Poems. pub. Brisb. Jacaranda Press 1964 April 1st. ed. or. printed paper illustrated brown boards roy.8vo. pp.44. First Edition of the first published volume of verse by an Australian Aboriginal writer- Oodgeroo Noonnuccal. Slightly rubbed to rear board otherwise very good.   Price: $45.00
505. WALKER KATH We Are Going. Poems. pub. Brisb. Jacaranda Press 1964 reprinted October (4 times) or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.44. chipped d/w. Price: $25.00
506. WALKER KATH The Dawn Is At Hand. Poems. pub. Brisb. Jacaranda Press 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. lge.8vo. pp.50.  name  neatly written on title page otherwise near fine.   Price: $35.00
507. WALKER KATH My People. A Kath Walker Collection. profusely illus. t/out. with text dwgs. by Mollie Horseman pub. Qld. Jacaranda Press 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.96.  Oodgeroo Noonuccal, as this author prefers to known now, was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, on Minjerribah (the Aboriginal name for Stradbroke Island, off the east coast of Australia, near Brisbane). Oodgeroo Noonuccal means Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, the traditional owners of the land on Stradbroke. Price clipped, fine copy.   Price: $45.00
508. WANNAN  BILL   (Ed.)    The  Heather  In  The  South.   Lore Literature  and  Balladry of the Scots in  Australia.  with text illus. t/out. pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1966  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.190. Surveys the Scottish influence on Australian life and culture; includes collections of poems and prose, short biographies of famous or infamous Scots, and Scots-influenced ballads; works by Lawson, McCrae, Ogilvie, Furphy, Steele Rudd, Paterson, and many more; also includes two 'Convict Ballads' , another "For the Love of Appin". Very good copy.  Price: $35.00
509. WANNAN BILL Ed. by. The Wearing Of The Green. The Lore, Literature, Legend and Balladry of the Irish in Australia. illus. with 3 pages of dwgs. in the text pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.328. Near fine copy.  Price: $35.00
510. WANNAN BILL Robust Ribald And Rude Verse In Australia. Selected and annotated by Bill Wannan. pub. Melb. Lansdowne 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.124. d/w. & title page by Norman Lindsay. sl. chipped d/w.     Price: $30.00

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511. WARUNG PRICE (WILLIAM ASTLEY) Convict Days. pub. Syd. Aust. Book Soc. 1960 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.206. v/good copy,  first pub. in 1892.    Price: $35.00
512. WARUNG PRICE Tales Of The Isle Of Death. (Norfolk Island). Thirteen stories originally published in 'The Bulletin'. pub. Lond. George Robertson & Co. 'Robertson's Colonial Library' edition 1898 1st.ed. or.cl. glt. to spine cr.8vo. pp.272.XIII. Slight shelf wear, otherwise v/good copy.   Price: $155.00
513. WATSON MICHAEL J. Lyrics Of Innocence. Poetry; illus. with frontis. & 3 plates pub. Syd. Cornstalk Pub. 1925 or. grey cl. 8vo. square pp.64. Very good copy.   Price: $25.00
514. WEBBY ELIZABETH and Gillian Sykes (Edited by) Walter and Mary. The Letters of Walter and Mary Richardson. illus. with 12 pages of black-and-white photographs and facsimiles of letters, family trees, conversion tables, index. pub. Melbourne Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press 2000 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.278. Walter and Mary wrote to each other between 1854 and 1877 with surprising frankness. Aspects of their relationship were used in their daughter's classic trilogy 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney'. Henry Handel Richardson and her later biographers, however, tended to focus more on the man than on the woman. Very fine.   Price: $35.00
515. WEST MORRIS Daughter Of Silence. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. cr.8vo. pp.274. Novel set in Tuscany which has the murderer of the Mayor on trial. price clipped, short closed tear to top of d/w. slight browning/spotting to page edges otherwise v/good.   Price: $35.00
516. WHITE PATRICK The Living And The Dead. pub. Lond. Eyre and Spottiswoode 1962 (first pub. in 1941) or.cl. white and red illus. d/w. by Sydney Nolan, 8vo. pp.336.  slight browning to spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $50.00
517. WHITE  PATRICK    The  Tree  Of  Man.  pub.  Lond.  Eyre   & Spottiswoode 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.499. Very slight foxing, slight shelf wear at extremities top & bottom of spine, price clipped otherwise near fine.   Price: $145.00
518. WHITE  PATRICK    The  Tree  Of  Man.  pub.  Lond.  Eyre   & Spottiswoode 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.499. minor foxing, little wear to extremities, price clipped otherwise v/good.   Price: $75.00
519. WHITE  PATRICK Voss. pub. Lond. Eyre &  Spottiswoode  1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.478. In the year 1845 Johann Ulrich Voss sets out to cross the Australian continent for the first time. He collects around himself a small party of settlers and two aboriginals, and pushes inland from the coast. The expedition encounters every kind of obstacle and hardship. d/w. very sl. browned to  spine, small mark to rear of d/w. price clipped, else v/good.   Price: $125.00
520. WHITE PATRICK Riders In The Chariot. pub. London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.552.  (dustwrapper by Sydney Nolan). 8vo. pp.552. A fine copy in price clipped d/w.   Price: $85.00
521. WHITE  PATRICK   The  Solid  Mandala.  pub.  Lond.  Eyre  & Spottiswoode  1966  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.317 tinted end papers, dustwrapper designed by Desmond Digby. Price clipped, hint of shelf wear to upper cloth otherwise near fine.   Price: $80.00
522. WHITE  PATRICK  The Vivisector. pub. Lond.  Jonathan  Cape 1970  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.642.   d/w. price clipped, edges, trifle shelf wear otherwise near fine.   Price: $75.00
523. WHITE  PATRICK   The Vivisector.  pub.  N.Y.  1970  1st.ed. (1st American edition). or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.567.   Fine copy. Price: $85.00

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524. WHITE PATRICK The Eye Of The Storm. pub. Lond. Johnathan Cape 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.608. Dustwrapper by watercolourist Desmond Digby. Novel of power and dependency, the ultimate nuances of love and hatred that fester beneath the surfaces of family relationships'. Price clipped, fine copy.   Price: $50.00
525. WHITE PATRICK The Eye Of The Storm. pub. Lond. Johnathan Cape 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.608. Dustwrapper by watercolourist Desmond Digby. Novel of power and dependency, the ultimate nuances of love and hatred that fester beneath the surfaces of family relationships'. Insect mark to rear of d/w. else fine copy.   Price: $35.00
526. WHITE PATRICK The Cockatoos. pub. Lond. Cape 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.307. chip to d/w.    Price: $45.00      Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
527. WHITE PATRICK A Fringe Of Leaves. pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.405. Novel set in Australian colonial days, based on the true story of Eliza Fraser who was shipwrecked, captured by natives, and rescued by an escaped convict. Price clipped, minor shelf wear, near fine copy.   Price: $50.00
528. WHITE PATRICK The Twyborn Affair. pub. G.B. J. Cape 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.432. "The wealthy, middle-aged Australian, Mrs. E. Boyd Golson, victim of her social and sexual doubts, was stirred by the mere glimpse of the romantic Eudoxia." Very fine.   Price: $40.00
529. WHITE PATRICK Flaws In The Glass. A self portrait. pub. Lond. Johnathan Cape 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.252. Very fine copy.   Price:  $45.00
530. WHITE  PATRICK   Memoirs Of Many In One. By  Alex  Xenophon Demirjian  Gray. Edited by Patrick White. pub.  Lond. Jonathan  Cape  1986  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. The author's last novel, written in the form of a memoir. fine.   Price: $35.00
531. WHITE  PATRICK   Memoirs Of Many In One. By  Alex  Xenophon Demirjian  Gray. Edited by Patrick White. pub.  USA Viking  1986  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. The author's last novel, written in the form of a memoir. fine. Price: $35.00
532. WHITE PATRICK A Life. Biography by Davis Marr. illus. with 16  full  page plates t/out. pub. Syd.  Random  House  1991 or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.728. Very good copy.   Price: $40.00
533. WHITE  PATRICK  Letters  Ed. by  David  Marr.  illus.  with frontis. & 10 full page plates t/out. text dec. by Spooner pub.  Syd.  Random  House 1994  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.678. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
534. WHITEMAN JOHN Sparks And Sounds From A Colonial Anvil. illus. with frontis. & 1 plate by Charles Turner (lithographic plates), and decorations. pub. Melb. George Robertson 1873 1st. ed. with elaborate glt.dec.cl. cr.8vo. pp.XII.196. pp.12 advts. Author contributed to Punch, The Australasian and the Beacon. Gift inscription dated 1873 to f/free e/paper, fine signed by author.   Price: $125.00
535. WILDE WILLIAM H. JOY HOOTAN BARRY ANDREWS The Oxford Companion To Australian Literature.  Concise & comprehensive account of Australian writing from the first settlement on 1788 to the early 1980's. pub. Melb Oxford Uni. Press 1986 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.760. fine.   Price: $45.00
536. WILEY REBECCA Rebecca Wiley's Visit To Norman Lindsay At Springwood May 1918. profusely illus. t/out. in col. & b/w. some full page. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.130. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
537. WILKINSON MARY E. Gathered by. Gleanings From Australasian Verse. Love Poems. illus. with vign. or. wrapper over stiff card, pub. Melbourne Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, n.d c. 1920’s cr.8vo. pp.128; A very good copy.     Price: $30.00
538. WILKES G.A.    A Dictionary Of Australian Colloquialisms  pub. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.370.or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.182 This dictionary offers a systematic guide to the colourful idioms of Australian English. Each entry is supported by citations, to provide not simply a list of Australian colloquial terms, but also a record of their use. Fine.    Price: $40.00
539. WOLLASTON TULLIE C. The Spirit Of The Child illus. with 6 colour plates with tissue guards, 4 depict beautifully coloured opal stones, 5 b/w plates, catalogue of books at rear; pub. Melbourne Lothian May, 1914 1st. ed. or. blue cloth gilt tree on front board and smaller illustration on spine, 8vo. square, top edge gilt, pp.228 and 12 publisher's advertisements. Includes opals & opal mining. The earlier chapters are nationalistic, Australian flora & fauna, combined with the authors poetry, and letters. Slightly flecked v/good copy.   Price: $300.00
540. WRIGHT DAVID McKEE An Irish Heart. illus. with frontis. decorated end-papers, pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1918 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo.obl. X.138. 4p.advts. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, little browned to spine else v/good copy.   Price: $35.00
541. WRIGHT JUDITH The Generations Of Men. illus. with frontis. 1 map and several text dwgs. t/out. by Alison Forbes pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1959 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. Story of her forebears in Australia, who were pioneers of the wine-growing and cattle-raising industries in New South Wales and Queensland. Slight chip to rear of d/w. else fine.   Price: $45.00
542. WRIGHT JUDITH The Moving Image. Poems. pub. Melbourne Folios of Australian poetry The Meanjin Press 1965 wrappers. 8vo. pp.34.  Slightly browned to wrappers else very good.   Price: $20.00

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543. WRIGHT JUDITH Poems by Judith Wright. The Other Half. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1968 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.52. Dustwrapper slightly insect marked to fore-edge otherwise very good.   Price: $25.00
544. WRIGHT JUDITH Collected Poems 1942-1970. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.302. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper else v/fine copy.  Price: $50.00.  Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
545. WRIGHT JUDITH Because I Was Invited. Collection of prose over twenty years 1954 to 1974. pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 12975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.258.  A collection of the author's prose writings about her concerns as a writer, poet and early leader of Australia's conservation movement over twenty years from 1954. Near fine copy.   Price: $65.00
546. WRIGHT JUDITH Text by W.N. Scott. Focus On Judith Wright. illus. with 8 text plates pub. Brisb. Uni. of Qld. Press (Artists in Queensland Series) 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to.obl. pp.56.  Near fine copy.    P rice:  $35.00

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547. WRIGHT JUDITH -  Half A Life Time. edited by Patricia Clarke illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Text Pub. Co. 1999 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.296. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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