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There are 275 books in this catalogue.
Ian Fleming : The Complete Man
Shakespeare, Nicholas
Book Number: 68242
ISBN: 9781787302426
Publisher: Harvill Secker, London 2023.
8vo. softcover. 821pp. index, b/w plates. Near Fine.
Price: $18.00


A man of Sydney: An appreciation of Kenneth Slessor
Stewart, Douglas Alexander
Book Number: 38464
ISBN: 0170051498
Publisher: Melbourne Nelson 1977
8vo hardcover 191pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Bibliography: p. 176-185. Includes index.
Price: $8.00


Churchill.
Jenkins, Roy
Book Number: 61848
ISBN: 0333782909
Publisher: Macmillam. London 2001.
8vo. hardcover. 1002pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good. / very good+ d/w. Signed by author.
Price: $35.00


Louis Becke.
Day, A. Grove.
Book Number: 68160
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 176pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography
Coldstream, John [Dirk Bogarde]
Book Number: 68138
ISBN: 0297607308
Publisher: Weidenfeld And Nicolson, Uk, 2004
8vo. hardcover. 628pp. index, colour illus. Very good, light toning to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Secrets behind My Smile
Dally-Watkins, June
Book Number: 68116
ISBN: 0670041726
Publisher: Camberwell, Vic. Penguin 2002.
8vo softcover 280pp index, b/w illus. good, pages toned, owner's name on fep.
Price: $15.00


The Life of Katherine Anne Porter
Givner, Joan
Book Number: 31875
ISBN: 0224020935
Publisher: Cape 1983
8vo hardcover 572pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00


The Secrets Behind My Smile
Dally-Watkins, June - With Louise Gee
Book Number: 68031
ISBN: 0670910783
Publisher: Viking 2012
8vo. Hardcover in d/w. 280pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, pages toned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


A Life of John Keats
Hewlett, Dorothy
Book Number: 67923
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hurst & Blackett Limited, London 1938.
8vo. hardcover. 408pp. index, b/w plates. Good, small tear on rear bottom cover edge, foxing to prelims and endpapers. / Very good d/w. Revised and enlarged edition.
Price: $12.00


The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell.
Salter, Elizabeth.
Book Number: 67918
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Bodley Head, London, 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 208pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Good d/w rubbed and creased on edges with small tears on spine ends.
Price: $12.00


Taken Care Of. An Autobiography
Sitwell, Edith
Book Number: 67921
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co., London, 1965.
8vo. hardcover. 192pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, small mark on ege of text-block. / Good, torn and creased d/w.
Price: $12.00


Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Gerson, Noel B.
Book Number: 67919
ISBN: 
Publisher: William Morrow, New York 1973
8vo. hardcover. 280pp. index, b/w frontis. Very good. / Very good d/w with tiny chips on spine ends.
Price: $15.00


W. H. Hudson - A Portrait
Roberts, Morley
Book Number: 67904
ISBN: 
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1924.
8vo. hardcover. 310pp. index. Very good.
Price: $20.00


James Branch Cabell
Van Doren, Carl
Book Number: 67903
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Literary Guild, New York 1932.
8vo. hardcover. 89pp. b/w illus. Good, pages toned, foxing to plate, wear to top of spine.
Price: $12.00


Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
Di Robilant, Andrea
Book Number: 67882
ISBN: 9781782399384
Publisher: Atlantic Books, London, 2018.
8vo. hardcover. 348pp. index,b/w ilus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


Home Truths A Memoir
Williamson, David
Book Number: 67877
ISBN: 9781460759530
Publisher: HarperCollins, Sydney, 2021.
8vo. hardcover. 424pp. index, colour plates. Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $15.00


Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a Narrative of the Events of His Life
Campbell, James Dykes
Book Number: 67845
ISBN: 0902441019
Publisher: Highgate, Lime Tree Bower Press, London, 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 319pp. index, b/w frontis. Very good+, light foxing to top edge of text-block. / no d/w.
Price: $22.00


Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
Campbell, James Dykes
Book Number: 67846
ISBN: 0902441000
Publisher: Highgate, Lime Tree Bower Press, London, 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 516pp. index, b/w frontis, 1 b/w plate. Very good+, light foxing to top edge of text-block. / no d/w.
Price: $22.00


Dorothy and William Wordsworth: The Heart of a Circle of Friends.
Manley, Sean.
Book Number: 67807
ISBN: 0814907105
Publisher: The Vanguard Press, New York 1974.
8vo. hardcover. 241pp, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to edge of text-block. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


Trelawny : the incurable romancer
St. Clair, William
Book Number: 66645
ISBN: 0719534240
Publisher: John Murray, London 1977.
8vo hardcover 235pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


Robert Louis Stevenson at Davos
Lockett, W. G.
Book Number: 67777
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., London n.d. Circa 1934.
8vo. hardcover. 304pp. b/w plates. Good, foxed, owner's inscription on fep. / no d/w.
Price: $25.00


Last Witness for
Caldwell, Elise Noble; [Robert Louis Stevenson]
Book Number: 67773
ISBN: 
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
8vo. hardcover. 384pp. b/w plates. Very good. / Good+ d/w rubbed on corners.
Price: $25.00


The Violent Friend: The Story of Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson 1840-1914
Mackay, Margaret
Book Number: 67770
ISBN: 
Publisher: J.M. Dent and Sons, London 1968.
8vo. softcover. 370pp. b/w plates. Good, covers faded, corners a little dog-eared. This edition is and abridgment of the 1968 U.S. edition. Uncorrected proof.
Price: $20.00


Jack Davis : a life-story
Chesson, Keith
Book Number: 67702
ISBN: 0867700750
Publisher: Melbourne Dent 1988
8vo hardcover 211pp, b/w map. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $14.00


Mary Wollstonecraft: Her Life and Times
Nixon, E.
Book Number: 67662
ISBN: 046003975x
Publisher: J.M. Dent, London, 1971.
8vo. hardcover. 271pp. b/w plates. Very good, light toning to the edge of plates. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


I CAN HEAR THE HORSES
GIFFORD, Margaret
Book Number: 67615
ISBN: 0454006322
Publisher: Sydney. Methuen. 1983.
8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. 175pp. b/w plates. Autobiography of Sydney born woman, Margaret Allen. 1896-1983. Very good, owner's name and stamp on fep. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


Miles Franklin : her brilliant career
Roderick, Colin
Book Number: 67535
ISBN: 0727016962
Publisher: Adelaide Rigby 1982
4to hardcover 199pp index, b/w illus. Near Fine. / very good+ d/w.
Price: $10.00


THE LIZ MULLINAR STORY
Liz & Hopkinson, Simon Mullinar
Book Number: 67459
ISBN: 073360482X
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 1997
8vo hardcover in d/w. 301pp very good. Index. Illustrated with in-text b&w photo''s.
Price: $10.00


Edward Lear and His World
Lehmann, John
Book Number: 67393
ISBN: 0500130612
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London, 1977.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 128pp. b/w illus. Very good, top and bottom cover edges sunned, small chip on top cover edge.. / Very good, faded d/w.
Price: $10.00


The Hawke Memoirs
Bob Hawke
Book Number: 67358
ISBN: 0855615028
Publisher: WHA 1994
8vo. hardcover. 618pp. Index. Illustrated. Very good, light toning to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $9.00



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