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1 NEW CENTURY ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS Catalogue Fifty-Five

2 CATALOGUE NUMBER FIFTY-FIVE SUMMER 2012 Books are offered subject to prior sale at the nett prices in Australian dollars. All prices include Australian Federal Government Goods and Services Tax. Freight and insurance are extra and will be added to your invoice. Overseas customers will be invoiced in Australian dollars and are requested to remit payment in Australian dollars only. Books will be sent by airmail. Orders may be left at any time on our 24-hour answer phone (03) (International ) or by or or by mail to PO Box 325 KEW VICTORIA 3101 AUSTRALIA We accept Mastercard and Visa. Please advise card number, ccv number, expiry date, and name as it appears on your card. Payment is due on receipt of books. Customers not known to us may be sent a pro forma invoice. Any item may be returned within five days of receipt if we are notified immediately. Normal trade courtesies are observed where a reciprocal arrangement exists. Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers Printed, typeset and bound in Australia for New Century Antiquarian Books. Copyright Jonathan Wantrup All rights reserved. No part of this publication my be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of New Century Antiquarian Books.

3 Also included in the volume are two of the earliest printed pieces relating to the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition. At the end of the volume are the printed reports of various committees, including the second and third reports of the Exploration Committee of the Institute dated May and September 1858; it was this committee that went on the establish and organise the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition and these two reports record the seminal early phases of the preparations. 1. GELLIBRAND, Joseph Tice. Memoranda of a Trip to Port Phillip in 1836, addressed to His Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor... [contained in] Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria... Vol. III. Octavo, pp. viii, 120, [ii], lvi (colophon bottom p. lv, last blank) + 16 (Laws of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, with its own 1858 title-page; last blank) + folding plan, two lithographed natural history plates (one handcoloured) by Ludwig Becker, two lithographed plates by A.J. Stopps, four folding tables; bottom of the spine little worn but an excellent copy in original printed thin green boards. Melbourne, Philosophical Institute of Victoria, $330 Scarce: perhaps the most important of the early volumes of this eminent institute, later to become the Royal Society of Victoria. Historically, the Gellibrand paper, describing his first expedition to Port Phillip exploring for the Port Phillip Association, is the most significant article in this volume. Gellibrand was killed by Aborigines near the site of Geelong in the following year while on a similar expedition. 2. [MELBOURNE] The Flood. Elizabeth St. 6 p.m. Decr. 8th 1862 [caption]. Original sepia albumen photographic print, 166 x 116 mounted on amateur card 185 x 120 mm, manuscript caption on the card; some fade (or overexposure, or poorly fixed?) on the left hand side, some spotting, slight abrasion at one point; the card mount toned. [Melbourne, 1862]. $220 An amateur photograph recording one the many summer flash floods suffered in Melbourne s Elizabeth and Swanston Streets throughout the mid-nineteenth century, most

4 of which had fatal consequences for some hapless pedestrians and horses trapped by the sudden downpour. The draining of the swamp at the top of Swanston Street, in the vicinity of the now Melbourne General Cemetery, reduced the severity of these events, although one still remembers the flood in the summer of that saw the low lying parts of Carlton, Fitzroy, and Collingwood under water (the best place for the latter). The photograph looks north from the top storey of the building on the south-west corner of Elizabeth Street and we think Lonsdale Street. February, With the Course of Howitt and Party to trace the remains of the Expedition Lithographed folding map, 507 x 280 mm; old folds with trivial wear at the point of one fold; an excellent example of this rare piece. Melbourne, De Gruchy & Leigh, $3300 This is the very rare separate issue of the De Gruchy & Leigh map that was also included in some very rare issues of the so-called Argus pamphlets describing the expedition. Not in Maria; not in McLaren. 3. [BURKE AND WILLS] DE GRUCHY & LEIGH. Track of the Expedition from Cooper s Creek to Carpentaria by Burke, Wills, King & Gray, which they accomplished on the 11th 4. BATCHELDER & O NEILL. Bishop Perry [and] Mrs. Perry. A fine pair of carte-de-visite style photographs, each about 90 x 50 mm on studio card 105 x 65 mm, contemporary manuscript captions below; a fine pair. Melbourne, Batchelder & O Neill, 57 Collins Street, n.d. but circa $275 An attractive pair of posed studio portraits in carte-de-visite style of Charles Perry, the first Bishop of Melbourne, and his wife, Frances, both important and influential members of the social and cultural life of Melbourne s gold rush community. The portraits, although with different backgrounds, appear to have been taken as a pair. Batchelder & O Neill were the most prominent of the pioneering Melbourne photographers and to have one s portrait taken by the studio had some social cachet. These two prints are mounted on their discreetly typographic studio card, from their first Melbourne address of 57 Collins Street.

5 5. [MEDICAL] GREATHEAD, Robert. Doctors Superseded by Greathead s Cures for Diphtheria and Scarlet Fevers, &c., &c. Giving full description how to mix and use sulphuric acid, &c., and other medicines and ointments. Octavo, pp. 36; a copy used to debility by its original owner (Mrs. J. Heywood, Yulungah), the wrappers worn and soiled, spine fold reinforced at an early date, the text with stains (legibility unimpaired), and with an acid burn hole surely sulphuric acid as recommended? on the second and third leaf (preliminary matter, happily affecting only a few words on one page (a facsimile of this page enclosed); all in all an appropriately very used copy. Melbourne, Sands and McDougall, $165 Very rare, probably with good reason; as Ford explains: Author divulges his sulphuric acid treatment for diphtheria, scarlet fever, and typhoid. In 1873 he offered to disclose his formula to the Vic[torian] Gov[ernment] for 5000, but this was rejected. Ford, [BOWEN] WILLETT, George. [Governor Sir George Ferguson Bowen]. Carte-de-visite portrait photograph on studio card, printed in gilt; fine. Ballarat, George Willett, n.d. circa 1870s 1880s. $85 A fine carte-de-visite portrait photograph of the greatly admired Governor of Queensland and subsequently of Victoria (1873-9), where he was not so admired. This portrait dates from around the time of his Victorian governorship. 7. GRIFFITH, S.W. and B.D. MOREHEAD. Federation of Australasia: Speeches of the Hon. S.W. Griffith, Q.C., (Premier of Queensland) and B.D. Morehead, Esq., M.L.A., (Acting Leader of the Opposition), 1884 on the Motion for the Adoption of the Draft Federal Council Bill adopted by the Convention held in Sydney in Octavo, pp. 18 (last blank); old cut-flush boards with cloth spine, the wrappers mounted; withdrawn stamp on front board, otherwise fine. Brisbane, Government Printer, $880 Rare. An early pamphlet on Federation from the period when the Federal Council of Australasia was making the first tentative steps towards federal union of the Australasian colonies. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, G.C.M.G., Premier and Chief Justice of Queensland, and was the principal draftsman of the Australian Constitution and one of the leading founding fathers of Federation. Indeed,

6 Federal Convention, 1891, on the Order of the Government of Tasmania. Foolscap folio, pp. [ii], ii, 114, iv + four folding tables, addendum slip; a very good clean copy in contemporary half calf for an institutional library, soundly rebacked with new endpapers. Hobart, At The Mercury Office, $385 Just was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the well-known editor of several handbooks and guides to Tasmania. The present work was not a parliamentary paper, although printed in that characteristic format. Ferguson, if it were not for his energetic work preparing the draft Constitution at the time of the first Convention, it is doubtful that the course of Federation would have run as it did. He went on to become the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Ferguson [MEDICAL] HOFF, August (August DUCKERSHOFF). The Skin in Health and Disease. Octavo, pp. 64 (last blank), woodcut illustration; ink stain in margin, original russet cloth (a few stains), front board blocked in gilt, very good. Sydney, L. Bruck, $330 August Hoff, as he preferred to be known in Australia, was trained Germany and specialised in diseases of the skin and larynx, and was described as the only pure specialist in such diseases throughout the Aust. Colonies... (Ford). He appears to have been the first skin specialist in Australia. Ford, JUST, Thomas C. Leading Facts connected with Federation. Compiled for the Information of the Tasmanian Delegates to the Australasian 10. WARUNG, Price [William ASTLEY]. Tales of the Early Days. Octavo, pp. viii (first leaf integral blank), 294 (last blank), [2] (integral blank); endpapers tanned as often, early bookseller s stamp on the title (Dymock); original pictorial yellowback boards, extremities a little rubbed but an uncommonly good example of this yellowback. Melbourne, George Robertson, $125 First edition of Astley s second collection of Price Warung stories, first published in the Bulletin. Born in Liverpool, England, but brought to

7 Melbourne, Australia, at the age of three months, William Astley became a journalist in Melbourne in 1875, trekking over much of south-eastern Australia over the next fifteen years. Settling in Sydney in 1890 he became a leading radical journalist and short-story writer under his now better-known pen-name, Price Warung. His famous series of convict tales, breathing hatred of the long-past convict System were first published in the Bulletin. His rare first book, Tales of the Convict System, had been published by the Bulletin as the second of their one-shilling Bulletin series in A series of disputes led to his leaving the Bulletin and, although he reestablished his relationships with both Archibald and Broomfield, his later books were all published in Melbourne by George Robertson. Astley played a leading and much-praised role in the early nationalist movement but his personal life fell apart as the 1890s progressed. Dogged by ill-health, which had first struck in 1878, he steadily declined into poverty after 1893, becoming addicted to morphia and living in reclusive invalidity until his death in The early period of this decline was, nevertheless, his most productive with all but one of his five books published between 1894 and [SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE AND RAILWAY] Sydney and its City Railway. Is there to be, with its Extension, a Filching of Public Rights, Vandalism and Half-Measures... or A scheme which gives the Maximum of Accommodation to the Travelling Public, and at the same time Improves and Adorns our Capital City... A North Shore Bridge being included in it. A Dialogue on Sydney Matters between Sydney Cornstalk and His Cousin Jonathan [wrapper title]. Octavo; pp. 28 (wrappers included in the pagination); spine fold of the friable original titling-wrappers a little worn but sound, a very good copy. Sydney, Dunn & Co. Typ., Queen s Place [for The Author], n.d. but $330 Rare: written in the form of a dialogue between a Sydneysider and a visiting American. In 1896 the government gave serious attention to the regular question of a bridge to the North Shore, making it one of the important years in the long history of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The anonymous writer, who addresses his pamphlet to Premier George Houston Reid, shows a close professional knowledge of matters relating to engineering and associated costs, suggesting that the author may be one of several local engineers then urging a city railway and bridge. The American leaves saying Our people, who built your Hawkesbury Bridge, will put it [i.e. a bridge] down at a very low price just now; let me have a copy of those two estimates you spoke about. The estimates, which follow on the page (i.e. the back wrapper verso), shows a saving of half-a-million pounds, or about twenty percent, if the scheme favoured by the author were adopted (which more or less it would be decades later). Ferguson,

8 12. WARUNG, Price [William ASTLEY]. Tales of the Old Regime and the Bullet of the Fated Ten. Octavo, pp. viii, 248; original ungrained brown and white streaked cloth, spine and front board lettered and ruled in black; the edges lightly tanned but very good. Melbourne, George Robertson, $125 First edition of Astley s third book, by some considered his best collection of convict stories. 13. MICHAELIS, Moritz. Chapters from the Story of My Life. Octavo, pp frontispiece photographic portrait; near fine in original red roan (trivial rubbing), the front board lettered and decorated in gilt, both boards decorated in blind. Melbourne, Norman Bros., Printers, $880 First edition: a rare piece of early Australian Judaica and of substantial Melbourne local history interest. Michaelis s book, published for private distribution in the author s family, records the life of an extraordinary man. German-born and English-trained, Michaelis came to Australia in the gold rush era to represent a Manchester firm. He and his partners survived several reverses of fortune to build a highly successful retail and leather goods manufacturing business in Melbourne. His house Linden in St. Kilda is one of Melbourne s architectural treasures. Michaelis, always subject to poor health, died in 1902, a few years after publishing these memoirs. Full details of his life and wide-ranging interests and involvement in the Victorian community will be found in ADB 5: 245-6, and in Walsh and Hooton 2: Several facsimile editions of varying quality have been printed in recent years but this original edition is almost never seen, with less than a handful of copies in institutional collections. Not in Ferguson; Liberman and Young, F1106.

9 14. COCKBURN, Sir John A. Australian Federation With a preface by The Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke Octavo, pp. [vi], 250; endpapers foxed, good in used original cloth. London, Horace Marshall & Son, $220 First edition. 15. [FEDERATION]. Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Bill. Reprint of the Debates in Parliament, the Official Correspondence with the Australian Delegates, and other papers. Large octavo, pp. 200 (last blank); some use, a little foxing, but very good in the original cloth. London, Wyman & Sons, 1900 [but 1901]. $550 Very scarce: first edition of this important piece in the history of the Australian Constitution, this comprises a complete record of the passage of the Constitution through the parliament at Westminster, including the official transcript of the debates. A former owner has tipped in some unused pre- Federation Tasmanian postage stamps at p BROOME, Lady Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Octavo, pp. [ii] (blank), xxii, 420 (last blank), [10] (advertisements); entirely uncut in original primary blue cloth, a degree of handling and some light soiling but a good used copy. London, Smith, Elder, and Co., $220 First edition: extremely scarce. Memoirs of the wife of Sir Frederick Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia. 17. SMITH, Senator Staniforth. Germany in the Pacific: and an account of British New Guinea and the Solomon Islands Octavo, pp. 16, double-column; general light use, very good in original salmon pink wrappers. Sydney, F. Cunninghame & Co., Printers, $330 First edition: rare. A densely-printed pamphlet reprinting articles contributed to the Sydney Daily Telegraph by Senator Staniforth Smith, an active and effective proponent of colonisation in British New Guinea.

10 18. MACKIE, John. In Search of Smith. With twenty-two illustrations by R. Caton Woodville. Octavo, pp. 294, [2] (colophon, verso blank) + 22 leaves of plates; last couple of leaves a little spotted, very good in spine-darkened original colour-pictorial blue cloth. London, Grant Richards, $880 Rare first edition: frontier adventure fiction (Queensland and Northern Territory). 19. FLYNN, John. Northern Territory and Central Australia. A Call to the Church. Octavo, pp. [ii], 46, [2] (colophon, verso blank) + 16 leaves of plates, and a large folding map; neat contemporary ownership inscription, an excellent copy in original wrappers (spine tanned and little soiled), the tear-out Bush Brigade application slips at the end excised.. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, $275 Scarce: first and only edition of Flynn s detailed account of the Northern Territory. Flynn devoted his life to the people of the remote outback, most notably through his world-leading Flying Doctor Service. This important book began as a report to the Home Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church based on Flynn s tour from Darwin as far south as Katherine River, west to Daly River, east to the outskirts of Pine Creek, and by sea to Adelaide River and Bathurst Island in July and August It has become a classic description of conditions in Central and Northern Australia at the turn of the century.

11 20. FLYNN, John. Proof Copy Only Confidential Northern Territory and Central Australia. Our Home Mission Problem. Octavo, pp. 46, [2] (colophon, verso blank) + 16 leaves of plates, and a double-page sketch map; neat contemporary ownership inscription of John Burgess on the front wrapper, an excellent copy in original wrappers. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, n.d. but $990 Very rare: preliminary proof printing of Flynn s detailed report on the Northern Territory, intended for private circulation only among members of Assembly, The proof printing differs in several respects from the published edition (see above). The main changes are the rewording of the subtitle to a more positive form; the dating of the piece on wrapper and title-page; the addition of preliminary matter to replace the brief notice on one leaf here by Chairman John Ferguson, entailing the addition of one leaf to the preliminaries with Flynn s address to his coreligionists; the replacement of the simple double-page map at page 40 with a large and more detailed map; the tear-out Bush Brigade application slips at the end of the published piece were, naturally, not included here; the wrapper are morocco-grain paper but are ungrained in the published version. There may be other small variations in the text but these are the substantial differences between the proof and the published pamphlet.

12 21. BASEDOW, Herbert. Journal of the Government North-West Expedition. Octavo, pp. [ii], [57] leaves of plates, and a large folding map; a very good, clean copy in original grey-green wrappers, the spine a little sunned and rubbed at the extremities. Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, $660 An author s presentation copy of the first edition of the official account of this important scientific and anthropological expedition under the leadership of L.A. Wells that linked together the areas traversed by the Horn and Elder Expeditions. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front wrapper. Basedow s narrative comprises the diary journal of this 1903 expedition, which was primarily a search for minerals to the Musgrave, Petermann, Tomkinson and Mann Ranges. It includes his detailed observations of the land explored, the Aborigines, and the natural history of the country traversed. Not in ANB; Greenway, 729 (periodical printing only); Mills, Q1A. 22. GRAHAME, Stewart [Graeme WILLIAMS]. Nya Australien: Dar Socialismen Misslyckats. Small quarto, pp. 32, with six photographic illustrations of New Australia ; an excellent copy in original illustrated wrappers. Stockholm, Ehrnfried Nybergs, $220 Most uncommon: first and only translation into another language (Swedish) of Grahame s New Australia: Where Socialism Failed; included is a translation of the 1893 Cooperative Association articles. A savage account of William Lane s starry-eyed Paraguayan utopian communist colony of New Australia by this disillusioned and disgruntled settler. 23. PRICHARD, Katharine Susannah. The Pioneers. Octavo, pp frontispiece; extremities of the boards a bit worn, very good in original very pale blue decorated series cloth. London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1915]. $275 First edition of Prichard s first novel, winner of Hodder and Stoughton s 250 prize for the best Australasian novel. This copy is in the rare variant binding of the publisher s Ex Libris series.

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14 24. NOLL, Corporal Hermann Albert Autograph manuscript service diary, 28 August July mo, stock notebook, ruled, pencil manuscript; original green morocco with ribbon closure, all edges gilt, the binding with a degree of expected rubbing and wear but sound; in very good state. South Australia, At Sea, England, and France, $880 A now rarely seen personal war diary of an Australian digger in the First World War. No Corporal Hermann Albert Noll, D Company, 39th Battalion A.I.F., enlisted 23 June 1916, returned to Australia 27 May Noll used the name Bert or Albert in preference to Hermann, which of course indicated his German heritage, something to be denied or obscured at that time. After the war Noll farmed at Wilmington, South Australia, in the Lower Flinders Ranges, the place where he was born. The first 26 pages are devoted to a closely written diary, headed Trip Europe 1916, documenting his service during the First World War, with each entry written in pencil and dated. Entries are generally terse and note the major facts and events of his war service. His record and observations of events include: departing Australia from Outer Harbour, South Australia; burial at sea of lieutenant who succumbed to meningitis; military sports stopover in South Africa; arrival at Plymouth England and transfer to the 39th Battalion; deployment to Havres, France; first engagement with enemy in line at Armentieres; mustard gas attacks; hit with whiz-bang and sustained injuries requiring immediate operation; return to England for further hospitalisation; visits to Glasgow, Scotland, and recuperation time in London, deployment back to the trenches at the Somme; heart thumping excitement amid heavy artillery and gas attack; clearing trenches after battle; rest and recovery fishing near Bray Compound; return to England and then returned to Australia. The remainder of the diary is blank. Also included are two original portrait photographs: portrait of Hermann Albert Noll in military uniform and a second photograph of a young Bert pictured with sister, Lydia. Both photographs mounted on studio card. 25. STOW, Catherine, and Catherine WRIGHT. A Gardening Calendar. Quarto, pp. 48; original wrappers a little marked and overlapping edges a little worn but a very good, sound copy. Adelaide, Hassell, $165 The extremely scarce first edition of a typical calendar of sowing notes and pages set out to be filled in by the gardener with his or her notes. It is one of few publications of this sort. I have not located the 1st edition" (Crittenden). Catherine Stow (also writing as K. Langloh Parker) is better known as the author of books on the Aborigines (Australian Legendary Tales, Woggheehuy, Walkabouts of Wur-runnah, and The Euahlayi Tribe, etc). Crittenden, 118 (undated second edition only). 26. CUTTRISS, George Percival. Over The Top with the Third Australian Division... With an Introduction by Major- General Sir John Monash. Octavo, pp. 140, [4] (blanks) + eight leaves of plates, with linedrawings by Neil McBeath; bit embrowned, original illustrated cloth a bit soiled, a good copy. London, Charles H. Kelly, [1918]. $185 First edition. Dornbusch, 263.

15 27. WESTON, Harry J. The Harry J. Weston Postal School of Drawing. Lesson No. 1 [ 18]. 23 parts (i.e. 18 lessons and 5 supplementary lessons), foolscap folio, each with a page or two of duplicated typescript and a folding plate (a couple with two plates; the last three lessons each with a colour plate); in original printed wrappers, fastened at the top; a few stains or blemishes, barely disfiguring, an excellent, mainly fine, set. Sydney, circa $2200 Extremely rare. The complete course of eighteen lessons, complemented by five supplementary lessons (Nos. 5A, 7A, 8A, 9A and 12A). The only set for which we have found a record in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales comprises lessons 1 to 8, and 9 17 only (i.e. lacking 9 and 18), and with supplementary lessons 8A, 9A and 12A only (i.e. lacking 5A and 7A). Lesson 18 completes the course, where the further four lessons paid for are announced to be critiques of their drawings to be sent in by the students. Students are encouraged to send their efforts with the promise of positive criticism. These four lessons were not published but comprised drawings returned with annotation to individual students. Weston was a highly regarded Australian commercial artist, with numerous important commissions for advertisements, posters, magazine covers, postcards, and book illustration. In the early years of the century Weston and Blamire Young are credited with revitalising Australian poster art. When he began this school in about 1919, the Australian public was very familiar with his work through his striking wartime propaganda posters and his ubiquitous postcards (still highly esteemed and well collected). Weston was perforce quite entrepreneurial. He worked in an architectural firm in Launceston, later becoming a staff artist on the Launceston Examiner ( ); in 1898 he went to Melbourne, where he designed posters for Dunlop Rubber and Boomerang Brandy with Lionel Lindsay and Blamire Young. By 1901 he had established his own advertising agency, the Weston Company, which was still

16 operating successfully three decades later. He moved to Sydney in about 1905 and remained there for the rest of his life. As an artistillustrator he undertook commissions for illustrations and advertisements for the Lone Hand, the New South Wales Bookstall Company, and the Bulletin. In 1912 he established the Practical School of Art, setting up this correspondence school in drawing after the war. His school was, naturally enough, commercially inclined. Newspaper advertisements asserted that there is money in the pen and that Weston s course would teach to draw not to copy. Beginning with the simple basics through to colour work, with lessons along the way dealing with display lettering and the arrangement of advertisements, all the illustration is Weston s own work, although one or two lessons, especially the lesson on drawing for reproduction, use identified examples by John Hassall, Hans Heysen, Norman Lindsay, Bernard Partridge, and Alek Sass. 28. MURRAY, Lieutenant-Governor J.H.P. Report by His Excellency the Lieut.-Governor of Papua to the Minister for Home and Territories on an Article on Three Power Rule in New Guinea by Rinzo Gond. Foolscap folio, pp. 12; a good copy in modern binder s cloth. Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, $165 Very scarce: a detailed defence against accusations by Gond that the Australian administration was inferior to the pre-war German administration of Papua. Gond s criticism, written from the point of view of a colonial entrepreneur, is fundamentally opposed to Murray s constantly restated policy that any colony must be administered for the benefit of the native populations and not for the sake of European exploiters. 29. MURRAY, Lieutenant-Governor J.H.P Review of the Australian Administration in Papua from 1907 to Foolscap folio, pp. x, 34 (last blank); very good copy bound in neat recent binder s cloth. Port Moresby, Edward George Baker, Government Printer, $550 A rare Port Moresby imprint: an important document by the great proconsul and father of modern Papua New Guinea. Murray examines the progress of his administration over the preceding dozen years, both in relation to the establishment of the white settler population and the care and advancement of the native population under his control. The review was undertaken at the end of the war, which had effectively halted any progress in his plans for the development of the colony, and is in some ways a blueprint for what he hoped would be the colony s future. 30. WALDER S LTD. Tent Tarpaulin & Horse Rug Manufacturers... Oilskin & Macintosh Manufacturers [wrapper title]. Quarto, pp. 20, printed entirely in blue, with illustrations throughout; one leaf partly loose at the spine fold, a used but really quite good copy in original tilting-wrapper. Sydney, Walder s Limited, $220 Uncommon: the wrapper title continues "Canvas, Flags, Folding Stretchers, Twine, Rope, Halters, Plough Lines", which gives a good account of the contents of this wideranging and pleasantly illustrated catalogue.

17 condition of his copies of this book: both of these copies are rather soiled but the book is not easily found and must be taken as offered. 31. NEILSON, John Shaw. Ballad and Lyrical Poems. Small octavo, pp. 112; neat contemporary ownership inscription on the endpaper, a very good copy in original stripped pastel green and pink boards, these a little spotted and lightly stained, green cloth spine with paper label (little chipped), top edge trimmed, others uncut. Sydney, The Bookfellow in Australia, $660 Rare: the ordinary issue of the first edition. Of this issue only two hundred and fifty copies were printed of which as many as fifty were never issued. This is a problematic book perhaps Neilson s rarest apart from his leaflet juvenilia and an unknown number of the fifty copies (of seventy-five) of the special limited large paper edition that were paid for and sent to Neilson s patron, Louise Dyer, in Melbourne simply disappeared after she had allegedly left them with a Melbourne bookseller upon her departure to live in Europe. It is also understood that about fifty copies of the ordinary issue were lost when with Dyer. This rare and important volume has always been difficult to find; even Harry Chaplin who was collecting aggressively in an earlier age of unequalled opportunities apologised for the 32. BOYD, Martin. Love Gods by Martin Mills. Octavo, pp. 320; a touch of foxing but an excellent copy in bright original primary purple-lettered black cloth. London, Constable, $880 First edition of Boyd s rare first novel. Martin Boyd had a substantial international career as a novelist in the five decades from the 1920s to the 1960s. It is not too harsh to say that Australians rediscovered him in the 1960s when many of his earlier novels were reprinted and even set on High School English syllabuses. A member of the remarkable Boyd family of artists and writers, he had always attracted the attention of earlier generations of serious Australian collectors but wide appreciation of him dates from that decade and, consequently, his earlier novels have always presented a great challenge.

18 Australia as late as 1923 and As with the joint work of 1912, Across Australia, this book is a general narrative enlivened by anecdote, good-humour, and the personal reflections of a great explorer. Spencer died in 1929 during an expedition to Tierra del Fuego. ANB, 41644; Greenway, SPENCER, Walter Baldwin. Wanderings in Wild Australia. Two volumes, octavo, pp. xxviii, 456 (last colophon only) leaves of plates (eight coloured), two printed tissue guide plates (facing coloured plates VII and VIII), and three folding maps, other maps and illustrations in the text; pp. [ii] (integral blank), xiv, , [2] (integral advertisements) + 99 leaves of plates (eight coloured), and two folding maps, other maps and illustrations in the text; contemporary ownership inscription on endpapers, light general use but very good in original olive green cloth, the spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. London, Macmillan and Co., $1650 First edition of Spencer s most literary work, the narrative of his travels with Gillen to 1912 and, after Gillen s death, alone in Central 34. REYNOLDS, Mrs. W.H. [Rachel Selina REYNOLDS, née PINKERTON]. Pioneering in Australia and New Zealand. Incidents in the life of the late Mrs. W.H. Reynolds, Dunedin, N.Z. as recounted by herself. Octavo, pp. 22, [2] (blank); fine in original wrappers. [Dunedin, New Zealand], Reprinted from The Otago Daily Times, August, $330 Rare: published verbatim from interviews with Mrs Reynolds first in the Otago Daily Times, and then reprinted here to mark the anniversary of her death the previous August. The first half of this closely-printed pamphlet comprise her quite vivid recollections of life in the South Australian backblocks as a child of migrant farmers. The following pages with experiences in New Zealand. Bagnall, R539.

19 35. BRADSHAW, Jack. Highway Robbery Under Arms. Sticking up of the Quirindi Bank without shedding of blood. Octavo, pp. 192 (last blank), illustration; even cheap paper tanning but a fine copy bound with the wrappers in half calf. [Sydney], Tomalin and Wigmore, n.d. but circa $110 Scarce: one of several books published and sold by Bradshaw, an old lag and selfproclaimed last of the Australian bushrangers. His various books and pamphlets comprise largely the same material whatever the title. The wrapper has a further sub-title not on the title-page: Twenty years experience of prison life in the gaols of N.S.W. These reminiscences are included, as well as some of his clumsy verse. 36. [SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE] J. & E. ATKINSON (Australia) Limited. Atkinsons Souvenir Bridge Book. Small quarto, pp. 16, photographic illustrations throughout; internally fine and clean in lightly soiled gilt-printed wrappers. Sydney, Printed by John Sands [for J. & E. Atkinson (Australia) Limited], March $385 An uncommon piece of trade literature and Bridge memorabilia, with photographs by Keast Burke. Sands produced this piece dressing it up in different garb for different Sydney businesses: for Life Savers, for Mick Simmon, for McPherson s, and no doubt for other companies. J. & E. Atkinson were then Australia s preeminent perfumery house. Along the bottom of each page they advertise their wares, illustrated by line drawings. Loosely inserted is a circular from the company presenting the book, dated March 16th 1932, three days before the official opening. 37. [SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE] McPHERSON'S Pty Ltd. Achievement. A collection of unusual studies of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Small quarto, pp. 16, photographic illustrations throughout; internally fine and clean in lightly spotted or soiled colour-printed wrappers. Sydney, Printed by John Sands [for McPherson s Pty Ltd], $330 Another variant of the previous piece of Bridge memorabilia, here under a different title. The completion of the Bridge had a special meaning for McPherson s: inside the front and back wrappers are their advertisements boasting of the five million rivets they supplied for the bridge.

20 38. ROBUR TEA COMPANY. Robur Profit-Sharing Catalogue [wrapper title]. Large octavo, pp. 32 (wrappers included in the pagination, illustrations throughout, mainly near full-page and a number of these in colour; near fine in original titling-wrappers. Melbourne, Robur Tea Company, n.d. but circa $275 The second Robur profit-sharing catalogue, widely and attractively illustrated with tableware of all sorts silver, crystal, china teas services, cutlery, dining settings, vases, napery, egg-holders, strainers Also kitchen ware, even handbags, playing cards, aprons, manicure sets, etc. Early frequent-flyer bonus scheme. It is interesting how carefully Robur explains their scheme is funded by their ability to buy in bulk, arguing that economies of scale rather than excessive profit-making allow them to distribute these rewards for those who loyally accumulate Robur vouchers. The scheme lasted for decades: this is the second of the profit-sharing catalogues ( second edition ), with a ninth issue as late as about 1950, following a curtailment of the programme during the war, no doubt.

21 40. [LASSETER] COOTE, Errol Hampton. Hell s Airport: The Key to Lasseter s Gold Reef. Octavo, pp leaves of plates, and a folding map; original red cloth of the first issue with red edges, the cloth faded and marked as always, a little spotting (as almost always); a very good, sound copy. Sydney, Peterman Press, $330 First edition. Coote s famous and rapidly reprinted account of the fatal 1930 Lasseter expedition, during the course of which he spent six months undertaking the aerial survey as pilot to the expedition. The foreword is by Charles Kingsford Smith. ANB, 10979; Greenway, 2307; Mills, Y [STOKES, Agnes?]. Memoirs of Martha: An Autobiography. Elicited and Edited By her Mistress. Octavo, pp. xx, 332; edges spotted, some use but a good copy in spine-sunned original darkish blue cloth. London, Arthur Barker Ltd, [July] $165 Memoirs of Martha gives a revealing picture of servant life in Victorian high society houses, with equally revealing observations on her masters and mistresses. Apparently based on the oral reminiscences of a real person, it is not unlikely that the account was considerably enhanced, if not embellished, for publication. Walsh and Hooton observe tellingly that writing in the guise of an artless girl, uneducated naïve, honest, and a little silly, Agnes gives intimate and telling glimpses into the characters of her employers and workmates with a skill which belies this characterisation. This is the second impression of July 1933, following the first impression of June No edition in ANB; Walsh and Hooton, 2: NEILSON, John Shaw. Collected Poems. Octavo, pp. xviii (last blank, including frontispiece portrait in the pagination), 178, [2] (blank), [4] (advertisements); original blue cloth, fore- and bottom edges uncut; cloth little used and flecked. Melbourne, Lothian, $330 First edition (ordinary issue): author s presentation copy inscribed by the author To Mrs Davidson with all good wishes, signed and dated 11/6/34. Presentation copies of any of Neilson s books are uncommon. 42. BURDETT, Fred D. The Odyssey of a Digger. Octavo, pp. 316, [4] (advertisements) + 15 leaves of plates; edges a little spotted but an excellent copy in original blue cloth with the very scarce, price-clipped, dustwrapper that is a little soiled and has small defects at the extremities. London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, $385 First edition: one of several travel and adventure books by an almost archetypical professional adventurer. The book includes accounts of gold prospecting in the Kimberleys in 1880s and of the murder of Frank Marriot by Aborigines. Extremely scarce with dustwrapper. ANB, 7420; Bennett et al., p. 186; Greenway, 1703.

22 43. NASON-JONES, James. Map of Part of the Morobe District, New Guinea Mandated Territory, and of the Gulf and Central Divisions, Papua Drawn by J. Nason-Jones at the Lands Office, Port Moresby. Folding map printed in colour, on one sheet 980 x 750 mm, dissected and mounted on linen, as issued, to 1050 x 780 mm folding to 210 x 140 mm in publisher s giltlettered cloth case (slight wear to the joints), fine. Sydney, H.E.C. Robinson, $660 A very scarce and attractive explorer s map, demonstrating, if nothing else, how much of the interior was unknown even at this date, with many blank areas Unexplored. The map was compiled from the surveys and patrols of officers of the governments of both territories, with original mapping and geological data from the prospecting expeditions of J. Nason-Jones. The map also shows oil and gas seepages, gold occurrences, and rock and soil formations. This is a presentation copy of the superior issue, dissected in publisher s cloth ( Price (paper 30/- (linen) 37/6 ), inscribed on the front endpaper Jean from Jim with love always April Little is known of James Nason-Jones. He appears to have fought with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and later was a field geologist for the Anglo- Persian oil company, later for British Petroleum. It is possibly on their account that he ended up in New Guinea. In the early 1930s he was obviously working for the Lands Office in Port Moresby but at the same time pursuing his extensive mining interests, mainly on the Lakekamu Field (at the same time as Jack Hides). According to the Cairns Post (23 November 1934), he held 2250 acres on the Lakakatnu in all on the Aiauwai River, and-3308 acres on the Bubuau River, and In the Walden s Court last week 17 applications for dredging claims were made on behalf of Mr Nason-Jones, and granted subject to the provisions of the Mining Ordinance. These comprised 4318 acres, including 1407 chains of river and creek bed. Five of the claims, totalling 1350 acres, and including 910 chains of river bed, are situated on the Aivavi (or Aiauwi) River, (a tributary of the Tiveri). The remaining 12 claims are on the Bubuau River, about 21 miles east of the Aivavi. The Bubuau areas comprise 2968 acres, including 497 chains of river and creek bed. In August last Mr. Nason-Jones was granted 900 acres on the Aivavi River, including 300 chains of river bed, and 340 acres on the Bubuau River, with 360 chains of river bed. Obviously a gentleman, he was a Vice-President of the Port Moresby Cricket Club (Sir Hubert Murray, Patron). 44. TYRRELL, James R. David Scott Mitchell: a Reminiscence. Octavo, pp. [20], with tipped-in portrait and bookplate; a very good copy in original wrappers, preserved with the original printers envelope (a little distressed) in a folding cloth case, lettered in gilt. Sydney, Sunnybrook Press, $125 Scarce: edition limited to 300 numbered and signed copies.

23 45. FOX & MacGILLYCUDDY Ltd. Foxradio Catalogue Quarto, pp. [8] (index) + [12] (alphabetical price list) + over 100 leaves of promotional flyers (some folding), price-lists, etc., with very numerous illustrations throughout (many in colour); original wrappers with light use, mainly to the overlapping edges, internally fine. Sydney Fox & MacGillycuddy Ltd, $495 Rare: a comprehensive production comprising an introductory index and price listing followed by hundreds of leaves of actual promotional material, price lists, and catalogues from dozens of different manufacturers of, mainly, radiophonic items. As the leading Australian electrical wholesaler, with clients in the quite numerous retail wireless shops and wireless repair shops throughout NSW and beyond, the assemblage in this catalogue represents pretty much all the electrical products available to the public in Most seem to be of Australian manufacture. Foxradio diversified their stock over the course of the 1930s, mirroring the evolution of their retail wireless shop clients into what would become the modern general electrical retailer. In addition to their traditional items they note (in rather large capitals) all standard household electrical appliances stocked. These are included here, although in 1937 hardly an extensive list: irons, food mixers, coffee makers, hairdryers, electric clocks

24 46. CONIGRAVE, Mrs. J. Fairfax [Sarah]. My Reminiscences of the Early Days. Personal Incidents on a Sheep and Cattle Run in South Australia. Where the writer... spent her childhood. Octavo, pp. [2] (front pastedown endpaper), 84, [2] (back pastedown endpaper) + four leaves of plates and a folding map; original papered boards, the main title in gilt within a stamped circle of solid silver on the front board; boards a bit worn and defective at the spine ends. Perth, Brokensha & Shaw Ltd., n.d. but $185 Second edition of these very scarce reminiscences of a privileged upbringing in South Australian pastoral society. Sarah Conigrave was the daughter of South Australia pioneer, Charles Price of Hindmarsh Island. This copy is inscribed on the front pastedown To My daughter Mabel with Her mother s love. April 16th The copy is also signed by the author on the title-page verso, where also is pasted a printed photograph of the author (in 1938) with printed annotation below. We have seen this before on signed presentation copies but not on uninscribed copies. ANB, McCUAIG, Ronald. Vaudeville. Tall octavo (25.5 x 15.4 cms), pp. [56]; signed A-G in fours: first two leaves, A1 and A2 blank; A1 recto signed A in print; G2 and G4 blank, G3 recto colophon only, verso blank; paper watermarked Georgian ; uncut, about fine in original cloth, as issued without dustwrapper. Potts Point (Sydney), Privately Printed by The Author, $330 Rare: the first edition of McCuaig s first and most important collection, the first significant modernist work by an Australian poet. The volume was privately printed by the poet, at Wirringulla, St. Neot s Avenue, Potts Point, Sydney in his bath apparently in an edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. 48. ELDERSHAW, M. Barnard The Life and Times of Captain John Piper. Small quarto, pp. xvi, 204, [4] (blank), illustrated by Adrian Feint; a fine copy in original publisher s dark red calf, gilt, over bevelled boards by Albert Waite, fore- and bottom edges uncut, illustrated endpapers by Adrian Feint, with original glassine dustwrapper and slipcase with printed label (the slipcase mildly rubbed at extremities). Sydney, Printed by Benjamin Waite for Australian Limited Editions Society, $275 Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw. An uncommonly fine copy of what is still an truly outstanding example of fine Australian book production design, typography, binding putting to abject shame all pretentious contemporary attempts. It is also good history (and suggesting a similar comparison). 49. GARTNER, John. The Bookplates of Adrian Feint. Tall duodecimo by dimensions, pp. [8] (first and last leaf blank), with one page of reproductions of seven bookplates; very good in original cream leather-grain card wrappers. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, $385 Edition limited to 200 copies: presentation copy inscribed and signed to Frank Clune from John Gartner. The second publication of the Australian Bookplate Club. Ferson, 105.

25 50. BARNARD, Marjorie. Macquarie s World. Small quarto, coloured plates and illustrated endpapers by Frank Medworth; original publisher s red moroccobacked cloth over bevelled boards, near fine. Sydney, Australian Limited Editions Society, $185 Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by Marjorie Barnard and Frank Medworth. The remarkably high production standards for this book published at the height of the Second World war should be noted. 51. McCUAIG, Ronald. The Wanton Goldfish. Sextodecimo, pp. [12], with a full-page illustration by Victoria Cowdroy facing the title; very slight external use but about fine in original blue wrappers. Vaucluse, Sydney, The Author, $330 Rare: first edition. Although without stated limitation, only 170 copies of this first edition were printed on bond paper and sewn in wrappers. 52. O BRIEN, Daniel Augustine. Wastelands: an Australian Story of Love, Tragedy and Travel. Octavo, pp. [ii], 92, [2] (blank), a few photographic illustrations; a wartime economy production on cheap and now tanned paper in printed and illustrated card wrappers, the wrappers creased where folded at the side staples, a good or better copy of a piece far from durable. Brisbane, Printed by R.G. Gillies & Co. Pty Ltd [for D.A. O Brien], $330 Uncommon: pioneering in the Outback. The life story of Patrick Minogue, then in his seventies, retold from his oral account. Minogue s best known exploit was his famous record Australian ride to save three lives. He rode 208 miles across country over a flooded river twice in 17 ½ hours actual riding time. This exploit was the peg on which O Brien hangs his narrative, a thorough and detailed account of a bushman s life in Central Australia and the Queensland outback in the last decades of the nineteenth century. O Brien also retold the life story of Stephen Kelly, as well as several pamphlet accounts of his own expeditions to the Carnarvons.

26 53. [McAULEY, James and Harold STEWART] MALLEY, Ern. The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley. Small quarto, pp. 46, [2] + Sydney Nolan frontispiece; first leaf with a paper-clip crease (no rust staining), neat contemporary ownership inscription on the first leaf, a very good copy in original first issue blue-grey wrappers, sunned at extremities as often. Melbourne, Reed & Harris, $495 Extremely scarce: the first separate edition, first issue, (and the first publication of both authors) of this celebrated series of hoax poems. 54. [MENZIES] LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA. Forming the Liberal Party of Australia: Record of the Conference of Representatives of Non- Labour Organisations, convened by the Leader of the Opposition, Rt. Hon. R.G. Menzies, K.C., M.P., and held in Canberra, A.C.T., on 13th, 14th and 16th October, 1944 [wrapper title]. Octavo, pp. 20; fine in original selfwrappers. Colophon: Melbourne, McCarron, Bird and Co., Printers, n.d. circa $75 Scarce: the birth of the Liberal Party, unifying the various non-labour groups throughout Australia. The piece comprises the substantial and important opening address by Menzies, reports of various committees, especially on the naming of the new organisation and on its constitution, and a list of the delegates. Under Menzies, the Liberal party went on to govern Australia for the next three decades. 55. HANLON, Robert (editor). A Letter from a Convict in Australia to a Brother in England. Octavo, fine in original buckram with dustwrapper. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, $165 First separate edition, limited to 50 copies only, essentially for presentation. The long autobiographical letter from a convict in Western Australia was first published on pp of the Cornhill Magazine for April, Although published under the Hawthorn Press imprint, this was essentially a private publication for well-known collector Bob Hanlon. The issue in buckram and dustwrapper is uncommon, most copies seen obviously few in number, though were those

27 later issued as unbound sheets to be bound to order. This copy is a presentation one, inscribed by Hanlon to noted fellow-collector Rollo Hammet. Keain, HARROWER, Elizabeth. The Long Prospect. Octavo, pp. 208; very good in original boards with like price-clipped dustwrapper. London, Cassell & Company Ltd, $275 First edition: inscribed and signed presentation copy of Harrower s scarce second novel. 57. WINSER, Keith. Australian TV Year Book No.1: for 1958 [and] The Australian TV Year Book and tune-up manual Book No.2 for Two pieces, tall octavo, very numerous illustrations; light use, very good in original colour printed wrappers. Melbourne and Sydney, Keith Winser, $440 The inaugural issues of this very early TV annual, published by a serial publisher-authoreditor of such popular annuals and guides (cars, caravans, TV, etc). There were two versions of the first of these year books, a Victorian and a New South Wales edition. the 1958 year book here has the cover title The Sydney TV Book No. 1. Apart from local advertisements and local variations for programmes and personalities (including portrait galleries), the two do not differ in substance. The year books include much general technical information and extensive, well-illustrated buyers guide to sets. There is also a good deal on proposed future channels and other developments and a portrait gallery of personalities, local and imported. The second year book interestingly notes future potentialities: pay TV (coin in the slot) is on its way; colour is too problematic for years; the Gabor flat tube is being developed (it wasn t); satellites will used to relay broadcasts; home recorders and personal TV cameras are five years away! 58. GREER, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. Octavo, pp. 354, [2] (blank); edges with a little pale spotting and marking, bookstore stamp at bottom of front pastedown endpaper, a few signs of use but a very good copy with little spine-faded dustwrapper. London, Macgibbon & Kee, $165 Rare: the first edition of a fundamental work. Greer s radical exposure of the plight of women in Western society is surely one of the most influential books published in the second half of the twentieth century. Although well produced and printed in substantial enough numbers, the first edition of this groundbreaking and liberating book was rapidly read to tatters and is now very difficult to find, especially in good condition with dustwrapper.

28 59. KENEALLY, Thomas. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Octavo, pp. [vi] (last blank), 178; signs of light use, very good in original black boards with like Arthur Boyd dustwrapper. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, $330 First edition: very scarce. Signed and inscribed by the author. 60. CAMPBELL, David. Starting from Central Station: a sequence of poems Illustrated by William Huff- Johnston. Octavo, pp. 20 (last blank); fine in original plain wrappers with attached dustwrapper. Canberra, The Brindabella Press, $440 First edition: limited to 220 numbered and signed copies, of which only 100 were offered for sale. This was the second publication and first book and one of the scarcest pieces from Alec Bolton s Brindabella Press. Richards, MOORHOUSE, Frank. The Illegal Relatives. Octavo, pp. [94], with pornographic line-drawings throughout, printed on cheap newsprint paper; original self-wrappers, cheap paper little embrowned and a small, mild abrasion on a blank part of the front wrapper but an excellent, clean copy of a rare book. N.p., n.d. but Sydney, Tomato Press for the Author, $495 Rare: first edition of this surreptitiouslyprinted underground publication of explicitly pornographic fiction, published without the author s consent. A justifiably obscene gesture against Australia s puritanical censorship laws, some of the individual pieces in this narrative had appeared in the experimental literary magazine Tabloid Story, conducted by Moorhouse and Michael Wilding between 1972 and The obscene illustrations, in typical 1970s underground style, are, however, unique to this book. This piece by Moorhouse it is his second book, albeit unauthorised presents the greatest challenge to the collector. 62. JONES, Rae Desmond. the marigolds [drop title]. Large broadside folio (440 x 280 mm); three old horizontal folds, slight edge creasing, a very good copy. Sydney, Fragment Press, August $80 Very scarce: one of several broadside poems published by Jones s Fragment Press; edition limited to 210 copies. 63. JONES, Rae Desmond. the mad vibe [drop title]. Large broadside folio (440 x 280 mm), printed in red on a printed yellow ground on white card; trivial edge creasing, fine. [Sydney, Fragment Press, circa ]. $330 A RARE AND IMPORTANT BROADSIDE One of a number of broadside pieces published by Jones in the early 1970s, most of them anarchically uncommercial, being literally given away at bus stops in Central Sydney. This broadside, however, is presented in a more orthodox manner, although without imprint or edition statement. Jones s poems from this early period are marked by his use of colloquial narratives powerful, sexual, violent and a vision bleak and confronting. the mad vibe is probably the most characteristic of his early work and it was the poem that gave the title to his second collection, published in the same year. This is a central piece by a central figure in the New Poetry movement. Similar broadsides from the Fragment Press at this time were limited to 210 copies but there is no reason to extrapolate a similar edition size for this piece probably actionable in 1975 for obscenity, in any case. It is rare indeed. 64. JOLLEY, Elizabeth. Five Acre Virgin and other stories. Octavo, pp. xii, 92, illustrations by Sue Grey-Smith; a few minor marks and other signs of use but a very good copy in original stiff white card wrappers. Fremantle, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, $440 First edition of the extremely scarce first book by a significant contemporary writer. The stories here were written over a period of 16 years and display Jolley s characteristic combination of unsentimental realism and original, often bizarre, humour (Clancy).

29 Nos. 73, 74, 64, 59.