Women

Item 1

ADAMS,  Glenda Dancing on Coral Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1988. First edition pp292, 8vo, cloth. Edges foxed, else very good in d/w With `New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Special Award 1987' sticker on d/w. This also won the 1988 Miles Franklin award $25

Item 2

ADAMS,  Glenda Games Of The Strong Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1982. First edition pp150, 8vo, cloth. Very good in fine d/w Second novel by the winner of the 1988 Miles Franklin award $25

Item 3

ADAMS,  Glenda The Hottest Night Of The Century. Short stories Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1979. First edition pp126, sm. 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine d/w Glenda Adams' first published book $25

Item 4

ADAMS,  Glenda Longleg Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1990. First edition pp340, 8vo, cloth. Very good in fine d/w $25

Item 5

ALLEN,  Agnes The Story Of Clothes. With drawings by Agnes and Jack Allen London, Faber, 1975. Reprint pp260, text ills; 8vo, cloth. Top edge sl. spotted, else fine in fine dustwrapper (price-clipped). $22

Item 6

ANDERSON,  Bonnie S, and Judith P Zinsser A History of Their Own. Woman in Europe from prehistory to the present. Volume 1 New York, Harper & Row, 1988. First edition pp592, illus, 8vo, cloth (hardback). A sprinkle of spotting to upper edges, cloth sl. bowed, else fine in the dustwrapper $25

Item 7

ANDERSON,  Ethel Little Ghosts Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1959. First edition pp196, 8vo, cloth. Very good in the attractive dust jacket Collection of Indian stories from the Australian author who lived in India for 10 years $25

Item 8

ANDERSON,  Ethel Squatter's Luck and other Poems Melbourne University Press, 1952, first edition pp48, frontis; 8vo, cloth. Very good in dust wrapper Anderson's first book of verse $25

Item 9

ANDERSON,  Ethel Sunday At Yarralumla. A Symphony Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1947, 1st edition pp62, frontis., title-page illus; 8vo, papered boards, cloth spine. Some spotting, else very good in dust jacket Poems inspired by the country around Canberra, and the old homestead that is now Government House $25

Item 10

ARNOLD,  Bruce Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland New Haven, 1991 pp216, many col. & b/w ills; 4to, cloth . Fine in d/w A lavishly illustrated biography of Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) a central figure of the modern art movement in Ireland $45

Item 11

ASHDOWN,  Dulcie M Ladies in Waiting New York, 1976 pp212, photoplates, 8vo, cloth (hardback). Spotting to upper edges, else fine in the dustwrapper Some of whom, like Sarah Churchill, became more powerful than the Queens they served $20

Item 12

ASQUITH,  Lady Cynthia Diaries 1915-1918. With a foreword by L. P. Hartley London, Hutchinson, 1968, 2nd impression ppxix, 530, b/w plates & illus; roy. 8vo, cloth. Owner name, edges faintly spotted, else a good copy in dustwrapper $35

Item 13

ASTLEY,  Thea A Kindness Cup Melbourne, Nelson, 1974, first edition pp154, 8vo, cloth. Edges spotted, front endpaper sl. marked with offsetting and a neat number, else very good in fine dust jacket (with the wrap around band) $22

Item 14

ASTLEY,  Thea Vanishing Points Melbourne, Heinemann, 1992, first edition pp234, 8vo, cloth. Edges tanned, small remainder dot, else very good in fine dust wrapper $20

Item 15

[ATKINSON, L.] CLARKE,  Patricia Pioneer Writer. The life of Louisa Atkinson: novelist, journalist, naturalist. By Patricia Clarke Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1990. First edition pp260, b/w illus; 8vo, hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket Biography of Australia's first native-born woman novelist $25

Item 16

ATWELL,  Winifred Vintage black & white publicity photograph, signed in ink `Sincerely Winifred Atwell' 200x250cms The acclaimed Trinidadian-born pianist (1910-1983) first toured Australia in 1955. She made Australia her home in 1970, and took citizenship shortly before she died $85

Item 17

ATWOOD,  Margaret Alias Grace London, Bloomsbury, 1996, 1st UK edition pp470, 8vo, cloth. Edges faintly spotted, else fine in like d/w $25

Item 18

[AUSTEN,  Jane] Emma Watson. The Watsons Completed. By Joan Aiken London, Gollancz, 1996, 2nd impression pp222 . 8vo, cloth. Fine in like dust jacket The fourth of Joan Aiken's `Jane Austen entertainments'. This one completes the seventeen thousand word fragment Austen left unfinished at her death $30

Item 19

AUSTEN  Jane Love And Friendship and other early works. Now first printed from the original ms. by Jane Austen. With a preface by G. K. Chesterton London, Chatto & Windus, 1923 (2nd impression) pp140, endpapers decorated with Cassandra Austen's coloured ills. 8vo, decorated cloth. Very good Keynes No. 173 $220

Item 20

AUSTEN,  Jane Northanger Abbey. Intro. by Richard Church. Wood engravings by Joan Hassell London, Folio Society, 1960 pp224, 8vo, cloth. Spine sunned, a little foxing, neat owner name. Else very good in the box $30

Item 21

AUSTEN,  Jane Sense & Sensibility. Introduction by Richard Church London, Folio Society, 1958/60 pp286, wood-engravings by Joan Hassall; 8vo, cloth backed papered boards. Spine sunned, else very good Folio Society 122 $25

Item 22

AUSTEN,  Jane Shorter Works. Introductions by Richard Church London, Folio Society, 1975/1978 wood-engravings by Joan Hassall; 8vos, cloth backed papered boards. A very good in slipcase Includes the complete novels `Lady Susan' and `Love and Friendship', the minor novels, the fragments, `The Watsons', `Sanditon', `Catharine', and `The History of England' $25

Item 23

AUSTEN,  Jane Volume the Third. Now first printed from the manuscript. Preface by R. W. Chapman Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1951, 1st edition ppviii, 134, 8vo, cloth backed boards. Spotting to spine and prelims, else very good The third printed volume of the Juvenilia contains the stories `Evelyn', and `Kitty, or The Bower' $75

Item 24

[AUSTEN, J] FULLERTON,  Susannah Jane Austen & Crime Sydney, Jane Austen Society of Australia, 2004. First edition pp248, b/w ills; 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Fine Profusely illustrated from contemporary sources. Signed `Susannah Fullerton' $25

Item 25

[AUSTEN, J] LASCELLES,  Mary Jane Austen and her Art Oxford University Press, 1939. First edition pp226.; 8vo, cloth. Very good $35

Item 26

[AUSTEN, J] VILLARD,  Leonie Jane Austen A French Appreciation.Translated by Veronica Lucas. With `A New Study of Jane Austen' (interpreted through Love and Friendship' by R. Brimley Johnson London, George Routledge, 1924. First edition pp248. 8vo, cloth, edges foxed Else very good copy in dust jacket $65

Item 27

[AUSTEN, J] WILSON,  Barbara Ker Jane Austen In Australia. A novel London, Secker & Warburg, 1984. First edition pp330, 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper An imaginative novel which has Jane Austen accompanying her aunt (convicted of theft and transported) to the Colony of New South Wales) $25

Item 28

BACALL,  Lauren Lauren Bacall By Myself London, Cape, 1979. First edition pp378, b/w photoplates; 8vo, hard cover. Fine in fine (price clipped) dust jacket Inscribed by Lauren Bacall to the Australian theatre director Allan Davis $65

Item 29

BAER,  Ann Medieval Woman. Village Life in the Middle Ages London, Michael O'Mara, 1996. First edition pp236, 8vo, cloth (hardback). A sprinkle of spotting to upper edges, else fine in the dustwrapper $28

Item 30

BARINE,  Arvede La Grande Mademoiselle 1627-1652. Translated into English by Helen E. Meyer New York, Putnam's, 1903 ppx 448, 28 full page plates; 8vo, half calf with marbled boards. Very good The story of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, the granddaughter of Henry IV of France, in a handsome binding. Courted by most of the crowned heads of Europe (her mother's fortune made her one of the richest women in the world), but she died unmarried and childless $85

Item 31

BARNES,  Djuna Selected Works Of Djuna Barnes. Spillway/ The Antiphon/ Nightwood London,Faber,1962, first edition thus pp366, 8vo, cloth, d/w.Very good $20

Item 32

[BARTON.C.] MUIR,  Marcie Charlotte Barton: Australia's first children's author Sydney, 1980, signed copy pp36, facsimile title page; 8vo, wrappers, sl. spotted, else fine Only 500 copies were printed. This one numbered & signed `Marcie Muir'. A fine copy, unsigned & not numbered, is available for $25 $45

Item 33

BASKERVILLE,  Margaret Margaret Baskerville Sculptor Melbourne, August 1929 38 tipped in plates; sm 4to, gold stamped vellum. neat inscription, else fine Limited to 250 copies, of which this is signed, and numbered 24 $295

Item 34

BASSETT,  Marnie The Governor's Lady. Mrs Philip Gidley King London, Oxford University Press, 1956, second edition pp132, b/w plates; 8vo, hard cover, owner name. A very good copy in dust jacket $25

Item 35

BEDFORD,  Ruth Who's Who In Rhyme And Without Reason Sydney, Australasian Publishing Company, 1948, first edition pp34, line illustrations by Judith Mauldon; 8vo, original illus. boards. Boards a little stained, else very good in dust jacket Humorous verse. Signed by Ruth Bedford $45

Item 36

BEETON,  Mrs The Shorter Mrs. Beeton London, 1987 pp240, col. plates; 4to, glazed boards. Fine in fine d/w $25

Item 37

BEHN,  Aphra The Royal Slave and other Novels of Mrs Aphra Behn. With an introduction by Ernest A. Baker London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1913 ppxxvii, 380, 8vo, cloth, top edge gilt. A very good copy $45

Item 38

BEHN,  Aphra, attributed to The Ten Pleasures Of Marriage and the second part, The Confession Of The New Married Couple. Reprinted with an intro. by John Harvey London, 1922 pp280, b/w illus; roy. 8vo, cloth stamped & lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Cloth darkened, else very good Privately printed for the Navarre Society $55

Item 39

[BELL, V] SPALDING,  Frances Vanessa Bell London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983. First edition ppxvi, 400, colour & b/w photoplates; roy. 8vo, hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket $45

Item 40

[BLACK. D] NORTH,  Ian The Art Of Dorrit Black. By Ian North Melbourne, Macmillan, 1979. First edition pp152, profusely illus. in col. & b/w; 4to, cloth. Owner name, faint tape marks to endpapers, else very good in fine d/w The definitive book on Black, the important Australian artist painting between the wars, who is credited with introducing modernism into Australian art. 26 works in colour and 57 in black and white are reproduced. Lists all Black's known works, exhibitions, and gives a comprehensive bibliography. Offered with a catalogue of 29 works from the Josef Lebovic Gallery $65

Item 41

BLANCH,  Lesley Journey into the Mind's Eye. Fragments of an Autobiography New York, Atheneum, 1969, first US edition pp376, frontis; 8vo, cloth. Edges faintly spotted, else very good in d/w (a little rubbed) Blanch's travels from Uzbekistan to Guatemala by way of North Africa and Siberia. With Australian theatre director Alan Davis' signature $30

Item 42

BLANCH,  Lesley Pavilions Of The Heart. The four walls of love London, Weidenfeld, 1974 pp192, profusely illus. in col. & b/w; 8vo, cloth (hardback). Very good in dust jacket The houses, rooms & castles of famous love affairs $25

Item 43

[BLOOMSBURY] CHISHOLM,  Anne Frances Partridge. The Biography London, W&N, 2009. First edition pp402, b/w photographs; 8vo, cloth (hardcover] Neat name on fly, else fine in fine dust jacket One of the great diarists of the 20th century, Partridge is best known for her association with the Bloomsbury group $35

Item 44

BLOOMSBURY. GADD,  David Loving Friends. A portrait of Bloomsbury London, Hogarth Press, 1974, first edition pp210, photoplates; 8vo, hard cover. a fine copy in like (price-clipped) dust jacket $25

Item 45

BLOOMSBURY. SHONE,  Richard The Art of Bloomsbury. Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant London, Tate Gallery, 1999, first edition pp272, colour & b/w plates; 4to, cloth. Fine in fine Vanessa Bell dust jacket $85

Item 46

BRONTE,  Emily Wuthering Heights London, Zodiac Press, 1947 ppx, 308, decorations; 8vo, dec. cloth. Edges sl. spotted, else very good in d/w $22

Item 47

[BRONTE] YABLON,  G.A. & John R. Turner A Bronte Bibliography London, Ian Hodgkins, 1978 pp152, cloth. Fine 656 titles listed $25

Item 48

BROOKE,  Christopher The Medieval Idea of Marriage Oxford, 1990. Reprint pp326, photoplates. 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine (price-cliped) dustwrapper $25

Item 49

(BROWNING,  Elizabeth Barrett) Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster London, Chatto, 1988. First edition pp400, b/w plates; roy. 8vo, cloth. top edges dusty, else fine in d/w $30

Item 50

BRUCE,  Mary Grant From Billabong To London London, Ward Lock, n.d. pp256, b/w frontis; 8vo, cloth. Edges foxed, else a near fine copy in the dust jacket $25

Item 51

BRYDLOVA,  Bozena Io Unveiled. (The Brydlovan Theory of the Origin of Numbers) New York, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., 1922. First edition pp90, b/w illustrations. 4to, cloth-backed boards. A fine copy in the chipped plain dust jacket Bozena Brydlova was a numerologist and a member of the American Theosophical Society $45

Item 52

BURKE,  Janine Australian Women Artists 1840-1940 Melbourne, Greenhouse, 1980, 1st edition thus pp188, profusely illus. in col. & b/w; 4to, hardback. Owner inscription, else very good in dust jacket Expanded from Burke's catalogue of 1975, this is the first general monograph on Australian women artists $45

Item 53

BURKE,  Janine The Heart Garden. Sunday Reed and Heide Sydney, Knopf, 2004. 1st edition pp450, photoplates, 8vo, hardback. Fine in dust jacket $35

Item 54

[BURNEY,  Fanny] Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (1778-1840) as edited by her niece Charlotte Barrett. With preface and notes by Austin Dobson. In six volumes London, Macmillan, 1904-5. First editions gravure plates, facsimiles; roy. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Cloth darkened, a little foxing, mainly to edges. A very good set of this handsome edition An intimate of the court of King George III and Queen Charlottte, Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay) knew everyone who was anyone in the worlds of society, art, music and literature $125

Item 55

[BURNEY, F] DOODY,  Margaret Anne Frances Burney The Life in the Works Rutgers University Press, 1988, first edition pp442, b/w ills; roy. 8vo, cloth. Edges faintly spotted, else fine in dust jacket $35

Item 56

[BURNEY, F] MOORE,  F. Frankfort The Keeper of the Robes London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910] x, 468, 7 tipped-in plates; roy. 8vo, cloth gilt with paper illus. front board. Foxing, edges darkened, else a good copy Daughter of Charles Burney, sister of James (who sailed with Captain Cook on his last two voyages), and connected with everyone in London's musical and literary society, Fanny Burney reluctantly accepted this position at the court of George III and Queen Charlotte $35

Item 57

[BURTON, R. & I] LOVELL,  Mary A Rage to Live. A Biography of Richard and Isobel Burton London, Little Brown, 1998. First edition pp910, photoplates, endpaper maps; roy. 8vo [155X240mm], cloth. Fine in dustwrapper $30

Item 58

BURY,  Lady Charlotte The Diary Of A Lady-in-Waiting. Being the diary illustrative of the times of George IV interspersed with original letters from the late Queen Caroline and other distinguished persons. Introduction by A. Francis Steuart. 2 volumes London, Bodley Head, 1908 ppxvi, 416, (4); 486, (24),, 18 plates; roy. 8vo, cloth, gilt, a.e.g. Some foxing, good copies Lady Charlotte (1775-1861) daughter of a duke, and widow of another, was appointed lady-in-waiting to Queen Caroline in 1809. She published a scandalous account of life at the court anonymously, as well as several `silver fork' novels $110

Item 59

BYATT,  A.S Babel Tower London, Chatto, 1996, first edition pp618, 8vo, cloth. Edges tanned, small scrape on lower board, else very good in fine dust jacket $35

Item 60

BYATT,  A.S Possession A Romance London, Cape, 1990, first edition pp512, 8vo, cloth. Paper tanned, else very good in fine dust jacket The Booker Prize winner $35

Item 61

CADOGAN,  Mary The William Companion London, Macmillan,1990, first edition pp240, b/w ills, 8vo, cloth, very good in d/w An insight into Richmal Crompton's William books $30

Item 62

CADOGAN,  Mary and Patricia Craig You're a Brick, Angela! A New look at Girls' Fiction from 1839-1975 London, Gollancz, 1976. First edition pp398, illus., 8vo, cloth. Edges faintly spotted, else very good in like d/w $35

Item 63

[CAMBRIDGE, A] TATE,  Audrey Ada Cambridge Her Life and Work 1844-1926 by Audrey Tate Melbourne University Press, 1991, First edition pp320, b/w photos, 8vo, hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket A critical biography of this important Australian writer $25

Item 64

CAMERON,  Julia Margaret The Cameron Collection. An Album of Photographs... presented to Sir John Herschel. Introduction by Colin Ford London, National Portrait Gallery, 1975, first edition pp144, photoplates; folio, cloth. Very good in the dust wrapper The original album by the Victorian photographer, purchased by public subscription for fifty two thousand pounds, is published here for the first time $85

Item 65

CAMPBELL,  Marion Lines of Flight. A novel Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1985, first edition pp292, 8vo, softcover, with dust wrapper. Fine Marion Campbell's first novel $30

Item 66

[CANNING,  Charlotte] Charlotte Canning. Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and wife of the first Viceroy of India 1817-1861. By Virginia Surtees London, John Murray, 1975. First edition pp320, b/w plates; 8vo, cloth. End-papers sl. browned else very good in dust jacket $25

Item 67

CARTLAND,  Barbara The Outrageous Queen. A biography of Queen Christina of Sweden London, Shakespeare Head Press, 1956. First edition pp256, portrait frontis., 8vo, cloth. A little foxing, neat owner name, else very good in dust jacket The bizarre life of the Queen of Sweden [1626-1689), whose sexuality and gender was constantly a source of gossip and innuendo. She was certainly an intellectual. a soldier, a scholar and a passionate art collector $25

Item 68

CARTWRIGHT,  Julia Isabella D'Este Marchioness of Mantua 1474-1539. 2 volumes London, John Murray, 1915 pp392, 420, tissue guarded plates, genealogical table. 8vos, original cloth gilt. Sl. spotting to edges, very good $65

Item 69

CASTOR,  Helen She-Wolves. The Women Who ruled England Before Elizabeth London,Faber, 2000. First edition ppxvi, 474, colour plates. Roy. 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket $30

Item 70

CHASE,  Edna Woolman, with Ilka Chase Always In Vogue New York, Doubleday, 1954, first edition pp382, b/w photos; 8vo, cloth. Very good without d/w Memoir by Vogue's famous editor. This copy inscribed `To Sir Charles and Lady Lloyd Jones with warm good wishes from Edna Woolman Chase'. Author's Christmas card is included $35

Item 71

CHRISTIE,   Agatha An Autobiography London, Harper. 2010. First edition pp542, photoplates; 8vo, cloth. Remainer mark on lower edges, else fine in fine d/w Includes the CD of Christie's voice recordings $25

Item 72

CHRISTIE,  Agatha Murder In Mesopotamia London, Collins Crime Club, 1958 pp288, 8vo, red cloth. Edges & prelims spotted, neat owner name. A good plus copy in the attractive Robin Macartney dust jacket (price clipped, but very good) The first edition was published by the Crime Club in 1938. This edition is also scarce $95

Item 73

[CHRISTIE, A.] OSBORNE,  Charles The Life And Crimes Of Agatha Christie London, 1982. First edition pp256, photoplates; 8vo, cloth. Very good in fine d/w Signed and inscribed by Osborne to Allan Davis (Australian born born West End theatre director). A typed verse by Davis `The Life and Crimes of Charles Osborne' is loosely inserted $45

Item 74

CHURCHILL,  Lady Randolph Spencer The Anglo-Saxon Review. A quarterly miscellany. Vol.1 June 1899 - Vol. IV March 1900 London, John Murray, 1899 - 1900, first editions 4tos, ornate full morocco stamped in gilt. Spines tender, scattered foxing, else very good A literary and artistic review, edited by Winston Churchill's mother. It ran for 6 more issues. Many women contributed, including Elizabeth Robins, E.V.B., the Duchess of Devonshire, and Isabella Bishop (on Chinese medicine). Other contributors to these issues include Henry James, Swinburne, Alma Tadema, and George Gissing $895

Item 75

[CHURCHILL, S] GREEN,  David Sarah Duchess of Marlborough London, 1967, reprint pp352, b/w. plates; 8vo, cloth. Very good in dust jacket $25

Item 76

[CHURCHILL, S] HIBBERT,  Christopher The Marlboroughs. John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744 London, Viking, 2000, first edition pp408, photoplates; 8vo, cloth, fine in fine dust jacket $25

Item 77

[COMPTON-BURNETT,  Ivy] The Life Of Ivy Compton-Burnett. By Elizabeth Sprigge London, Gollancz, 1973, first edition pp192, b/w photographs; 8vo, cloth. Very good with d/w $25

Item 78

COMPTON-BURNETT,  Ivy Pastors and Masters London, Heath Cranton, 1925. First edition pp126, 8vo, cloth. Tiny hole in cloth spine, else very good in slightly soiled dust wrapper with one closed tear Compton-Burnett's second book $65

Item 79

(COMPTON-BURNETT,  Ivy] Secret of a Woman's Heart. The Later Life Of I. Compton-Burnett. By Hilary Spurling London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985, first edition pp336, b/w photographs; 8vo, cloth, top edges dusty. very good in dust jacket $25

Item 80

CONWAY,  Jill Ker The Road From Coorain. An Australian Memoir. [Together with] True North. A Memoir Melbourne, Heinemann, 1989, & London, Hutchinson, 1994. First editions pp8vos, cloth. Spotting to edges, else very good in dust jackets The moving story of Ker Conway's struggle from family tragedy and hardship in the Australian bush, to independence and a respected place in academia in the US, was made into a TV film $60

Item 81

COOPER,  Gladys Gladys Cooper Autograph. A large, flamboyant signature across a printed portrait (removed from a book) $25

Item 82

CORELLI,  Marie Jane. A Social Incident. Illustrated by G. H. Edwards London, Hutchinson, 1897 pp148, 4, 8 plates; sm. 8vo [95x175mm], original buckram (a little soiled, corners sl. bumped]. Top edges gilt. A little spotting, but a good copy $35

Item 83

COSS,  Peter The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1500 London, Alan Sutton, 1998. First edition pp214, colour & b/w ills. 8vo, cloth. Sl. spotting, else fine in fine dust jacket Companion volume to `The Knight in Medieval England 1000 - 1400' $25

Item 84

[COSSINGTON SMITH,  G] Grace Cossington Smith by Deborah Hart Sydney, AGNSW, 2005, first edition pp188, colour & plates; 4to, wrappers. Owner name, else fine A catalogue of a touring retrospective organised by the Art Gallery NSW $35

Item 85

CRANE,  Walter Beatrice Crane Her Book (The 2nd) June 1st 1879. A manuscript by Walter Crane. Toronto, 1983, first thus pp10, then coloured illustrations; 8vo, cloth. Fine Facsimile of the 1879 original, wih an essay on Beatrice Crane by Margaret Crawford Maloney $25

Item 86

CUMES,  J.W.C Their Chastity was not too Rigid. Leisure times in early Australia Sydney, Longman, 1979 ppxvi, 378, b/w illus; lge. 8vo, hard cover. A little spotting to edges, else fine in dust jacket Explores the place of women in predominantly male Colonial society $30

Item 87

[CUNARD, N] CHISHOLM,  Anne Nancy Cunard London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. First edition ppxiii, 366, b/w photographs; 8vo, hard cover spine, papered boards. Very good in fine dust jacket A biography of the founder of The Hours Press, renowned for publishing the avante-garde writers of the 20s & 30s, including Beckett, Pound, Robert Graves and Norman Douglas. Contains a bibliography of the publications of the Press $30

Item 88

CUNNINGTON,   C. Whillett & Phillis Cunnington Handbook of English Medieval Costume London, Faber, 1973, second edition with corrections pp210, illustrated. 8vo, cloth. Top edges dusty, else fine in fine (price-clipped) dustwrapper $25

Item 89

[CURZON, I,C,A] DE COURCY  Anne The Viceroy's Daughters. The Lives of the Curzon Sisters London, W&N, 2000, first edition ppx, 422, photoplates; 8vo, cloth. Paper tanned at edges, else very good in dustwrapper (with repaired tear) Biography of the daughters of Lord Curzon $25

Item 90

[CURZON,M] NICOLSON,  Nigel Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson New York, Harper & Row, 1977, first edition ppxii, 228, photoplates; 8vo, cloth, d/w. Small mark on free fly, where sticker has been removed, else very good The American heiress who became the Vicereine of India $20

Item 91

D'ALPUGET,  Blanche Monkeys In The Dark Sydney, Aurora Press, 1980, 1st edition pp176, 8vo, hard cover. Top edges sl. spotted, spine very slightly leaning, else fine in fine (by Donald Friend) dust jacket Author's first novel, inscribed 'To dearest Rube, love from your granddaughter, Blanche, May 1980' . Inserted is a typescript invitation to the book launch $45

Item 92

D'ALPUGET  Blanche On Longing Melbourne University Press, 2008. First edition pp84. 8vo, boards. No d/w as issued In MUP's `Little Books on Big Themes' series $20

Item 93

D'ALPUGET,  Blanche Turtle Beach New York, Simon & Schuster, n.d. [1983], first US edition pp288. 8vo, cloth-backed boards (hard cover). Very good in like dust jacket Inscribed to her father and step-mother, and signed `For Da and Tess, with much love, Blanche. January '84' $35

Item 94

D'ALPUGET,  Blanche Winter In Jerusalem New York, Simon & Schuster, 1986, first US edition pp372. 8vo, cloth. Spine sl. leaning, else very good in fine dust jacket Signed by D'Alpuget to her father and step-mother `For Da and Tess, with much love, Blanche. July '86' $35

Item 95

DALTON  Robin An Incidental Memoir Melbourne, Viking, 1998, first edition pp368, b/w photographs; 8vo, cloth, very good in dust jacket The sequel to Dalton's family memoir `Aunts Up the Cross' $25

Item 96

DAVIDSON,  Jim Lyrebird Rising. Louise Hanson-Dyer of l'Oiseau-Lyre 1884-1962 Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 1994, first edition pp578, b/w photographs; lge. 8vo, cloth (hardback). Fine in fine dust wrapper A biography of the Australian born, Parisian based founder of l'Oiseau-Lyre (Lyrebird Press) who at one time assisted the poet Shaw Neilson. No 14 in the Miegunyah Press Series $35

Item 97

DAVIDSON,  Robyn Ancestors London, Cape, 1989. First edition pp314, 8vo, cloth. Top edges spotted, else very good in dust jacket First novel by the author of Tracks $25

Item 98

[DE BEAUVOIR,  S] Simone de Beauvoir by Claude Francis & Fernande Gontier. Trans. by Lisa Nesselson London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987, first English edition pp412, photoplates. 8vo, hard cover. Fine in fine (price-clipped) dust jacket $25

Item 99

[DE BEAUVOIR,  S] Tete-a-tete. The life and loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Satre by Hazel Rowley London, Chatto, 2007, first edition ppxviii, 430, photoplates. 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket Signed by Rowley $35

Item 100

DE BEAUVOIR,  Simone The Mandarins A Novel. Translated by Leonard M Friedman London, Collins, 1957. 2nd edition pp704, 8vo, hard cover. Sl. foxing to edges & prelims, inscription on fly. Very good in sl. chipped dust jacket $25

Item 101

DE SEGUR,  Mme la Comtesse Memoirs d'un Ane Paris, Hachette,1906, new edition pp314, with 75 vignettes by H. Castelli; 8vo, original grained cloth decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. A little soiling to cloth, spine sl. canted. Very good Madame la Comptesse de Segur (1799-1874) was a French writer of Russian birth. This copy in the attractive Bibliotheque Rose Illustree Series $35

Item 102

[DICKENSON, E] GORDON,  Lyndall Lives Like Loaded Guns. Emily Dickenson and her Family's Feuds New York, Viking, 2010, 1st edition ppxx,490, photoplates, 8vo, hardback. Neat owner name, else fine in fine dust jacket $30

Item 103

DINESEN,  Isak Shadows On The Grass New York, Random House, 1961. First US edition pp152, 8vo, cloth. Very good in slightly soiled sust jacket $22

Item 104

DOBSON,  Rosemary Selected Poems Sydney, A&R, 1973, first edition ppxiv, 134, 8vo, cloth. Very good in d/w $35

Item 105

DOBSON,  Rosemary A World Of Difference. Australian Poetry and Painting in the 1940s Sydney, 1973 pp24, 8vo, card wrappers, sunned & faded. The third Herbert Blaiklock memorial lecture $20

Item 106

[DOBSON, R] HOOTON,  Joy, & others Rosemary Dobson. A Celebration Canberra, National Library, 2000, first edition pp74, 8vo, wrappers. Fine Invitation to the launch inserted $18

Item 107

DOHERTY,  Paul Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II London, Constable, 2003. First edition pp262, 8vo, cloth. Fne in fine dust jacket $25

Item 108

DOWD,  Maureen Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide New York, Putnams, 2005. First edition pp336; 8vo, cloth, d/w. Fine $25

Item 109

DRABBLE,  Margaret The Ice Age London, 1977, first edition pp300, 8vo, cloth. Edges sl. spotted, paper browned, else very good in clipped dust jacket with minimal rubbing Signed `Margaret Drabble' $45

Item 110

DRABBLE,  Margaret The Middle Ground London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, first edition pp248, 8vo, cloth. Top edge spotted, paper tanned, else very good in fine dust wrapper Signed `Margaret Drabble' $45

Item 111

DRABBLE,  Margaret The Millstone New York, Morrow, 1966, first US edition pp192; 8vo, cloth backed board. Very good in dustjacket Margaret Drabble's third novel $45

Item 112

DRABBLE,  Margaret A Writer's Britain. Landscape in Literature. Photographs by Jorge Lewinski London, T&H, 1979, 1st edition pp292, 121 ills., 31 in colour; 4to, cloth. Very good in sl. sunned dust jacket The perfect marriage of text and illustrations - am armchair literary tour $25

Item 113

DU MAURIER,  Daphne Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster London, Chatto & Windus, 1993. First edition pp456, b/w photos, 8vo, cloth, edges browned. Large owner inscription else very good in d/w $20

Item 114

DURACK,  Elizabeth Seeing through Indonesia Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1877, First edition pp120, illustrated by the author. 8vo, cloth. Very good in dustwrapper The Australian artist's impressions of the Republic $30

Item 115

EDGEWORTH,  Maria Frank London, Routledge, n.d. (inscript. 1869). New edition pp190, (2), coloured frontis. & title-page. Sm. 8vo, pictorial cloth gilt, sl. rubbed. Prelims spotted else very good $30

Item 116

EDGEWORTH,  Maria Harry and Lucy: to which are added The Little Dog Trusty, The Cherry Orchard, and the Orange Man London, Routledge, n.d. (c. 1870). New edition pp192, (16), coloured frontis. & title-page. Sm. 8vo, pictorial cloth gilt, spine sl. torn at lower edge. Prelims spotted else very good $30

Item 117

EDWARDS,  Deborah, & Denise Mimmocchi Sydney Moderns. Forward by Daniel Thomas Sydney, AGNSW, 2013, first edition pp324, colour & plates; 4to, wrappers. Fine Profusely illustrated catalogue of the exhibition by the Art Gallery NSW. Includes work by Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston, and Hera Roberts $35

Item 118

(ELDERSHAW,  F.ed) The Peaceful Army. A memorial to the pioneer women of Australia, 1788-1938 Sydney, 1938 pp138, 10 fullpage photoplates; 4to, wrappers. Light spotting to prelims, else very good Articles include Elizabeth MacArthur by M. Barnard Eldershaw; Rose Scott by Miles Franklin; some pioneer women artists by Margaret Preston $25

Item 119

[ELIOT,  George] A Biography. By Gordon S. Haight London, 1978 pp492; 540, roy. 8vo, cloth. top edge dusty, else very good in d/w $25

Item 120

[ELIOT, G] HALDANE,  Elizabeth S George Eliot and her Times London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928, first edition pp316, b/w plates; 8vo, cloth, foxing to edges & prelims, else very good $20

Item 121

[ELIZABETH I] GLOVER,  Alan, compiler Gloriana's Glass London, The Nonesuch Press, [1953] pp152, wood-engraving by Joan Hassall; 8vo, illus. cloth, very slightly marked. With the Ingleton bookplate on front pastedown. Very good Queen Elizabeth I reflected in verses & dedications addressed to her, reports concerning her, and her own words written and spoken. 1250 copies were published by the Nonesuch Press, to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 $25

Item 122

[ELIZABETH I] Perry.  Maria Elizabeth. The Word of a Prince. A Life from Contemporary Documents London, 1990 pp352, col. & b/w ills; 8vo, cloth. Fine in slip case Folio Society $25

Item 123

[ELIZABETH I] WATKINS,  Susan Elizabeth I and her world London, Thames & Hudson, 1998, first edition pp208,numerous col. & b/w ills;4to, cloth. Fine in fine d/w $40

Item 124

EPHRON,  Nora The Most of Nora Ephron New York, Knopf, 2013. First edition pp562, 8vo, [165x240mm], original cloth. A fine copy with fine dustjacket A collection of Ephron's best writing - essays, journalism, plays, including the screenplay of `When Harry Met Sally', and her best seller, `Heartburn' $25

Item 125

EPTON,  Nina Love And The English New York, World Publishing, 1960. First edition pp390, 8vo, hard cover. Very good in like dust jacket Epton's defense of the English as lovers $25

Item 126

EPTON,  Nina Love And The Spanish London, Cassell, 1961. First edition pp216, 8vo, hard cover. Edges spotted, else very good in like (price-clipped) dust jacket Spain - `a country of Magdalenes and repentant Don Juans as well as gay sinners' $25

Item 127

FAINGES,  Marjory Australian Dollmakers A History. Versatile & Inventive Kenthurst, Kangaroo Press, 1986 pp144, col. & b/w photo-illustrations; sm. 4to, cloth. Lower edge shelf rubbed, else very good in d/w The history of the Australian doll $25

Item 128

FELL,  Christine, Clark, Cecily, and Elizabeth Williams Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the impact of 1066 London, Colonnade, 1984. First edition pp208, b/w ills., 8vo, cloth. Sl. spotting to top edges, else fine in fine dust jacket (price-clipped) $30

Item 129

FISCHEL,   Dr Oskar, & Max Von Boehn Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century as represented in the pictures and engravings of the time. Translated from the German by M. Edwardes with an introduction by Grace Rhys. 4 vols London, J. M. Dent, 1927 (revised and enlarged edition) profusely illus. in colour and b/w from reproductions of contemporary prints, photographs and paintings; sm. 4tos, decorated cloth gilt, gilt lettering. Edges a little spotted, else very good A very detailed and scholarly account of the fashion and modes of living in the years 1819 to 1914. A very pretty set $295

Item 130

FITZGERALD,  Penelope A House of Air Selected Writings. Introduction by Hermione Lee London, Flamingo, 2003, first edition ppxxii, 552, 8vo, cloth. Edges a little tanned, else very good in dust jacket $25

Item 131

FLOWER  Pat Wax Flowers for Gloria Sydney, Ure Smith, 1958. First edition pp224, 8vo [130x190mm], cloth. A good copy in worn & chipped Cedric Flower dustwrapper (now protected) Flower's first novel $30

Item 132

FLOWER  Pat A Wreath Of Water-Lilies Sydney, Ure Smith, 1960. First edition pp192, 8vo [130x190mm], cloth. Very good in the attractive dustwrapper (sl. worn & chipped] Pat Flower's third crime novel $22

Item 133

FORSYTH,  Holly Kerr Remembered Gardens. Eight Women and their Visions of an Australian Landscape Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2006, first edition pp274,colour & b/w ills, 4to, cloth. (hardback). Fine in fine dust jacket Discusses the colonial gardens created by such pioneer women as Elizabeth Macarthur, Gorgiana Molloy, and Louisa Anne Meredith $30

Item 134

FRAME,  Janet The Complete Autobiography London, The Women's Press, 1999 pp436, photoplates, 8vo, softcover. Fine Reprints the previous volumes of autobiography in one volume $25

Item 135

FRANK,  Anne The Diary Of A Young Girl. Translated from the Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. With an Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt New York, Modern Library, 1952 pp286 (2). Sm. 8vo, cloth (faintly flecked). Else very good in price clipped dustwrapper. With the sticker of Sydney bookseller Dymock's on front endpaper (hence the price-clipping) No. 298 in the Modern Library Series. First published in Dutch in 1947, this edition was published the same year as the first American edition, the first to be published in English $75

Item 136

FRANKLIN,  Miles My Brilliant Career. Intro. by Joan Aiken. Drawings by Dodie Masterman London, Folio Society, 1983, first edition thus pp256, line ills; 8vo, dec. cloth. Owner name, else fine Folio Society 520 $22

Item 137

FRANKLIN,  Miles My Brilliant Career. Preface by Henry Lawson Sydney, A&R, 1965, new edition pp232, 8vo, hard cover. Very good in sl. tanned (price-clipped) dust jacket $30

Item 138

FRASER,  Antonia The Weaker Vessel. Women's Lot in 17th century England London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, 1st UK edition pp544, b/w plates; roy.8vo, cloth, d/w.Edges sl. dusty, else very good $25

Item 139

FRASER,  F. & Nettie Palmer, eds Centenary Gift Book. Victoria - Australia 1834-1934. Published for the Women's Centenary Council Melbourne, 1934 pp166, col. frontis., 16pp plates, text ills; 4to, stiff boards, dust jacket. Neat owner inscription, very good Contributors included Edna Walling, H.H. Richardson, K.S.Prichard, Clarice Beckett, Hilda Rix Nicholas and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite $35

Item 140

FRASER,  Flora The English Gentlewoman London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1987, first edition pp222, colour & b/w plates; 4to, cloth, fine in dust jacket $25

Item 141

FRIEDAN,  Betty The Second Stage London, Michael Joseph, 1982 pp384, 8vo, cloth. Paper browned, else a good copy in dust wrapper Feminist classic $25

Item 142

FRY,  E Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, with extracts from her Journal and Letters. By two of her daughters. 2 volumes London, Charles Gilpin, 1847, first edition ppxii, 496, (4); viii, 524, (6), engraved frontis. to each vol. 8vo, original bind stamped cloth, gilt lettering. Some foxing to frontis. of vol. 1, else very good copies For more than 25 years Elizabeth Fry visited every convict ship leaving for Australia. She founded the `British Ladies' Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners in 1821'. As well as giving birth to 11 children, she also worked for the education of working women, the homeless, and the mentally ill $295

Item 143

FURLONG,  Monica The Light of the Kingfisher. A Journey Among the Kukatja Aborigines London, HarperCollins, 1996,first edition pp178, 8vo, cloth hardcover). Very good The author stayed with the aboriginal community of Wirrumanu at Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia $20

Item 144

GARNER,  Helen Cosmo Cosmolino Melbourne, McPhee Gribble, 1992. First edition pp224, 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine d/w Inscribed `To the Windsors/ affectionately/Helen Garner/March'92' $55

Item 145

GARNER,  Helen Honour And Other People's Children. Two stories Melbourne, McPhee Gribble, 1980. First edition pp156, 8vo, cloth. A little spotting, else very good in fine dust jacket Garner's second book. Signed `Helen Garner' $175

Item 146

GARNER,  Helen The Spare Room Melbourne, Text, 2008. First edition pp196, 8vo, hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket Garner's first novel since 1992 $25

Item 147

GASKELL,  Mrs Cranford London, Dent, 1904 pp256, colour ills. by C.E. Brock; 8vo, attractive decorated cloth gilt. Scattered foxing, else very good $35

Item 148

GASKELL,  Mrs Wives And Daughters, An Every Day Story London, Smith Elder & Co, 1867. A new edition pp592, b/w illus; 8vo, old library cloth (edges worn, outer spine splitting). Scattered heavy foxing, else a good copy First published in 2 volumes the previous year $95

Item 149

GASKIN,  Catherine Sara Dane Sydney, Collins, 1954. 1st edition pp448, 8vo, cloth, d/w (rubbed). Edges a little dusty, else a very good copy Historical novel set in Sydney's early convict days $25

Item 150

GATTEY,  Charles Neilson Queens Of Song London, 1979. 1st ed pp248, photoplates; 8vo, bound in full leather gilt. Fine Melba, Malibran, Tetrazzini, Patti, Lind, and other divas $25

Item 151

GEORGE,  Elizabeth A Great Deliverance London, Bantam, 1989 First UK edition pp256, 8vo, hard cover, in . Fine dust jacket The first Inspector Lynley mystery $55

Item 152

GIBBONS,  Stella Here Be Dragons London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946. First edition pp316; 8vo, hard cover. A little spotting, else very good in price-clipped dust jacket $40

Item 153

GIBBS,  May Mother Of The Gumnuts. Her life and work. By Maureen Walsh. [Tog. with] Gumnut Classics. The Famous Gumnut Adventures. 2 volumes in slipcase Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1985, first edition pp228; 496, profusely illus; 4to, cloth, dust jackets, very slightly sunned. Fine in fine slip-case Critical biography together with an anthology of this much loved author's work. Winner of the Book Design award for 1985 $95

Item 154

GILBERT,  O.P Men in Women's Guise. Some Historical Instances of Female Impersonation. Translated from the French by Robert B. Douglas London, Bodley Head, [1926] ppxvi, 284, [4], 6 photoplates; roy. 8vo, original cloth, gilt lettering. A fine copy Includes the Abbe de Choisy, the Chevalier d'Eon., Philip d'Orleans, and men who have made their careers in the theatre as women $110

Item 155

GILMORE,  Mary Hound Of The Road Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1922. First edition pp160, 8vo, cloth, spine a little bowed, else fine Prose musings by this leading Australian poet $35

Item 156

GILMORE,  Mary Letters. Selected & edited by W.H. Wilde & T. Inglis Moore Melbourne, University Press, 1980. First edition pp428, photoplates; 8vo, cloth . Very good in fine dust wrapper `Review copy' notice on MUP letterhead pasted in $25

Item 157

GILMORE,  Mary Verse For Children Sydney, 1955. First, hand-set, edition pp24, illus. by Celeste Mass; sm. 8vo, pictorial cloth. Neat owner name. A fine copy in the dust jacket $45

Item 158

GLYN,  Anthony Elinor Glyn London, Hutchinson, 1955. Reprint pp356, photoplates. 8vo, cloth, edges tanned, a few fox spots. Name on fly, else a good copy in d/w The beautiful actress and her relationships with the important men of the Edwardian era $20

Item 159

GORDIMER,  Nadine The Essential Gesture. Writing, Politics and Places. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman London, Cape, 1988, 1st edition pp356, 8vo, cloth, d/w. Edges sl. spotted, else fine in dustwrapper Non fiction from the acclaimed South African writer $22

Item 160

[GREENAWAY,  Kate] Kate Greenaway. A Biography. By Rodney Engen London, Macdonald, 1981, first edition pp240, colour & b/w illus; 4to, cloth. Very good in d/w The 19th century children's author and illustrator $60

Item 161

GREER,  Germaine Daddy We Hardly Knew You London, Hamish Hamilton, 1989. First edition pp312, 8vo, cloth. Edges foxed and browned, neat owner name; else very good in the dust jacket Greer examines the affects of war on men, through her quest to understand her father $22

Item 162

GREER,  Germaine Greer Untamed Shrew. By Christine Wallace Sydney, Macmillan, 1997. 1st edition pp384, plates, 8vo, cloth, d/w. Very good An unauthorised biography $25

Item 163

GREER,  Germaine The Obstacle Race, The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work London, Secker & Warburg, 1979. First edition pp374, colour & b/w plates; roy. 8vo, cloth. Offsetting to prelims from newspaper cutting, else fine in dust jacket $50

Item 164

GREER,  Germaine On Rage Melbourne University Press, 2008. First edition pp108. 8vo, boards. No d/w as issued Greer's essay on the plight of Australian Aborigines. In MUP's `Little Books on Big Themes' series $25

Item 165

GREER,  Germaine Shakespeare's Wife London, 2007. First softcover edition pp406, 8vo, wrappers. Neat owner name. Fine copy $18

Item 166

GREER,  Germaine Slip-Shod Sibyls. Recognition, rejection, and the woman poet London, Viking, 1995. First edition pp518, photoplates. 8vo, cloth (hardcover). Neat owner name, else fine in dustjacket $30

Item 167

[GREER  Germaine , and others] No Return Ticket. Clyde Packer interviews nine famous Australian expatriates including Robert Hughes, Gordon Chater, Germaine Greer, Maxwell Newton, Zoe Caldwell and Sumner Locke Elliott Sydney, A & R., 1984. 1st edition pp156, b/w plates; 8vo, hard cover. Fine in dust jacket $30

Item 168

GRENVILLE,  Kate Dark Places Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 1994. First edition pp376, 8vo, cloth. Slight tanning to edges, else fine in fine dust jacket Signed and inscribed by Grenville $65

Item 169

GRENVILLE,  Kate The Idea of Perfection Sydney, Picador, 1999, first edition pp404. 8vo, wrappers (softcover). Paper tanned, else very good. Signed `Kate Grenville' This was the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. An invitation to the launch (by Margaret Throsby) is tipped in $75

Item 170

GRENVILLE,  Kate Lilian's Story Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1986. First edition pp228, 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket Acclaimed first novel which won the Australian/Vogel award in 1984. Later editions have a different text, based on the first American edition. Grenville later won the International Orange Prize for fiction. Signed and inscribed by Grenville `with thanks and love' $110

Item 171

GUNTHER. La Mode. Ete 1958 Costumes et Manteaux Paris, Gunther & Co, 1958 colour plates; folio, softcover [210x350mm]. Fine French fashion patterns $35

Item 172

HAAG,  Michael The Quest for Mary Magdalene. History and Legend London, Profile Books, first edition pp324, illustrated; 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket $25

Item 173

HALLIGAN,  Marion, & Rosanne Fitzgibbon, editors The Gift of Story. Three decades of UQP short stories St Lucis, UQP, 1998. First edition pp466; 8vo, cloth. Paper browned, else very good in fine d/w Thea Astley, Olga Masters, Kate Grenville, Lily Brett, Gillian Mears, and others $22

Item 174

[HARGROVE,  Ethel] Loiterings among the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland. By the author of `Wanderings in the Isle of Wight' London, RTS, c. 1860 pp208, colour frontis. by Kronheim, text ills. Sm. 8vo, pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt. A little spotting, else a good copy of a very attractive little book $65

Item 175

HARROWER,  Elizabeth The Watch Tower London, 1966, 1st edition pp220, 8vo, cloth. Very good in d/w $25

Item 176

HARRY,  J.S A Dandelion for Van Gogh Sydney, Island Press, 1985. First edition pp56, 8vo, wrappers. Small mark on cover where sticker has been, else very good No. 33 of 1000 copies $20

Item 177

HARRY,  J.S The Deer Under The Skin Brisbane, UQP, 1971. First edition pp56, 8vo, wrappers. Very good Paperback Poets 5. Author's first book, it was awarded the Harri Jones prize $25

Item 178

HART,  Deborah Joy Hester and Friends Melbourne, National Gallery of Australia, 2001, first edition pp136, colour & b/w plates; 4to (240x290mm), softcover, card wrappers. Very good A well illustrated catalogue of Hester's painting from the 1940s to 1960. Covers her marriage to Albert Tucker, and her friendship with Sidney Nolan and John and Sunday Reed $35

Item 179

HARTNETT,  Sonya Of A Boy Melbourne, Viking Penguin, 2002, first edition pp198. 8vo, hard cover [135x210mm]. Paper lightly tanned, lower edge sl. scraped, else fine in fine dust jacket Suspense novel set in Melbourne $25

Item 180

HAZZARD  Shirley Coming of Age in Australia. The Boyer Lectures 1984 Sydney, ABC, 1985 (1st ed.) pp62, 8vo, wrappers. Very good $25

Item 181

HAZZARD,  Shirley The Transit Of Venus London, Macmillan, 1980, 1st U.K. edition pp338, 8vo, cloth. Top edges spotted, else very good in the dust jacket (minimal rubbing at edges) Most acclaimed novel from Australian author Hazzard, long time resident in New York $35

Item 182

HEYER,  Georgette My Lord John London, The Bodley Head, 1975, First edition pp382, 8vo, cloth. A fine copy in fine dust jacket Heyer's last novel, published the year after her death. Her attempt at a serious historical novel about the soldier and statesman John Duke of Bedford, the son of England's Henry IV $25

Item 183

HICKMAN,  Kate Daughters of Britannia. The Life and Times of Diplomatic Lives London, HarperCollins,1999 pp324, photoplates, endpaper maps; 8vo, cloth. Paper tanned else fine in fine dust jacket Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, Isabel Burton, and others. Signed `Katie Hickman' $25

Item 184

HILTON,  Lisa Queen's Consort. England's Medieval Queens London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008 ppxiv, 482, plates, 8vo, cloth. Fine in dustwrapper $35

Item 185

HOLLAND,  Lady The Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland. (1791-1811). Edited by the Earl of Ilchester. 2 volumes London, Longmans Green, 1908. First edition portrait frontis. to each vol; roy. 8vo, cloth gilt, slight flecking. Foxing to edges, else very good copies Married to the 3rd Lord Holland, Elizabeth Fox was another formidable Whig hostess $95

Item 186

HOSIE,  Lady Portrait of a Chinese Lady and certain of her contempories London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1929] ppxvi, 404, 24 b/w plates; roy. 8vo, cloth gilt, sl. rubbed. A little foxing, neat owner name, else very good $35

Item 187

HUGHES,  Bettany Helen of Troy. Goddess, Princess, Whore London, Cape, 2005. First edition ppxxxviii, 458, colour plates, maps. Roy. 8vo, cloth. Sl. tanning, else fine in fine dust jacket $35

Item 188

HUGHES,  Mary Kent Matilda Waltzes With The Tommies Melbourne, 1946 (rep.) pp176, endpaper maps, plates; 8vo, hard cover. Nice copy in the attractive dust jacket An Australian woman's travels whilst on active service with the British Army $25

Item 189

[HUMPHRIES,  Barry] Handling Edna. the Unauthorised Biography Sydney, Hachete, 2009. First edition pp388, photoplates; 8vo, cloth. Fine in d/w $25

Item 190

JAMES,  Alice The Diary Of Alice James. Edited by Leon Edel London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965. First edition pp242, frontis portrait; 8vo, hard cover. Top edge tanned, else very good in (sl. rubbed). dust jacket $25

Item 191

JAMES  P.D Time to Be Ernest. A Fragment of Autobiography London, Faber & Faber, 1999. First edition pp 282, plates. 8vo., cloth, edges sl. browned, neat owner name. Fine in d/w $25

Item 192

JEAFFRESON,  John Cordy Brides and Bridals. In Two Volumes London, Hurst and Blackett, 1872 pp362; 364 royal 8vo, calf backed boards. Sl rubbed, very good copies Comprehensive history of marriage and weddings - everything from contracts to wedding cakes $250

Item 193

JEFFERIS,  Barbara Solo For Several Players London, Dent, 1961,1st edition pp120, 8vo, hard cover. Very good in like (price clipped) dust jacket South Australian writer - the Barbara Jefferis Award was crated in her honour in 2007. This is her third novel $35

Item 194

JEFFERIS,  Barbara The Tall One New York, Morrow, 1977,1st US edition pp288. 8vo, hard cover.-backed boards. Very good in like (price clipped) dust jacket $25

Item 195

JEFFERIS,  Barbara Time of the Unicorn London, Gollancz, 1974,1st edition pp274, 8vo, hard cover. Edges sl. spotted, offsetting to flyleaf where newspaper cutting and been inserted, else very good in like (price-clipped) dust jacket $30

Item 196

JEFFERIS,  Barbara The Wild Grapes London, Michael Joseph, 1963,1st edition pp226, 8vo, hard cover. Edges spotted, neat owner, else very good in like (price-clipped) dust jacket $35

Item 197

JHABVALA,  Ruth Prawer Get Ready for Battle London, John Murray, 1962. First edition pp224, 8vo, cloth. Edges lightly spotted, else very good in fine dustwrapepr (price-clipped) $35

Item 198

JOHNSON,   Susan Flying Lessons Melbourne, Heinemann, 1990. First edition pp334, 8vo, cloth. Lower edge a little scraped, else fine in fine d/w Signed and inscribed by the author $25

Item 199

JOLLEY,  Elizabeth Foxybaby Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1985, 1st. edition pp262, 8vo, cloth. Paper heavily tanned, else very good in fine d/w $20

Item 200

JOLLEY,  Elizabeth My Father's Moon Melbourne, Viking, 1989, 1st edition pp170, 8vo, cloth. Paper browned, very good in fine d/w $20

Item 201

JOLLEY,  Elizabeth Palomino London, Melbourne House, 1980. First UK edition pp260, 8vo, cloth.Top edge dusty, else very good in like d/w (price-clipped) Elizabeth Jolley's first published novel $25

Item 202

JOLLEY,  Elizabeth Stories. Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1984. First edition thus pp298; 8vo, wrappers. Edges spotted, else fine First reprint of Jolley's first two books $18

Item 203

JOLLEY,  Elizabeth The Sugar Mother Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988. First edition pp210, frontis.. 8vo, cloth. Very good in fine d/w $22

Item 204

JOLLEY,  Elizabeth The Well Melbourne, Viking, 1986. First edition pp176, 8vo, cloth (hardback). Edges spotted, else fine in price-clipped jacket $20

Item 205

JONES,  Kathleen The Passionate Sisterhood. Sisters, Wives and Daughters of the Lake Poets London, Constable, 1997, first edition ppxx, 314, 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dustwrapper $30

Item 206

[JOYCE, L] SHLOSS,  Carol Loeb Lucia Joyce. To Dance in the Wake London, Bloomsbury, 2004, first edition pp562, large 8vo, cloth. Neat owner name, else fine in dust jacket The story of James Joyce's troubled daughter $25

Item 207

KAYE,  M. M The Golden Calm. An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi. Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and her Father, Sir Thomas Metcalfe London, Web & Bower, 1980. First edition pp220, profusely illus. in colour; 4to, leatherette. Top edges sl. dusty, else very good in dustjacket (price-clipped) $25

Item 208

KEESING,  Nancy Riding the Elephant Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1988. First edition pp234, photoplates. 8vo, cloth. Very good in sl. torn d/w Autobiographical memoir and overview of the Australian literary scene in the second half of the 20th century $30

Item 209

KEESING,  Nancy, selected by The White Chrysanthemum. Changing images of Australian Motherhood Sydney, 1977 pp182, col. & b/w ills; 4to, hard cover. Very good in dust jacket Anthology of prose and paintings $25

Item 210

KELAHER,  Mary The Green Years London, Nelson, 1936. Second impression pp316. 8vo, cloth. Spotting to edges, else very good in sl. chipped dust jacket Novel set in north-western New South Wales and Sydney before and after WW1. Explores class conflicts through life on the land as opposed to city life $25

Item 211

KEMP-WELSH,  Alice Of Six Mediaeval Women. To Which is Added A Note on Mediaeval Gardens London, Macmillan, 1913 ppxx, 190, 26 photo plates. 8vo, half calf (sl. sunned) over straight-grained cloth boards, spines raised in compartments, gilt lettering, Top edge gilt, others sl. spotted. Very good The women are tenth century Roswitha, Marie de France, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Mahaut, Countess of Artois, Christine de Pisan, Agnes Sorel $35

Item 212

KENT,  Jacqueline A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis. A Literary Life Melbourne, Viking Penguin, 2001. First edition pp344 illus. 8vo, cloth. Extremities slightly rubbed, else fine in dust jacket Biography of Australia's most acclaimed book editor, who nurtured the talents of Australian writers from the 1930s to the `70s $25

Item 213

KEYES,  Frances Parkinson The River Road Sydney, Dymock's Book Arcade, 1946. First Australian edition 472 pages; 8vo, cloth. Very good in dust jacket $25

Item 214

KLAPISCH-ZUBER,  Christine, editor A History of Women in the West. Silences of the Middle Ages Harvard University Press, 1992. First edition pp576, illustrated; large 8vo, cloth. Some spotting to edges, else fine in fine dustwrapper $25

Item 215

KRETSER,  Michelle de The Hamilton Case Sydney,Knopf, 2003. First edition pp370; 8vo, cloth, paper sl. browned. Fine in d/w $25

Item 216

LABARGE,  Margaret Wade Women in Medieval Life. A Small Sound of the Trumpet London, Hamish Hamilton, 1986. First edition pp272, illustrated; 8vo, cloth. Edges spotted, else fine in sl. sunned dustwrapper $25

Item 217

[LADY HAMILTON] RUSSELL,  Jack Nelson and the Hamiltons London, Anthony Blond, 1969 pp372, photoplates; 8vo, hard cover. Edges sl. spotted, else very good in (price clipped) dust jacket $22

Item 218

LAMB,  Charles & Mary Works In Prose And Verse: Edited by Thomas Hutchinson. 2 volumes Oxford, [c.1908] b/w frontis. in each volume; 8vo, bound in full padded leather gilt, all edges gilt. A very attractive set Mary Lamb (1764-1847) suffered from depression and mental illness for most of her life. In 1794 she stabbed her mother to death, and was incarcerated in various homes. In spite of this, and because of her brother Charles' care, she and Charles had a succesful literary life $75

Item 219

LANSBURY,  Coral Arcady in Australia. The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-Century English Literature Melbourne, M.U.P., 1970. First edition pp202, 8vo, hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket With notes, bibliography, and index. A provocative look at the vision of Australia in English literature, particularly in the books of Charles Dickens. Written by the academic Lansbury, who was also the mother of Australia's Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull $30

Item 220

LAUDER,  Estee Estee. A Success Story New York, 1985. First edition pp304, photo-plates; 8vo, cloth. Fine in d/w Autobiography by the head of the successful cosmetics company $22

Item 221

LAWSON,  Louisa Louisa. By Brian Matthews Melbourne, McPhee Gribble, 1987. First edition pp422, 8vo, cloth. Edges spotted, else fine in fine d/w The only biography of Henry Lawson's activist, feminist, journalist and poet mother $25

Item 222

LEAR,  Edward The Pobble Who Has No Toes Brisbane, Lock's Press, 1979 8 engravings by Margaret Lock; folio, original cloth with illus paper title label pasted down on front board, deckle edges. Hand printed endpapers. A fine copy The first book of this Brisbane press, and one of the finest private press books produced in Australia. Number 11 of 60 copies. The paper is velin Arches white, 250 gsm. The text is set in 24 point Caslon. Text and illustrations engraved and printed by Margaret Lock, who has numbered and signed the book $1595

Item 223

LEHMANN,  John Thrown to the Woolfs New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979, 1st U.S. edition pp164, photoplates, 8vo, boards (sl. bowed). Very good in price-clipped dust jacket Lehmann's friendship with Virginia and Leonard and his partnership in the Hogarth Press $30

Item 224

[LENNOX SISTERS] TILLYARD,  Stella Aristocrats. Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832 London, Chatto & Windus, 1994, first edition ppxiv, 462, b/w & col. illus, 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket The sisters were connected by birth or marriage to most of the noble and political families in Georgian England and Ireland. Through their letters, journals, household accounts, and lists of debts, Tillyard has constructed a dazzling account of 18th century aristocratic life $25

Item 225

LESLIE,  Anita Jennie. The life of Lady Randolph Churchill London, Hutchinson. 1969.First edition pp370, b/w plates; roy. 8vo, cloth (hardback). Faint foxing to edges, else a good copy in sl. soiled dust jacket Biography of Winston Churchill's mother $20

Item 226

LESSING,  Doris The Good Terrorist London, Cape, 1985, 1st edition pp30, 8vo, cloth. Top edges dusty, else very good in dust jacket $25

Item 227

LESSING,  Doris The Habit of Loving New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957 pp310, 8vo, hard cover, price clipped , else fine dust jacket A collection of short stories $35

Item 228

LEYSER,  Henrietta Medieval Women. A social history of Women in England 450 - 1500 London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995, first edition ppxii, 338, photoplates. 8vo, cloth. Edges sl. dusty, else fine in fine dustwrapper $25

Item 229

LINDSAY,  Joan Time Without Clocks Melbourne, Cheshire, 1962. First edition pp216, 8vo, cloth. Very good in sl. darkened dust wrapper Autobiography of the author of `Picnic at Hanging Rock', and wife of Sir Daryl Lindsay of the talented Lindsay family $25

Item 230

LINDSAY,  Norman The Letters Of Rachel Henning. Edited by David Adams, with a foreword and 40 pen-drawings by Lindsay Sydney, 1952. 1st edition pp126, pen drawings by Lindsay, photos and maps; 4to, wrappers. Fine $45

Item 231

LOFTS,  Norah Domestic Life in England London, 1976. First edition pp254, colour & b/w ills. 4to, cloth (hardback), Top edges spotted, else very good in sl. sunned, price-clipped dust jacket Every-day life in England from the Norman Conquest to the present $25

Item 232

LORD,  Gabrielle Tooth & Claw Sydney, Aurora Press, 1983, 1st edition pp157, 8vo, cloth, edges lightly spotted. Very good in the attractive dust jacket Lord's second book $25

Item 233

LOVELL  Mary Straight on Till Morning. The biography of Beryl Markham London, Hutchinson, 1987, rep. same year as 1st edition pp408, photoplates. 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper The flamboyant life of this pioneer flyer, bush pilot, racehorse trainer, and lover of powerful men $22

Item 234

LURIE,  Alison The War Between the Tates New York, Random House, 1974 pp372, 8vo, cloth (hardback). Spine sl. leaning, else fine in fine dustjacket $22

Item 235

LUTYENS,  Mary (edited by) Millais & The Ruskins London, John Murray, 1967, 2nd printing pp296, col. frontis., b/w plates; 8vo, hard cover, spine sl. leaning. Very good in (price-clipped) dust jacket Effie Ruskin and her marriages to Ruskin and Millais $22

Item 236

MacCARTHY,  Fiona Last Curtsey. The End of the Debutantes London, Faber, 2006, first edition ppxiv, 306, b/w photoplates & illus; roy. 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket $35

Item 237

[MCCRAE, G.] NIALL,  Brenda Georgiana A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, painter, diarist, pioneer. With a catalogue of the plates by Caroline Clemente Melbourne University Press, 1994 (rep.) pp346, b/w & colour photoplates, 8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket $25

Item 238

MCGRATH,  E The Work Of Eileen McGrath. With contributions by G. Rayner Hoff, E.H. Shea, Norman Lindsay, Leslie Wilkinson and J.S. McDonald and others Sydney Technical College, 1931. First edition tipped-in col. plates, b/w ills; 4to, printed card boards with dust jacket. A good copy One of only 1000 numbered copies for private distribution, signed by McGrath, Shea (the printer) and Rayner Hoff. Norman Lindsay contributed an extensive foreword. An important example of Australian fine press printing $195

Item 239

MACK,  A.E A Bush Calendar Sydney, 1914, 3rd edition, revised pp110, photo plates; 8vo, pict. cloth. Very good Lists of flowers and birds most in prominence each calender month in the coastal areas of Sydney $25

Item 240

MACK,  A.E Bush Days Sydney, 1911, 1st edition pp132, photo plates; 8vo, pict. cloth, soiled, rubbed. $30

Item 241

MACK,  A.E Bush Days Sydney, A&R,1911, first edition pp132, photo plates; 8vo, pict. cloth, faded. Owner inscript.else a good copy Muir 4586 $25

Item 242

MACKENZIE,  Barbara & Findlay Singers Of Australia. From Melba to Sutherland Melbourne, 1967. First edition pp310, b/w plates, tipped-in col. frontis; 4to, cloth, Very good in price-clipped d/w $25

Item 243

McPHEE,  Hiliary Other People's Words Sydney, Picador, 2001. First edition pp312; sm. 8vo, dec. boards. Slight spotting to top edges, else fine in dust jacket The story of the friendship between McPhee and Diana Gribble and their small independent publishing house $22

Item 244

MACPHERSON  Deirdre The Suffragette's Daughter Betty Archdale Her Life of Feminism, Cricket, War and Education Sydney, Rosenberg, 2002 pp328, b/w ills, 8vo., fine with d/w $25

Item 245

MALCOLM,  Janet Two Lives. Gertrude and Alice Melbourne University Press, 2007. First Aust. edition pp230; 8vo, cloth, edges sl. spotted, else very good in dustwrapper $25

Item 246

[MANDRAKE PRESS] CHAUCER,  Geoffrey Wyf Of Bathe. Decorated by Pearl Binder London, Mandrake Press, 1929. First (only) edition pp44 (printed on Japon vellum], illustrations in red and black by Pearl Binder; 8vo, cream papered boards, slightly discoloured, else very good One of the two `black letter booklets' published by P.R. Stephensen's short-lived Mandrake Press [1929-30] $145

Item 247

MANSFIELD,  Katherine Collected Stories London,Constable, 1948 (reprint) pp796, 8vo, hardcover, edges slightly dusty, otherwise a nice copy with dust jacket $22

Item 248

MANSFIELD,  Katherine Journal 1904-1922. Edited by J. Middleton Murry London, Constable, 1954 (Definitive edition) pp336, b/w frontis; 8vo, cloth. Old tape marks on endpapers, else very good in like dust jacket $25

Item 249

MANSFIELD,  Katherine Katherine Mansfield's Letters To John Middleton Murry 1913-1922. Edited by John Middleton Murry London, Constable, 1951,( reprint same month as first edition) pp702, b/w frontis; roy. 8vo, cloth,Very good without dust jacket. Contains many letters not published in the 1928 volumes See Kirkpatrick A16 $30

Item 250

[MARIE ANTOINETTE] FRASER,  Antonia Marie Antoinette. The Journey London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.First edition ppxviii, 488, colour plates, maps.8vo, cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket Beautifully illustrated, scholarly biography $40

Item 251

MARSH,  Ngaio Black Beech & Honeydew. An autobiography London, Collins, 1966, 1st edition pp288, b/w photographs; 8vo, cloth, top edge faintly spotted, else very good in dust jacket The New Zealand `Queen of Crime' $25

Item 252

[MARSH,  Ngaio] A Life. By Margaret Lewis London, Chatto, 1999. First edition pp276,photoplates; 8vo, hard cover. Paper browned, else very good in dust jacket Biography of the New Zealand born writer of detective fiction $25

Item 253

MARTINEAU,  Harriet Feats on the Ford London, Routledge, n.d. (c.1900). New edition pp192, sm 8vo, pictorial blue cloth ruled in black, gilt lettering, gilt edges. Extremities a little rubbd, else very good $30

Item 254

[MARTINEAU,  Harriet] The Life and Work: by Vera Wheatley London, 1957, first edition pp420, photoplates; 8vo, hard cover. Name on fly; a good copy in dust jacket Biography of the 19th century writer, educationalist, and feminist $35

Item 255

MARTINEAU,  Harriet The Playfellow. The Crofton Boys. A Tale London, Charles Knight & Co, 1841. First edition ppviii, 336, sm. 8vo, bound in cloth, leather title label on spine. Very good $95

Item 256

MARTINEAU,  Harriet Settlers at Home London, Routledge, n.d. (c.1900) pp192, sm 8vo, pictorial blue cloth ruled in black, gilt lettering, gilt edges. Very good $35