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[6] CAMPBELL, David.Starting from Central Station: a sequence ofpoems… Illustrated by William Huff-Johnston.Canberra, The Brindabella Press, 1973. Octavo,pp. 20 (last blank); fine in the original plainwrappers with attached dustwrapper. $440First edition: limited to 220 numbered and signedcopies, 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’sBrindabella Press. Richards, 2.[7] HOPE, Alec Derwent.The Drifting Continent and other poems by A.D.Hope Illustrated by Arthur Boyd. Canberra,Brindabella Press, 1979. Octavo, pp. 46, [2], with20 illustrations (most full-page) by Arthur Boyd;fine in the original leather-backed dark green clothboards blocked with Boyd’s title-page decoration,with the original clear plastic wrapper. $550First edition: the sixth book of the press, limited to285 numbered copies signed by the author andartist. Richards, 9.[8] NEILSON, John Shaw.Some Poems of Shaw Neilson. Selected and withwood-engravings by Barbara Hanrahan. Canberra,Brindabella Press, 1984. Octavo, pp. [44] (lastblank), with 13 wood-engravings by BarbaraHanrahan; fine in the original quarter calf and bluecloth boards (hand-bound by Brian Hawke), bottomfore-corners slightly bumped, with original glassinedustwrapper. $330The eleventh book from the Brindabella Press,limited to 230 numbered copies signed by the artist,and one of the most highly regarded of Bolton’sproductions. Richards, 15.[9] STEAD, Christina.The Palace with Several Sides: A Sort of LoveStory. Canberra, Brindabella Press, 1986. Smalloctavo, pp. 36, with woodcuts by Mike Hudson;fine in the original card wrappers. $220First edition and very scarce: edited from theoriginal manuscript by R.G. Geering and firstprinted at Alec Bolton’s Brindabella Press (ofwhich this was the twelfth work and one ofBolton’s favourites) in an edition limited to 220copies. Richards, 16.[10] MURRAY, Les A.The Idyll Wheel: Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, NewSouth Wales, April 1986 – April 1987. Woodengravings by Rosalind Atkins. Canberra, OfficinaBrindabella, 1989. Quarto, with wood engravings;fine, original unlettered kangaroo hide spine, labelin two colours on the front board, with originalplain mylar dustwrapper. $550First edition and now very scarce: number 232 ofan edition limited to 290 numbered and signedcopies. Richards, 21.[11] SLESSOR, Kenneth.The Sea Poems of Kenneth Slessor. Canberra,Officina Brindabella, 1990. Folio, pp. [ii], 42, [4](first colophon, others blank); fine in the originalHelen Wadlington boards and black leather spinelettered in gilt with original plain mylardustwrapper. $330Edition limited to 240 copies, numbered andinitialled by the publisher; with an introduction byDennis Haskell and superb wood-engravings byMike Hudson. Publisher Alec Bolton consideredthis his best book. Richards, 23.[12] HANRAHAN, Barbara.Iris in Her Garden: Eight Stories with reliefetchings by the author. Canberra, OfficinaBrindabella, 1991. Octavo, pp. [ii] (blank), 62 (lastblank), [2] (colophon, verso blank), withillustrations by the author in contrasting coloursthroughout; about fine in the original card wrapperswith like dustwrapper that has a design by theauthor tipped onto the front panel. $440First edition, extremely scarce: edition limited to250 numbered and signed copies. This wasHanrahan’s thirteenth book, the last published inher lifetime. Richards, 24.

[13] MICHAELIS, Moritz.Chapters from the Story of My Life. Melbourne,Norman Bros., Printers, 1899. Octavo, pp. 156 +frontispiece photographic portrait; internally fine inthe original red roan (some rubbing and use), thefront board lettered and decorated in gilt, bothboards decorated in blind. $770First edition: a very rare piece of early AustralianJudaica and Melbourne local history interest.Michaelis’s book, published for private distributionin the author’s family, records the life of anextraordinary man.German-born and English trained, Michaelis cameto Australia in the gold rush era to represent aManchester firm. He and his partners survivedseveral reverses of fortune to build a highlysuccessful retail and leather goods manufacturingbusiness in Melbourne. His house “Linden” in St.Kilda is one of Melbourne’s architectural treasures.Michaelis, always subject to poor health, died in1902, a few years after publishing these memoirs.Full details of his life, wide-ranging interests, andinvolvement in the Victorian community will befound in ADB 5: 245-6, and in Walsh and Hooton2: 176-7.Several facsimile editions of varying quality havebeen printed in recent years but this original editionis almost never seen, with less than a handful ofcopies in institutional collections. Not in Ferguson;Liberman and Young, F1106.

[14] [OUTHWAITE] RENTOUL, Ida S. andAnnie R. RENTOUL.Mollie’s Bunyip by A.R. Rentoul and I.S. Rentoul.Melbourne, Robert Jolley, 1904. Oblong quarto,pp. [50], each leaf printed on one side only, withtwelve full-page line-drawn illustrations and withtitle-page vignette and page decorations in sepiathroughout; some spotting throughout but a verygood copy, original pictorial wrappers, ribbon tiesrenewed. $5500INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY of the very firstpublication of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, with handscriptedtext by her elder sister Annie. Inscribedand signed on the title-leaf by both sisters: “ WithCompliments Annie R. Rentoul Ida S. Rentoul”.Essentially a private publication – certainly onewith a very limited circulation – it was publishedwhen Ida was just sixteen. It is the story of Mollie’swanderings in the bush and her eventual rescue bythe spirit of the friendly Bunyip. Ida collaboratedwith her mother on a second book, Mollie’sStaircase, two years later in 1906.A somewhat fragile piece – impractical when oneconsiders its abusive original child audience –Mollie’s Bunyip is rare on the market butpresentation copies, especially from both sisters,are virtually unknown.

Twelve years on life has lost itsearly hope: “I have got 7 childrenalive, 5 girls and 2 boys… I am stillliving in the same employ. I amshepherding this 4 years… we havehad very bad weather this last twoyears it has been very wet and wehave had grate floods and the sheepand cattle are dying in gratenumbers with the diseases. I willsend you my likeness but I have notyet my wifes nor children taken…dear brother I wish you would letme know the year I was born. Iforget but I think it was the year1819 Feb. the 8…”.Quite moving documentation of theordinary man and the gold rush.[15] [NEW SOUTH WALES: GOLD]HUCKINS, John P.Two autograph letters from an Americanprospector to his brother in New Hampshire, USA.Maneroo (i.e. Monaro) and Bibbenluke (nearBombala), New South Wales, 12 October, 1860,and 24 July, 1871. Two letters, octavo, six pagesink manuscript on eight leaves; some minor generaluse but in very good and legible state. $660Like thousands of other Americans, Huckins wentto Australia to make his fortune on the goldfields.Some years later he found himself impoverished insouthern New South Wales.His first letter expresses hope for the future: “Thewhole family is enjoying good health… A very richanticipated gold field has been discovered in ourvicinity, which is causing a great alarm through thecountry, thousands are expected to assemble on aplace called the Snowy River very shortly, andplease God, I intend to be among the number,where I trust I shall find a nugget weighing 112 lbs.I believe this to be the richest country in the world.Any sober and industrious man can get on here…”.[16] WOODS, Julian Tenison-North Australia: Its PhysicalGeography and Natural History.Adelaide, Government Printer,1864. Octavo, pp. [viii] (first leafblank), 46, [2] (blank); a fine copy,in a handsome binding of quarterred morocco and cloth sides. $880First edition: rare.Written by one of colonial Australia’smost eminent scientists andthe historian of Australian inlandexploration (his substantial twovolumehistory would be publishedthe following year), this is theearliest work describing – and promotingthe merits of – the NorthernTerritory of South Australia, whichhad just come under the control ofSouth Australia by virtue of JohnMcDouall Stuart’s conquest of the south-northcrossing.The pamphlet was designed fully to inform thosewho wished to know more about the new Territorybut more especially for those who intended toexploit its scientific and commercial possibilities –and here Woods is intensely practical: “Theunderclothes should not be changed too often,because it causes excessive perspiration”.Based on extensive research by one who “had notonly read and re-read, but copied and condensed,the accounts of every exploration yet made uponthe north coast... [and] consulted every work Icould find in which North Australia has ever beenmentioned”, the closely-printed pamphlet compriseseight chapters: Discovery and Exploration,Physical Geography, Mineralogical Features, TheRivers of the North Coast, Climate, Natural History(everything from Aborigines to zoology), Geologyand Mineralogy, and Botany, and some practicalconcluding remarks for travellers and explorers.Ferguson, 18807 (not noting the initial and terminalblank leaves).

[17] [DAYLESFORD] PATTERSON, George.To Publicans, Housekeepers, &c. Furniture, Stockin-Trade,&c… [text continues]. Daylesford(Victoria), H.S. Hilton, Printer, “Mercury” Office,n.d. but 1860s – 1880s. Broadside folio handbill,315 x 225 mm; old folds (with some old stainsalong one fold, giving patina rather than offense),some neatly sealed edge tears, in excellent stateoverall. $550Extremely rare handbill advertising the sale bypublic auction of “the whole of [the] HouseholdFurniture, Kitchen Utensils, Stock-in-Trade, Etc.,Etc… First-Class Billiard Table...” from theAmerican Hotel, Old Racecourse, Daylesford.

[18] [PORTLAND, VICTORIA].A Trip to Portland: The Watering Place of theWest. Presented by the Portland Borough Council[wrapper title]. Melbourne, Arnall & Jackson,Printers and Stationers, 1880. Octavo, pp. [16],printed on green paper, decorations and decorativeborders throughout; a little pale diffuse foxing but afine copy in the original white titling-wrappers, titleprinted in red and black within decorative red andblack printed frame, attractive wood-engraved view“Portland, Victoria” on the back wrapper. $330Extremely scarce and ephemeral: a delightful piecepromoting the charms of seaside Portland. Theview of Portland on the back wrapper is illustratedabove. Ferguson, 14279 (noting pink wrappers andblue paper, possibly but not necessarily, describinga variant ).[19] [GEELONG] HEATH & CORDELL(publishers).Illustrated letter sheet, featuring a view of “YarraStreet, Market Square”. [Geelong], Heath &Cordell, n.d. but circa 1850s. Two conjugateleaves, quarto, with engraved letterhead, 95 x 188mm; one short marginal tear with a neat old repair,very good. $220A rare unused illustrated letter sheet featuring anengraving of “Yarra Street, Market Square” by DeGruchy and Leigh (artist unidentified).[20] NORMAN, William Henry.Exploration Expedition. Letter from CommanderNorman, reporting the return of the “Victoria” fromthe Gulf of Carpentaria; together with Reports andCorrespondence [together with] ExplorationExpedition. Report of Commander Norman, ofH.M.C.S. “Victoria,” together with Copy of hisJournal on the Late Expedition to the Gulf ofCarpentaria. Melbourne, John Ferres, 1862. Twopieces, foolscap folio, pp. 32; pp. 52; an excellentset, uncut, sewn as issued. $660The official report of the Northern Party of theBurke and Wills Relief Expeditions (i.e. the Walkerand Landsborough expeditions). The Victoria underCommander Norman transported Landsboroughand Walker’s parties to the Gulf of Carpentariawhere they set off south in search of the lostexplorers. This complete set of the two ParliamentaryPapers prints Norman’s reports as well as thoseof Landsborough and Walker. This is the onlypublication of Walker’s significant reports of hisexpedition.[21] FENNER, Charles.Two Historic Gumtrees associated with the Burkeand Wills Expedition of 1861 [wrapper title].Adelaide, Register Newspapers Limited, 1928.Octavo, pp. 22 (last blank), [2] (blank) + two leavesof plates; fine in the original wrappers. $85First edition: scarce. ANB, 15268; Maria, 68; not inMcLaren (but see his 1125 and 6610 for theperiodical printing).

[22] WARBURTON, Peter Egerton.Journey Across the Western Interior of Australia.London, Sampson Low, 1875. Octavo, with platesand folding map (coloured in outline), neat oldpaper reinforcement at the map folds, occasionallight spotting, small relevant newsclipping tippedonto half-title; a very good copy in the original giltpictorial cloth over bevelled boards. $2400FIRST EDITION: A PARTICULARLY APT ASSOCIATIONCOPY, with the ownership inscription of explorerand anthropologist Herbert Basedow on the halftitle.This is Warburton’s narrative of his expeditionfrom the Telegraph Line to the west coast whichwon the race to cross the continent from east towest. But Warburton beat Ernest Giles at a highcost. In the harsh Great Sandy Desert hisexpedition deteriorated into an endless search forwater. Within a few months half their camels weredead; provisions were low and much of theirequipment had been lost. They reached theOakover River just in time but even here they facedstarvation and had to eat camel hide while waitingfor help. The scientific portions of the work werearranged by Professor Owen, Dr. Hooker, JohnGould and Dr Henry Trimen; the text ofWarburton’s own journals was edited by H.W.Bates of the Royal Geographical Society; and anhistorical account of exploration in the westernthird of the Australian continent was added byCharles Eden. Ferguson, 18187; Wantrup, 201.The book includes several scientific appendiceswritten by notable Australian scientists: botany isdescribed by Ferdinand von Mueller and ProfessorRalph Tate, and the geological section is by H.Y.L.Brown. With only 600 copies printed, this is anelusive exploration pamphlet. Ferguson 17169;Wantrup 207.[24] BARRON, William.Report on North-West Trigonometrical Survey[drop title]. [Adelaide, Government Printer, 1878].Foolscap folio, pp. 4 (last blank); disbound. $220Rare: a detailed narrative for the minister of thetriginometric survey of 10,000 square miles in thearid north-west of South Australia by the SurveyorGeneral. The narrative records in considerabledetail the privations and great difficulties Barronand his party suffered in the course of theirseventeen-month expedition. In the end he can onlyreport that the land is sandy, densely covered withscrub, without surface water, without indications ofgold (but some traces of copper). Barron was awarethat his party was being tracked by a group ofAborigines and that they had even visited his campduring his absence but, despite his best efforts, wasunable to make contact with them; the explorerswere almost certainly the first white men – andhorses – these Aborigines would have seen. Anofficial printing, although not published in theparliamentary papers, this was probably preparedfor departmental use only. McLaren, 407.[23] TIETKENS, William Harry.Journal of the Central Australian ExploringExpedition, 1889. Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, 1891.Octavo, pp. [ii], 84 + large folding map, andfolding geological sketch; a little foxing, bound inneat contemporary plum binder’s cloth for J.H.Maiden. $1750A NICELY ASSOCIATED COPY of the extremely scarcefirst edition of the official account of this importantexpedition: the copy of leading biologist andnatural historian J.H. Maiden with his booklabeland bookplate.Tietkens had already twice served under Gileswhen, in 1889, he was appointed by theextraordinarily active South Australian Branch ofthe Royal Geographical Society of Australasia tolead an expedition to explore the land around LakeAmadeus in the Northern Territory.Leaving behind the settlement at Alice Springs, heset out in March 1889 with four men and twelvecamels, heading west along the MacdonnellRanges. Over the next five months Tietkinsfollowed a meandering route, exploring the areaand prospecting for minerals. At the end of May hediscovered a large lake which he named LakeMacdonald. His survey of Lake Macdonald led himto the southern banks of Lake Amadeus. From herehe headed south and then east across the land hehad explored with Giles over a decade earlier andreturned to Charlotte Waters.[25] WINNECKE, Charles.Mr. Winnecke’s Explorations during 1883. Diaryof Northern Exploration Party [drop title].Adelaide, Government Printer, 1884. Foolscapfolio, pp. 16 + a very large folding map; a fine copyin a handsome binding of quarter red morocco andcloth sides. $2200Rare: the report of Winnecke’s first privateexpedition. “In 1882, Winnecke resigned from theSurvey Department, Adelaide, to practise hisprofession privately. A year later he assembled aparty, equipped with camels, and set out to discoverpastoral country on the Queensland border betweenthe parallels 24° and 27° south. Immense tracts ofwaterless country were crossed, and in one instancewater was found only after the camels had travelled278 miles over high sandhills in the north-easternportion of the Simpson Desert.” (Feeken, et al.). Atthe end of the paper is a report from the indefatigableFerdinand von Mueller’s on plantscollected. McLaren 16972.[26] CURTIS, Leonard Samuel.The History of Broken Hill: Its Rise and Progress.Adelaide, Frearson, 1908. Quarto, illustrationsthroughout; free front endpaper but a very goodcopy in the original cloth. $880First edition: very scarce.

loss) in the last few leaves, a used but good, soundcopy in later plain wrappers. $220Rare: personal and detailed reminiscences of asettler in Camden from 1832. The present copy,which has also a few interesting contemporarymarginal ink annotations, has a neat 1885ownership inscription on the title and a presentationinscription “From A.M. Oxley, Wallerawang N.S.Wales”. Ferguson, 12305.[30] DALY, Lieut.-Colonel F.A B.Boer War Memories: Personal Experiences… Onthe Early Stages of the Boer War, 1899 – 1900.Melbourne, Wilke & Co. Pty. Ltd. [for the Author],November 1935. Octavo, pp. 56 + two leaves ofplates; original gilt-lettered plasticised cloth.$550Rare: an inscribed presentation copy of theprivately-published Boer War reminiscences of anofficer in the Royal Army Medical Corps. This isthe second edition, extended and revised from thefirst edition of May 1935; the second edition wassubsequently reprinted in 1936. Loosely insertedare a number of related printed slips with furtheradditions; these are accompanied by a signedautograph letter from the author to Sir EdwardConningham to whom this copy is inscribed.Despite three printings over 1935-6, all editions arerare. ANB, 12031; not in Dornbusch; Fielding andO’Neill, p. 132; not in Hackett.[27] MARKS, Percy J.Norfolk Island and the Bounty Mutiny. Sydney,Harris and Son for The Author, 1935. Octavo, pp.28; near fine in the original wrappers. $125Very scarce: edition limited to 200 copies for“private circulation”.[28] DE FREYCINET, Louis. Translation byThomas Cullity.Reflections on New South Wales 1788-1839.Sydney, Hordern House, 2001. Quarto, pp. [xxii](last blank), 670; eight colour and 20 black andwhite illustrations, original cloth with paper titlingpanel on front board, without dustwrapper asissued. $660Out-of-print and extremely scarce on the market.Limited edition of 300 copies; this is the firsttranslation into English of Frecinet’s account of thecolonisation of Australia and his experiences inearly Sydney and New South Wales.[29] [MARTIN, J.B.]Reminiscences by J.B.M. Being a reprint from theCamden Times. 1883. Camden, A.J. Doust, 1884.Octavo, pp. 42 (last advertisements), [2](advertisements); small defect in the top forecornerof the last leaf, a few sealed edge tears (no[31] GREER, Germaine.The Female Eunuch. London, Macgibbon & Kee,1970. Octavo, pp. 354, [2] (blank); top edge with alittle very pale spotting, an excellent copy with likeprice-clipped dustwrapper, the very fugitive pinklettering on the spine only very slightly faded.$330Rare: the first edition of a fundamental work.Greer’s radical exposure of the plight of women inWestern society is surely one of the mostinfluential books published in the second half of thetwentieth century. Although well produced andprinted in substantial enough numbers, the firstedition of this ground-breaking and liberating bookwas rapidly read to tatters and is now very difficultto find, especially in good condition withdustwrapper.[32] [EXHIBITION] LIBRARYASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA.Loan Exhibition Catalogue. Adelaide, C.E. Bristow,1900. Octavo, pp. 114 (last blank); an excellentcopy in more recent binder’s cloth. $220Very scarce: an interesting record of many highlyimportant books and manuscripts – nearly 1000items, with names of lenders, including many rareitems of Australian interest. Ferguson, 11628.

An exceptional set of first editions of all threeworks, all signed; from the collection of Dr.Norman Wettenhall, although without bookplate.The first work signed and inscribed by the author(and uncommon thus); the second limited to 500numbered and signed copies; the third limited to300 numbered and signed copies.[35] McCUAIG, Ronald.Vaudeville. Potts Point (Sydney), Privately Printedby The Author, 1938. Tall octavo (25.5 x 15.4 cms),pp. [56]; excellent in cloth, entirely uncut, as issuedwithout dustwrapper. $440Rare: the first edition of McCuaig’s first and mostimportant collection, the first significant modernistwork by an Australian poet. Privately printed bythe poet in an edition of 150 numbered and signedcopies.[33] CLARKE, Marcus.What is Religion? A Controversy between the lateMarcus Clarke and Dr. Moorhouse (Bishop ofMelbourne, 1880). Melbourne, Robert Barr,Printer, 1895. Octavo, pp. 66; first and last leaves alittle tanned from the original salmon wrappers butvery good. $330Rare. Marcus Clarke’s original essay “Civilizationwithout Delusion” was published in the VictorianReview in November 1879, with BishopMoorhouse’s response appearing in the Decemberissue. Marcus Clarke’s retort to the Bishop wasrefused publication by the Victorian Review. It wasthen printed in the Melbourne Review for January1880 but that issue was withdrawn frompublication owing to concerns about Clarke’spiece. In 1880 Clarke himself published the articlesand the present pamphlet is a new edition of them.Both editions are rare. Ferguson, 8327.[34] TYRRELL, James R.Complete Bookselling Reminiscenses, comprising:Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney [with]Postscript: Further Bookselling Reminiscences[with] David Scott Mitchell: a Reminiscence.Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1952 [and] Tyrrell’sPty Ltd, 1957 [and] Sydney, Sunnybrook Press,1936. Three works, quarto, octavo, and tall octavo;excellent copies, original cloth with dustwrapper,and original card boards with dustwrappers. $495[36] McCUAIG, Ronald.The Wanton Goldfish. Vaucluse, Sydney, TheAuthor, 1941. Sextodecimo, pp. [12], with a fullpageillustration by Victoria Cowdroy; about finein original wrappers. $285Rare: first edition: 170 copies on bond paper andsewn in wrappers. The illustrator, “VictoriaCowdroy”, who illustrated McCuaig’s versesexclusively, was very probably a pseudonymadopted by McCuaig himself.[37] McCUAIG, Ronald.Quod Ronald McCuaig. Sydney, Angus andRobertson, 1946. Octavo, pp. [viii], 66, [2], withseven full-page illustrations by Victoria Cowdroy;fine in original cloth-backed boards, with littlespine sunned but rarely seen dustwrapper. $185Presentation copy of the first edition of McCuaig’sfirst public collection. Now quite scarce, especiallywith dustwrapper. Inscribed on the front endpaperto fellow poet, Nan McDonald, signed in full anddated on publication, 4 November 1946.[38] [WHITE] MALOUF, David and RichardMEALE.Voss. Opera in Two Acts from the Novel byPatrick White. Libretto by David Malouf. Music byRichard Meale. [Sydney, Australian Music Centre,1987]. Quarto (A4), pp. [iv], 358; papered boards(original?), spine lettered in gilt. $880Only edition. Richard Meale’s Voss premiered on 1March 1986 at the Adelaide Festival, with principalartists from the Australian Opera, directed by JimSharman, and conducted by Stuart Challender. Thelibretto for the opera was written by David Malouf.The present volume – it is rare – comprises thecomposer’s score and Malouf’s libretto. Theedition was, inevitably, a limited one. Hubber andSmith, p. 272 (noted but without description).

[39] W.H. HONEY PUBLISHING Co.Youth Annual. December 1st 1930. Sydney, W.H.Honey Publishing Co., 1930. Large quarto, 26colour plates on thirteen leaves, and a leaf ofcolour-illustrated advertisements, complete withthe loosely-inserted double-page colour Supplementplate; a trace of foxing of the absorbent paperbut an excellent copy in the original wrappers withflaps. $440WITH A RUN OF A RARE MAGAZINE FORAUSTRALIAN CHILDRENThis most uncommon Depression-era annual foryoung people is accompanied here by a very goodrun of the rare related monthly magazine Youth, the“Monthly Newspaper for Boys and Girls”;comprising Volume 1 No. 1 (May 1930) to Volume1 No. 9 (January 1931), lacking Volume 1 No. 7 ofNovember 1930.Illustrated opposite.[40] ROWE, Minnie I.Gully Folk. Melbourne, Melbourne PublishingCompany, n.d. but 1919. Octavo, pp. 78 (frontendpapers count as pp. 1-4), [2] (integral backpastedown endpaper) + five coloured plates by theauthor, other illustrations; own ends, originalboards (light use) with pictorial onlay. $440Only edition and extremely scarce: the first work ofimaginative literature for children devoted to theAboriginal child.[41] MACDONALD, Alexander.The Quest of the Black Opals: A Tale ofAdventure. London and Glasgow, Blackie and Son,n.d. but circa 1930. Octavo, pp. 352 + six plates; alittle use but a very good copy in the original colourpictorial tan cloth. $275A rarely-seen author’s inscribed presentation copy:inscribed on the front endpaper with a manuscriptverse “To Dr Nichol. With the Author’sAppreciation and Thanks. Glasgow, 25/3/1930.‘Oh, well for he who finds a Friend | oor makes aFriend where’er he come; | And Knows the Worldfrom end to end – | and wanders on from Home toHome’.” A story of opal hunting at White Cliffsand on the Queensland opal fields.Feb. 1930”. The story of three friends who raise awreck in Sydney Harbour and sail to the pearlinggrounds off German New Guinea.[43] GIBBS, May.Further Adventures of Bib and Bub Sydney,Cornstalk, n.d. but 1927. Oblong quarto, pp. [104],panelled illustrations throughout; some soiling anduse, rebacked in the original illustrated cloth(extremities a bit worn). $1200First edition: rare. The second of the Bib and Bubseries, collecting May Gibbs’s contributions to theSydney Sunday News. Gibbs was one of the few‘classic’ Australian children’s authors and illustratorsto have published in this format, being quickto learn from the success of her contemporaries JimBancks and Syd Nicholls and to see the commercialpotential of her own unique Gumnut creations inthe newspaper medium.[44] O’HARRIS, Pixie (illustrator). LISTON,Maud Renner.Cinderella’s Party: A Fairy Story by Maud RennerListon. Illustrations by Pixie O. Harris. Adelaide,Rigby Limited, 1922. Quarto, pp. 32, richlyillustrated with six full-page illustrations andvignettes throughout by Pixie O’Harris; a littleedge-worn but a very good copy in the originalillustrated wrappers. $385Rare: first edition of this early illustrated work byPixie O’Harris. Included is the facsimile editionpublished by Rigby in 1982.[45] O’HARRIS, Pixie.Songs for Children… Special Musical Arrangementsby Dorothy R. Mathlin. Sydney, D. Davis &Co. Pty. Ltd., n.d. circa 1945. Quarto, pp. 24 (sheetmusic), with illustrations on the title-page andinside front cover, other decorations throughout,musical score (“p. 25”) on inside back wrapper;very good in the original colour-illustratedwrappers. $220Rare.[42] MACDONALD, Alexander.The Pearl Seekers: A Tale of the Southern Seas.London and Glasgow, Blackie and Son, n.d. butcirca 1930. Octavo, pp. xii, 364 (last blank) +seven plates; frontispiece at some time(unnecessarily) re-attached with tape, sinceremoved; very good in the original colour pictorialdark green cloth. $220A rarely-seen author’s inscribed presentation copy:inscribed on the front endpaper “To Mrs Nichol.With the Author’s Sincere Wishes. Glasgow, 21st

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