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The Earthly Paradise. A Poem
by MORRIS, William
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- 1871
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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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London: F.S. Ellis, 1871. Night passed, day dawned, and we grew full of mirth
As with the ever-rising wind
Still farther lay our threatened death behind,
Or so we thought : some eighty men we were,
Of whom but fifty knew the shipman's gear,
The rest were uplanders ; midst such of these
As knew not of our quest,… Read more about this item Item Price
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In Tyrrell's Bookshop
by Slessor, Kenneth
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- First Edition
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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, no date. First Edition. Poem published by Australian poet and journalist, Kenneth Slessor (1901 -1971) in veneration of James Tyrell's wonderful old bookshop.
"Broadsheets there are, of horrid hangman's tales;
Yellow-stained maps from some forgotten book;
Journals of convict years in New South Wales,
And Captain Cook." [K.S.]. Single folded sheet, 250 mm x 153… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Land of Romance. The Border, Its History and Legend
by LANG, Jean
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- 1920
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London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1920. First Edition. SCOTT, Tom.. This history of the Scottish border from Roman to recent times. A lovely example of the skilful printing and generous book design that characterise the works of the publishers T.C. & E.C. Jack. With six illustration plates in photogravure from paintings by Tom Scott, RSA. Small quarto, six photogravure… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus
by MURRAY, Gilbert
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- 1911
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. First Edition. Florence Kate Kingsford Cockerell. First edition: an Egyptian fragment translated by Gilbert Murray.
The classicist explains in his preface that "the origin of this tale is in Demotic Egyptian, in prose, on a fragmentary papyrus dated ‘the first month of winter, in the fifteenth year' of some king unnamed. Palaeographical evidence suggests some… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Pierrot of the Minute
by DOWSON, Ernest
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- Limited Edition
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- 1932
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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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San Francisco: Printed by Cecil and James Johnson at the Windsor Press, 1932. Limited Edition. ANGELO, Valenti. With a delicate decorated frontispiece by Valenti Angelo. Edition of 150 copies. Slim octavo, original papered boards, old bookseller's stamp on front endpaper, a near-fine copy of an elegant production. Item Price
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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
by KINGSLEY, Charles
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- 1912
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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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London: Published by Philip Lee Warner at the Ricardi Press for the Medici Society, 1912. A deluxe and desirable edition of this treasury of Greek myths for younger readers, illustrated with stunning mounted plates by Russell Flint. A humble masterpiece of typographic taste and discretion. Numbered limited edition of 500 copies. Quarto, green cloth with paper labels, top-edge gilt… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Plays of Euripides. In Two Volumes
by [MURRAY, Gilbert] EURIPIDES
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- 1931
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Gregynog Press, 1931. Translated into rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray... with wood-engravings from the Greek vase paintings by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray. This magnificent and generously printed edition of Euripides is a testament to the composition, typography and production standards of the Greygnog Press. Numbered limited edition of 500 copies. Two volumes, folio, original russet cloth… Read more about this item Item Price
A$650.00