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Fine copy of a great novelist's autobiography.Slight shelf-wear to edges. Slight stripe of toning down the left hand edge of front jacket.

Pink Eldorado by F. Springer (Carel Jan Schneider)Em Querido's Uitgeverij BV, AmsterdamQuerido English Travel Edition 1990-2005Softcover, perfect bound, 55 pages.Extremely hand to find.

Where The Wild Things Are Story and Pictures by Maurice Sendak Caldecott Medal Winner.
HarperCollins Publishers, New York 1962, 25th Anniversary Edition 1991. ISBN: 9780060254926.
Signed on the title page by Maurice Sendak.
The 25th Anniversary Edition of one of the best contemporary children's books, with marvellous full-colour illustrations and story by the great Maurice Sendak. Condition: Very good, signed and illustrated. There is some edge wear to the jacket, price clipped, now plastic protected.

McClelland & Stewart, 2012 Signed by author and subject on the title page. 1st edition of the definitive biography of Leonard Cohen. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. New unread condition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The definitive biography of one of the most enigmatic, beloved, and celebrated artists of our time.

Martin Sixsmith An Unquiet Heart First UK Edition, 2nd printing 2019 A novel of the Russian Revolution and poet Sergei YeseninSigned by the author.Condition:Very good condition, clean unread copy. Rear bottom corner has a slight bump.About:1917. Russia is dying amid war, revolution and terror. The birth pains of the new world are a foretaste of the cruellest century. At their heart is Sergei Yesenin, 22, a poet, lover, wounded veteran, beautiful and afraid. Damaged by childhood abandonment, Sergei fears the world, drinks, brawls and womanises. He battles life's hurt with the charm of poetry and the drug of fame. But love is the validation he seeks. His search for meaning in dark times will lead him to passionate affairs with women and with men, until he discovers the one person who might change his life. Zinaida Raikh, exquisitely lovely, sensitive and gifted, offers Sergei the redemption he craves. But love is the devil, and the devil is fickle.This is the extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man.… Read More

Yale University Press, 2016 New unread copy.

Dymock's Book Arcade, Australian crime fiction,, 1951 (Author of "Crockett's Lane") "An ABC Weekly Competition Prize Winner!" Dymock's Book Arcade, Sydney-London, 1951. 1st Edition Hardcover with jacket. 224p. Cover by John Andrews. EXCEEDINGLY RARE Mid-century Australian crime fiction novel, with original unclipped jacket. "Christy Briscoe was a stranger in Blackthorn, but two women one of whom he secretly married changed his life there." (See picture of front flap for full synopsis.) Condition: Clean and tight, edge-browning to pages, name neatly written in front, slightest separation top of front interior hinge, jacket has edge chipping but majority intact, now plastic protected.

Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire: The Last of the Mitford Sisters, Auction L16318, London, Sotheby's, March 2, 2016London: Sotheby's. Very Good. 2016. Softcover. 469 items described. Auction catalogue of property from the Old Vicarage, Edensor and Chatsworth belonging to the youngest of the six marvellous Mitford sisters. Many colour photos. Items include jewels, books, porcelain, paintings, furniture, silver, and other items. This Catalogue is rare as hen's teeth.Description: Extremely scarce Sotheby's catalogue L16318. Very good condition. Collector's item. Iconic personal collection of Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, nee Deborah Mitford.Condition: New.Clean and tight, merest shelf-wear.

The Garden of Delights by A. M. SpyrouMonogene, Pyrmont, New South Wales: 2000. ISBN: 095872492xExtent: 71p.Description: illus. with Hieronymous Bosch reproductionsFine condition jacket edges slightly scuffed.

Travels with Charley. In Search of America, etc by John SteinbeckPan (Pan Books. no. M110.) 1965.Appears in new unread condition, toned and browned evenly overall. Name neatly written in the front. 8' Australian price on back."In 1960, Steinbeck bought a pickup truck and had it modified with a custom-built camper top – which was rare at the time – and drove across the United States with his faithful 'blue' standard poodle, Charley. Steinbeck nicknamed his truck Rocinante after Don Quixote's "noble steed". In this sometimes comical, sometimes melancholic book, Steinbeck describes what he sees from Maine to Montana to California, and from there to Texas and Louisiana and back to his home on Long Island. The restored camper truck is on exhibit in the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas."

Melbourne University Publishing, 2010. Condition: New. book. Excessively rare Australian graffiti art book. Melbourne graffiti art and culture. Condition: Unread, light rubbing to pictorial covers.

Melbourne University Publishing, 2010. Condition: New. book. Excessively rare Australian graffiti art book. Melbourne graffiti art and culture. Condition: Unread, rubbing and a few slight scratches to pictorial covers.

Australian Opera Auditions Committee N.S.W., 1990 Rare Menu Signed by Dame Joan Sutherland Australian Opera Auditions Committee N.S.W. A Tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland A.C. D.B.E. Presented by The Hon Justice Michael Kirby C.M.G. Tue 7th August 1990. Sydney Airport Hilton A4 sized sheet of superior wove/laid paper. Creased for being crushed whilst rolled-up.