
JOHNSON, B.S.
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
London: Collins, 1973
8vo, pp. 180. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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[POWELL, Michael] GIBBON, Monk
The Tales Of Hoffmann
London: Saturn Press, 1951
4to, pp. 96. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Cockerel device in gilt to front panel.
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[GIELGUD, Sir John]
War And Remembrance: Gielgud's Working Script
N.p. 1985 [The show was eventually transmitted in 1988-9].
Large 8vo, pp. 10, printed on rectos only, bound between yellow wrappers with a split pin.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
French Leave
London: Heinemann, 1928
8vo, pp. 287. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Mount Music
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1919
8vo, pp. 309. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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GROOM, Jon
Man And The Sea Shell
Munich: Edition X, 1994
Folio. Original brown boards, lettered in grey on spine. Double-thick pages, unopened but with blank inners.
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[ed. HUGHES, Ted] PLATH, Sylvia
Collected Poems
London: Faber, 1981
8vo, pp. 351. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, photographic portrait of Plath to front panel.
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KITCHIN, C.H.B.
The Secret River
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956
8vo, pp. 359. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
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SUTHERLAND, Joan
ALS To Leo McKern
Montreux: N.p., 1993
2pp. ALS on headed notepaper ('Joan Sutherland' over a floral design, light red on cream). Original envelope present, address handwritten, postmarked 23.11.93. Colour photograph of Sutherland and McKern on location for On Our Selection in Braidwood, Australia, taken the following year.
2pp. ALS FROM JOAN SUTHERLAND TO LEO MCKERN, FONDLY REMEMBERING THEIR RECENT MEETING AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING TOGETHER ON DAD AND DAVE: ON OUR SELECTION.
In 1994, four years after her retirement from the operatic stage, Dame Joan Sutherland returned to her native Australia to make what would turn out to be her only dramatic film: Dad and Dave:On Our Selection, written and directed by George Whaley. Based on the writings of Steele Rudd, the film, set in Queensland at the end of the nineteenth century, starred Geoffrey Rush, Ray Barrett, Noah Taylor -- and Leo McKern as Dad Rudd. Joan Sutherland played Mother Rudd, with not entirely satisfactory results, and the film, made to mark the centenary of the Australian film industry, was a failure with both critics and paying audiences.
This letter dates from the early days of Sutherland and McKern's association, is written on Sutherland's personalised notepaper and sent from her home in the Swiss village of Les Avants, and looks forward, albeit nervously, to the forthcoming shoot:
'[I]f nothing else convinced me to become involved in the film your honest, down-to-earthness did. I hope, if it all gets sorted out that I shan't be too much out of my depth!'
Accompanying the letter is a photograph, taken on location the following year, of a laughing Sutherland and McKern in costume.
[ed. CARTER, Graydon]
Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire:
New York: Rodale, 2009
Large 8vo, pp. 215. Original blue boards, lettered in blind on spine.
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SOMERVILLE, Boyle Townshend
Commodore Anson's World Voyage
London: Heinemann, 1934
8vo, pp. 317. Original boards. Portions of illustrated dustwrapper pasted in to preliminaries. Maps at endpapers. Plain brown homemade dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
STEINBERG, Saul
All In Line
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945
4to, unpaginated. Original tan cloth boards, lettered and illustrated in brown to front panel.
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[COGHILL, Nevill] SCAIFE, C.H.O.
A Collection of Books by C.H.O. Scaife, from the Library of Nevill Coghill
V.p.: V.p., V.d.
C.[hristopher] H.[enry] O.[ldham] Scaife [1900-1988] was a contemporary of Coghill's at Oxford, and remained a lifelong friend. Professor of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"collected" works is now occupying me, and I find it inexplicable that he should suddenly have written work of such power after so many slighter things. And as he is alive still and blind, it is very hard to avoid an obituary note! He is a year younger than me.'
vi) More Poems for the Speaking Voice [Florence: N.p., 1983]. First edition, no. 118 of 250 copies signed by the author. No other inscriptions.
GUDAITIS, Anthony
A Young Man About To Commit Suicide
New York: William Faro, 1932
8vo, pp. 224. Original hessian boards, spine label lettered in red. Paper on rear pastedown a little split at spine.
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PROULX, E. Annie
The Shipping News
New York: Scribner's, 1993
8vo, pp. 364. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine.
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JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems Two
London: Trigram Press, 1972
Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.
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GREENE, Graham
1 pp. TLS to David Gothard, co-founder of the Riverside Studios, London
18th August 1988.
1 pp. TLS, 200 x 150 mm, on Greene's headed notepaper bearing his Antibes address. Original envelope not present.
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STEWART, Douglas
Ned Kelly
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1956
8vo, pp. 80. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine and Ned Kelly illustration to front panel. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MILLIGAN, Spike
A Book of Bits, or A Bit of a Book
London: Dennis Dobson, 1965
8vo, pp. 89. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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NEVILLE, Richard
Hippie Hippie Shake
London: Bloomsbury, 1995
8vo, pp. 376. Original purple boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers and dustwrapper.
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