Te Tohunga, the Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris, Orally Collected and Pictured by W. Dittmer, London, George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1907. Facsimile edition 1970. Includes 28 fullpage Art Nouveau illustrations by Dittmer, plus numerous other smaller ones set within the text. Padded cloth cover, sunned. Decorative gilt lettering on spine.
Hardback, 119 pages. SECONDHAND
Flush A Biography, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1933, 1st edition. Previous owner's signed art deco-style Book Society bookplate and review clipping pasted on front endpapers. Sunned covers, darkened spine. Hardback, 163 pages. SECONDHAND
When the Green Woods Laugh, London, Michael Joseph, 1960. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper, some foxing. Signed by the Author. Hardback with dust-jacket, 158 pages. SECONDHAND
Tom Sawyer, Detective As Told by Huck Finn. London, Chatto & Windus, 1897, 1st edition. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper, some foxing, top of spine bumped. Also includes 32 pages of books published by Chatto & Windus, dated Nov 1896. Hardback, portrait, 246 pages. SECONDHAND
Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, with 16 colour plates by Alice Woodward and black and white photographs. Fine decorative hardcover, text foxed, worn dust-jacket and endpapers. Harrap, London, Bombay, Sydney, George Harrap & Co Ltd, 1930. 1st edition.Hardback, illustrated, 356 pages. SECONDHAND
Landscape Scenery Illustrating Sydney and Port Jackson, Paramatta, Richmond, Newcastle, Windsor, New South Wales. Published by John Sands, Sydney and Sands & McDougall, Melbourne, c.1862 Title page with coat of arms followed by 19 plates of engravings of early colonial Sydney and surrounding districts. Gilt lettering on front cover, spine and page edges. Some foxing and tissue paper between engravings browned. Dedication written in copperplate writing on front endpaper “Lily D. Lightfoot from Mother”. Hardback, 20 pages. SECONDHAND
Alice Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman, an artist better known for his satirical drawings for Private Eye. 1st edition, London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1972.
Hardback with worn dust-jacket, 32 cm, 144 pages. SECONDHAND