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Human Drift
by Mann, Leonard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1935
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$243.98
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Octavo, pale foxing on endpapers and preliminaries, very good in original green cloth (sunned on spine).
First edition. Signed by the author for the novelist Marjorie Barnard.
While the novel was published by A. & R., Mann offered the manuscript first to the short-lived Endeavour Press (1933-35).
Out of print and decidedly scarce. Item Price
NZ$243.98
The Sow's Ear
by Cronin, Bernard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1933
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$83.18
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Octavo, original plum cloth (bit faded on spine).
First edition ‒ cloth issue. Inscribed & signed by the author. Scarce. Item Price
NZ$83.18
The Actors
by Porter, Hal
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1968
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$83.18
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Octavo, pen drawings by Porter, light blue endpapers, original black cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, the cartoonist Les Tanner's copy with his signature.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by Porter for Tanner: 'Les — I loveya. HP.' Item Price
NZ$83.18
The Hexagon
by Porter, Hal
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1956
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$365.97
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Demy octavo, original oatmeal cloth with crisp colour silk-screen printed dustwrapper, John Gawsworth's copy with his 'Realm of Redonda' bookplate.
First edition. An excellent association copy of Porter's first volume of poetry, inscribed by Porter in the Surrey Hotel (London) for the poet John Gawsworth. Porter writes about drinking at the Surrey and Gawsworth in his third volume of autobiography The… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$365.97
How Beautiful Are Thy Feet
by Marshall, Alan
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1950
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$61.00
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Octavo, very good in bright original royal blue cloth.
January 1950 reprint (first published in December 1949). Novel set in a boot factory in Collingwood during the Depression.
Inscribed and signed by Marshall. Scarce. Item Price
NZ$61.00
The Uncertain Trout
by Wigram, R.H.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1951
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$443.60
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Quarto, illustrations, minor offsetting on endpapers, original oatmeal cloth with an unusually crisp example of the pictorial dustwrapper.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Item Price
NZ$443.60
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Trout Fishing in New South Wales
by Hedge, John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Published
- 1962
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
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NZ$554.50
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Octavo, illustrations, limitation statement completed in manuscript by the author on title-page, original green cloth with exceptionally bright pictorial dustwrapper (with loosely inserted 1961 N.S.W. Rod Fishers' Society circular, at which time Hedge was its secretary).
First edition ‒ issue limited to 500 copies (but fewer than this were actually numbered and signed by Hedge), distributed first to members of the… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$554.50
My Hobby is Trout Fishing
by Wackett, L.J.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1946
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$1,386.25
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Octavo, frontispiece, uncommonly good in original burgundy cloth decorated and lettered in gilt.
First edition. Inscribed & signed by the author.
Wackett states that only 500 copies were printed and now very scarce. Item Price
NZ$1,386.25