WHITE, Paul William The Art of Brian Dunlop Frenchs Forest: The Craftsman’s Press, 1984. First Edition. Oblong hardcover in matching slipcase : 144pp : Numbered and signed by Brian Dunlop at limitation page : SIGNED & NUMBERED ETCHING : number 14 of 200 copies. The title on the spine has small patches of loss. Near fine. Brian Dunlop (1938-2009) was an Australian realist painter. His work is held in every state gallery in Australia as well as the National Portrait Gallery. He won the Sulman Prize in 1980 for The Old Physics Building which is reproduced in this compilation.

LONDON, Jack. Call of the Wild. New York: Published for the Review of Reviews Company by the Macmillan Company, 1913 : bookplate of A.R. and M.M. Goodman : INSCRIBED BY JACK LONDON TO DR. GOODMAN on the recto of the f.f.e.p. Fine. Dr Goodman, a northern Californian doctor, treated Jack London after his return from Mexico in 1914. The inscription reads, "Dear Doctor Goodman, It takes than you think to make me dopey - witness my shameless confession when we next meet, Jack London, July 10, 1914."

[STEELE RUDD] DAVIS, Arthur Hoey. Original Signed Manuscript of "The Letter Under the Mirror". n.d. [c.1927]. Original autograph manuscript : 24 leaves : black ink on rectos only : 276 edits : signed "Steele Rudd" on p.24 : vertical note in another hand and initialed " W. H." at the left margin of the first leaf. Near fine. Although this manuscript is undated, a version of this story first appeared in The Brisbane Courier on Saturday 10th September 1927 under the title, "Grey-green Homestead".

POMERAND, Gabriel Antonio hors de galaxie Paris: Jacques Loyau, 1954. First Edition. Softcover : 64pp. (unpaginated) : photographic cover : silent spine : two line drawings by Cocteau : 6 tipped in photographic prints. One of 100 copies. Gabriel Pomerand (c. 1926–1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of lettrism. "Pomerand was the mouthpiece of the movement...He organized scandalous public lectures, gave reputedly remarkable performances of sound poetry, painted oils, and made an award-winning short movie. This consideration of the avant garde dancer Antonio is scarce.

DEBORD, G. E.[Guy] Rapport; sur la construction des situations et sur les conditions de l'orginisation et de l'action de la tendance situanniste internationale n.d. [1957]. First Edition. Stapled pamphlet in red cover : 20pp.(French) : slight bleed of printed ink through wraps. The foundation text of the Situationniste Internationale.

MAUGHAM, W.S. The Razor's Edge Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944. Limited Edition. Octavo : pp. [viii] 343 [3] (blank) : SIGNED : No. 308 of 750 copies : publisher's cloth over bevelled boards, black and gilt title panel to spine. Tip of pp. 145-148 creased. Near fine. Item #15546 “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” — Maugham. This limited, signed edition preceded both the American and English trade editions. A bright copy of Maugham's masterpiece of human desire, ambition and success.

Glen Ellen, California: 1908. Double space typed manuscript : ribbon copy on paper watermarked "Saxon Bond" : 13pp. : Jack London's name, address and word count (6233 words) typed at the top of first page : several pencil corrections and revisions apparently in London's hand (21 words) : the setting copy with editorial corrections, printer's marking in pencil and "Hampton's Magazine" stamped to head of each page : p. 5 cut in two between lines of text and then pinned together : a strip of brown paper (section of a wrapper?) with "Mauki by Jack London. 6,000 words" in his hand.

ALVAREZ, A. ; Blackman, Charles Apparition St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover 36 x 26cm : pp. [9] 50 [52] : 7 full page full colour tipped in plates : warm yellow e.p.s : polished calf with gilt line drawing after Blackman : scarce glassine wrapper with spiderweb pattern : slipcase : SIGNED by Blackman and Alvarez at the limitation page. The de luxe edition with manuscript copies of the poems and seven full colour plates after the gouache paintings of Blackman. The cobweb patterned wrapper is littered with flies and one very plump spider.

New York: Macmillan, 1905. First Edition, second printing. [PRESENTATION copy, INSCRIBED to one of the book's illustrators] Octavo : pp. [14] 15-182 [6] (publisher's advertisements) : illustrated by Henry Hutt and decorated by T.C. Lawrence : t.e.g. : green publisher's cloth lettered in red with vignette of shrouded Death snipping a thread : image repeated on scarce pictorial dust jacket in blue against orange and white background, lettering also in blue : inscribed by the author at the half title to "Henry Hutt, with grateful appreciation and hearty best wishes, Jack London, Glen Ellen...".

Edward (or Ned) Cyril Bowden-Smith, nephew by a younger brother to Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, the Commander in Chief of the Australia Station (1892-94), made a trip from the UK to Adelaide in 1896-7 on the Clipper Torrens, returning on the Royal Mail Ship Oroya. The Torrens is notable as the last sailing ship on which Joseph Conrad served before he began his writing career. Bowden-Smith’s trip formed the basis of his short book Land Ho! The Last of Her Race which was published in 1931.