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Serving readers, collectors and institutions since 1984. Located on the ground floor of John Mills Himself, a heritage-listed building in the heart of the Brisbane CBD, Archives Fine Books is one of the largest second-hand and collectible bookstores in Australia.

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Highlights

From Ingleton's collection with his bookplate.
$550
J.W.N.B. [Bull, John William Newell] Sea Noises. By J.W.N.B. and Choir Printed by C.P.O. H. L. Boyd in H.M.A.S. Canberra in Australian Waters, 1933. First Edition. From Ingleton's collection with his bookplate. Numbered and limited edition of 240 copies. [Miller/Macartney, p.252; Ingleton 2091]."This volume was illustrated and produced by Lieut. G. C. Ingleton and was printed by C.P.O. H. L. Boyd in HMAS Canberra in Australian Waters." (colophon).
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The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
$10850
PHILLIP, Arthur The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island... London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789. First Edition. First state engraved title, stipple-engraved portrait of Phillip by W. Sherwin after F. Wheatly, and 53 further plates, plans and charts (7 folding; 55 plates in total), errata and advertisement leaves, list of subscribers : armorial bookplate (George Henry Cherry, Denford) to pastedown : contemporary calf, spine gilt.
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From California
$660
GIOIA, Dana (poems); WAGENER, Richard (engravings) From California San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2024. First Edition. Nine boxwood engravings : letterpress on mold made paper : silk spine over paper covered boards with paper label to spine : matching silk covered slip case : signed by the poet and the engraver. From California is the 243rd publication of then Book Club of California. This the standard edition of which 225 copies were made.
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Five Sydney Women
$50
[Victor Mace Fine Art Galler] Five Sydney Women - Jean Appleton, Enid Cambridge, Alison Rehfisch, Grace Cossington Smith, Dorothy Thornhill; 30 July-19 August, 1978. Bowen Hills: Victor Mace. Stapled cream card catalogue : 8pp. : invitation to a private viewing loosely inserted. Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery was established in 1975 by Victor Mace who studied antiques with Beatrice Potter, and was assistant director of Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, from 1969-1972. It has special interests in works of Australian traditional and contemporary painters, sculptors, potters and craftworkers.
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The Idyll Wheel
$500
MURRAY, Les A The Idyll Wheel Canberra: Officina Brindabella, 1989. First Edition. 7 wood engravings by Rosalind Atkins : number 72 of 290 copies : SIGNED by author : quarter leather with paper sides over boards. Signed handwritten note from Alec Bolton (printer) inserted. Bolton recalls, ''This too was a very popular book, which sold out quickly. I imported a lovely German German mould-made paper, Zerkall, which went well with the blady-grass endpapers that Katherine Nix made. When it was new the paper smelt of the bush, which many people commented on."
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The Silver Chair; A Story For Children
$6250
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo : pp. [10] 11-217 [3, blank] : map endpapers : illustrations by Pauline Baynes : original blue cloth with lettering in silver to spine : illustrated dust wrapper. Barely perceptible foxing to edges of block; offsetting to endpapers; unclipped wrapper is chipped with both open closed tears.[Hooper 25]. Very good / good. Item #15971 First edition, first impression of The Silver Chair, the fourth book in the Chronicles of Narnia. Uncommon.
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