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The Berkelouw family has been trading in books for six generations. Books are our passion as well as our business and it is always a pleasure to meet customers who share our love of books. Our Rare and Antiquarian Book Department, which houses over 40,000 items, is located on 'Bendooley Estate', a property just north of Berrima in the beautiful Southern Highlands of NSW. The books, pamphlets and journals cover an extraordinary range of topics and periods forming a collection that will interest most book collectors.

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Highlights
The Worm and the Ring by Anthony Burgess
$2750
London: Heinemann, 1961. Original maroon cloth. Unclipped dustjacket with illustration by John Rowland. First edition in excellent condition. Structured after Wagner's opera Ring Cycle, this story of a teacher in an unhappy marriage and a young girl's stolen diary containing depictions of erotic fantasies was pulled from the market shortly after its publication because of a libel lawsuit.
Seen in the Hadhramaut by Freya Stark
$550
London: John Murray, 1938. Small quarto. Original oatmeal coloured cloth with green text. Illustrated dustjacket (spine lightly faded and edges lightly chipped). Title-page printed in red/black. Full-page map printed in green coloured paper and photographic plates. First edition. A fine copy. Freya Stark was a women ahead of her time who travelled through the Middle East and Afghanistan many times. She was the first European women to explore Luristan, a remote part of Iran.
I Me Mine by George Harrison
$5500
Guildford: Genesis Publication, 1980. Royal octavo. Original half calf (by Zaehnsdorf, London) with gilt onlay on front cover. Spine gilt with raised bands and contrasting morocco title-label. Edges gilt. In slip-case with label on front cover. 2 tipped-in colour portraits, numerous plates one of which is folding, numerous facsimile examples of Harrison's hand-writing and illustrated endpapers. Limited edition of 2000 copies, signed by "George Harrison". Fine and extremely scarce. The lyrics and life of George Harrison, the lead guitarist of one of the most influential bands of all times.
Verve: An Artistic and Literary Quarterly. Edited by E. Teriade.
$950
Paris: Verve, 1937. Folio. Original illustrated colour boards. Contains 4 original lithographs by Leger, Miro, Rattner and Bores, plus illustrations by Brassai, Man Ray, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Picasso, Matisse. Cover by Henry Matisse. Housed in repaired original decorated cardboard box. A fine copy of the first Volumes of this important artistic journal. Established in 1937, Verve focused on bringing the ideas and techniques of French modern art to a new generation of painters and intellectuals.