Sydney, Art in Australia, 1930. Quarto, 96pp., illustrations, advertisements, original pictorial wrappers. Fabulous period design including cover art by Adrian Feint, and Deco typography.

Sydney, Frank C. Johnson, 1933. Quarto, 48pp. on laid paper, illustrations, neat modern inscription on half-title page, bright original coloured pictorial wrappers. First edition. Very scarce and ephemeral Frank Johnson publication in uncommonly good condition. Wills & Wep's Sydney of the early 1930s, flappers, six-o'clock closing, and the Harbour Bridge &c. Pidgeon's striking illustrations include his useful drinking map of Sydney 'With Wep Where it's Wet'.

New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. Octavo, bookseller's label tipped-in on rear paste-down, near fine in bright original black boards with paper labels on spine & upper board, fore and bottom edges uncut with striking silver paper Deco dustwrapper. First US edition of the author's first book with an exceptional example of the impractical silver paper dustwrapper. Stead's subsequent two books, Seven Poor Men of Sydney and The Beauties and Furies, were issued in the US by D. Appleton-Century Company, uniformly bound with similar Deco red, black & silver Deco dustwrappers [by Neely].