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].

Sydney, 1938. Folding brochure with fabulous Harry Weston cover art & characteristic large pictorial map (40 x 70cm) of Sydney Harbour. New South Wales Government Tourist Bureau brochure.

Two pages ink manuscript in French, with conjugate blank, folded, a short split sealed. Signed in full, 16 July 1860. One of the few surviving Berlioz letters dealing with the 1860 season in Baden-Baden. Written to Joanna Pohl, wife of the writer & journalist Richard Pohl, Berlioz's translator. Berlioz advises that she refrain from asking Liszt to the concert, as the pieces are already known to him and there will not be anything to engage his interest. Nothing of The Trojans will be performed this summer, it would have been rather out of place. Correspondance Général (vol. vi, 1995), CG 2509.

First edition, first issue, two volumes, octavo, London, 1726. One of the most famous works in English literature, Swift's Travels was published three hundred years ago this year. A stunningly satirical fable, it met with instant success, with three editions appearing between October and December 1726, and over a hundred published by 1800.