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Catalogue of signed or inscribed books

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206536 Alexander, Stephanie A Cook's Life - signed Lantern/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic., 2012. Octavo; hardcover, with decorative boards and upper board titles; 362pp., with 32pp. of full-colour and monochrome plates. Mild wear; board edges lightly scraped; text block edges lightly toned and spotted with small stain to lower corner; inked inscription by the author to the title page. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $30

212054 Bingham, Howard L. (Introductions by Muhammad & Lonnie Ali, Henry Cooper, Bill & Camille Cosby, Reg Gutteridge, Harry Carpenter, Jim Murray, Jarvis Astaire, Gordon Parks, George Plimpton, Budd Schulberg & Nelson Mandela) Muhammad Ali - signed A Thirty-Year Journey Robson Books Ltd., London, 1993. Quarto; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; unpaginated (192pp.), with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; a heavy bump to the upper board; light spotting to the text block edges; mild offset to the endpapers; bookplate signed by the subject and author tipped-in to the half-title page. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; a heavy bump to the upper panel (transferring through to the upper board); now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $375

74271 Chang, Jung, with Jon Halliday Mao - signed by the authors The Unknown Story Jonathan Cape/Random House, London, 2005. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 814pp., with 32pp. of monochrome photographic plates. Minor wear; signed, with a dedication, in ink on the title page. Dustwrapper is sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Signed by the authors. Banned in China upon its release, this is an uncompromising biography of the Great Leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution which re-evaluates his accomplishments without the dogmatic spectacles of the Red Guard worldview. Chang has been criticised for being overly critical of Mao (given her family's history as outlined in "Wild Swans") but her observations are not without their basis in fact as discovered in documents heretofore unpublished in the West. For those interested in the man without the party line. Click here to order $45

206799 Charlton, Eddie (Foreword by Les Wheeler) The Complete Book of Snooker - signed incorporating Winning Snooker and Trick Shots The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., Crow's Nest NSW, 1987. Quarto; hardcover, illustrated boards; 191pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Moderate wear; somewhat rolled; spine extremities softened and spine lightly sunned; corners lightly bumped; text block edges toned; a small pen mark to the flyleaf; signed in ink with dedications by Eddie Charlton and 13 other well-known players and referees to the verso of the flyleaf and the half-title page. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $120

206792 Charlwood, Don Settlers Under Sail - signed Burgewood Books, Warrandyte Vic., 1999. Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; 49pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers slightly scuffed and edgeworn; signed in ink by the author to the first page. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $20

201404 Collis, Ian, & Alan Whiticker The History of Rugby League Clubs - signed limited edition New Holland Publishers, Sydney NSW, 2004. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt upper board and spine titling; 399pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Slipcase with slightly frayed corners. Fine. Signed by the Fox Sports Team: Wally Lewis; Laurie Daley; Gary Freeman; Wayne Pearce and Greg Alexander; this is no. 278 of 500 issued. Click here to order $300

97585 Dalrymple, William The Last Mughal - signed by the author The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2006. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling and decorative endpapers; 580pp., with maps and 24pp. of monochrome and full-colour plates. Moderate wear; shaken; spine extremities lightly softened; text block edges lightly toned with heavy spotting; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries; signed in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $35

90749 Dalton, Robin Aunts Up the Cross - signed copy Foreword by Ben Travers Macmillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., South Melbourne Vic., 1980. Octavo; hardcover; 104pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; signed in ink on the flyleaf. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and sunned along the spine panel. Very good to near fine. Evoking Sydney of the 1930s, Paddington, King's Cross and the Bayswater Road. With a foreword by Ben Travers. Click here to order $25

211255 Fulton, Margaret I Sang for My Supper: signed copy Memoirs of a Food Writer Lansdowne, Sydney, 1999. Hardcover, octavo; yellow boards with pale yellow spine and gilt titling; 288pp., monochrome illustrations. Signed in ink by the author. Minor wear; very slightly rolled; mildly rubbed and faded board edges; toned text block and page edges. Illustrated dustwrapper, faded spine and adjacent; mild edge and corner wear. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $32

200178 Goodall, Jane (Hugo Van Lawick, illus.; Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould) In the Shadow of Man - signed Phoenix, London, 1997. Signed paperback, octavo; 297pp., monochrome plates. Owner's name. A few marks and spots to cover verso and early pages; toned and spotted text block edges; creased spine; wear to cover edges. Very good. Click here to order $40

203956 Hall, Lincoln Blood on the Lotus - signed Simon & Schuster, Brookvale, 1990. Octavo hardcover; blue boards with white upper board and spine titling; 316pp. Inscribed in ink to the owner by the author. Wear and scraping to board edges and corners; one or two spots on endpaper edges; browned and spotted text block and page edges. Illustrated blue dustwrapper sunned along the spine panel with wear to edges and corners. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. This is a novel about the involvement of an American mountaineer, a CIA agent and a Tibetan Buddhist monk in the struggle to free Tibet from Chinese oppression in the early '70s. The author is himself a noted mountaineer who has written several books on the subject. Click here to order $35

212619 Idriess, Ion L. Gold-Dust and Ashes - signed The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields Angus & Robertson, Sydney NSW, 1933. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles and decoration and front endpaper maps; 286pp., (+ 26pp. of adverts) with a monochrome frontispiece and 16pp. of plates likewise. Moderate wear; rolled; boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn and spine sunned; text block edges toned with light spotting and top edge dusted; mild offset to the preliminaries; retailer's bookplate to the flyleaf; inscribed by the author in ink to the title page. Reproduction eighth edition dustwrapper; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $450

216657 Keneally, Thomas Australians: Eureka to the Diggers: signed copy Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2011. Royal octavo hardcover; green boards with gilt spine titling, green endpapers; 449pp., colour, and monochrome plates. Inscribed in pen to the owner. Dustwrapper spine panel sunned; otherwise minor wear. Near fine Click here to order $45

206404 Kingsley Norris, F. No Memory for Pain - signed An Autobiography William Heinemann (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic., 1970. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 392pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece, maps and 16pp. of monochrome plates. Moderate wear; rolled spine extremities softened; text block edges toned with some spots; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf; signed by the author in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper is mildly rubbed and edgeworn; light moisture damage and lacquer lifting to the spine panel heel; some chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good. Click here to order $25

212051 Milligan, Spike The Lost Goon Shows - signed "Operation Christmas Duff"; "The Internal Mountain"; "The Silent Bugler"; "The Dreaded Piano Clubber"; "The Siege of Fort Knight"; & "The Tree Maniac" Robson Books Ltd., London, 1987. Octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 160pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; boards a little rubbed with some bumps and spine extremities softened; signed by the author in ink to the title page (with minor offset). No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $85

63465 Oxenbould, Moffatt Joan Sutherland - signed limited edition A Tribute Art Gallery of New South Wales & Honeysett Publications, Leichhardt NSW, 1990. Second impression: quarto; hardcover, full-leather, with gilt spine and upper board titling and colour image tipped onto the upper board; 128pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; signed in ink by Joan Sutherland on the title page; light scattered spotting to the title page. Near fine in a folding leather case with some minor wear. No. 340 of 500 copies. Click here to order $120

209629 Parkin, Ray The Sword and the Blossom: signed Hogarth Press, London, 1968. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; blue boards with gilt spine titling; 266pp., b&w illustrations. Inscribed in ink to owner. Mild offsetting to endpapers; toned and faintly spotted text block edges. black illustrated dustwrapper with laminate slightly lifted on spine panel edge of front; mild edgewear. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Third book in the trilogy preceded by Out of the Smoke and Into the Smother. Click here to order $75

99256 Tyquin, Michael Little by Little - signed A Centenary of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps Australian Military History Publications/Australian Army History Unit (Dept. of Defence), Canberra ACT, 2003. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 684pp., with maps and many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; slightly shaken; corners mildly bumped; light spotting to the text block top edge; signed in ink on the title page. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Signed by Governor-General General Sir Peter Cosgrove, Michael Tyquin and Major General John Pearn. Click here to order $75

85045 Whitlam, Margaret My Other World - signed by the author Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2001 Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 221pp., with many monochrome illustrations and 8pp. of full-colour plates. Mild wear; text block and page edges yellowed; small tear to upper left corner of edgeworn dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Very good. Signed with a dedication by the author in ink on the title page. Click here to order $35

79985 Woods, Donald Asking for Trouble - signed by the author The autobiography of a banned journalist Penguin Books Ltd., London, 1987. Octavo; paperback; 373pp., with 8pp., of monochrome photographic plates. Text block and page edges toned; signed in ink on the first page. Very good. Click here to order $20