General Literature from Tapsell's Books and Music

Sydney: The Shepherd Press, 1947. With 46 illustrations by Norman Lindsay, including two tipped-in. Black cloth with gilt titling, rules and publisher's motif on the spine. The dustwrapper is chipped. Scarce, especially with such a good dustwrapper.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

London: Methuen, 1939. xi, 267 pages. B/w portrait frontispiece. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine.. 3rd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Sydney: Bantam, 2018. 373 pages. Pictorial card wrappers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

London: Alston Rivers, 1927. 285 pages. One b/w map. Original papered boards, decorated and ruled. No dustwrapper. Edges slightly spotted. Rare. *A novel set in China.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Heinemann, 2007. 212 pages. Several b/w photos. Very slight spotting on fore-edge.. 1st U.K. edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

London: Coker and Co, 1949. 251 pages. Offsetting (tanning) on endpapers. The price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly worn and chipped.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1955. 160 pages. Slight offsetting (tanning) on endpapers. The dustwrapper is lightly worn at extremities.. 1st U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1935. ix, 182 pages. Colour frontispiece, 8 b/w plates and many b/w line drawings by E. Caldwell. Note and glossary. Original decorated fawn cloth (slight wear at extremities) with titling on spine and upper board. Gift inscription on an early blank page; previous owner's initials on verso of rear endpaper. A crisp, bright and very… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1934. 328 pages. The price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly worn and chipped and has a closed tear. Edges a little spotted. Scarce. *The copyright page states that this is the seventh printing, yet the dustwrapper states sixth printing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Nelson and Sons, 1888. 166 pages. Many b/w illustrations by Harrison Weir. Original gilt pictorial cloth with titling on upper board and spine. Boards worn and corners bumped. Lacks half-title page. Scarce.. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Neville Spearman, 1959. 298 pages. Very slight offsetting on front free endpaper. The dustwrapper is price clipped. *A very bright, crisp copy of the author's scarce first novel, which is about life in a small-town community.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Michael Joseph, 1965. 187 pages. Slight spotting to edges. Minor wear to dustwrapper.. 1st U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1935. 282 pages. Original cloth with turquoise titling on upper board and spine. Very slight wear at extremities. No dustwrapper. Scarce.. 1st U.K. edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. 272 pages. Original green cloth with gilt titling and rules on the spine. Edges slightly spotted. No dustwrapper. Previous owner's bookplate on fly leaf. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. 239 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt titling and rules on the spine. Fore-edge slightly spotted. No dustwrapper. Previous owner's bookplate on fly leaf. *Includes One Day (1929), Nerinda (1901), and On the Herpetology of the Grand Duchy of Baden (1891).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Sydney: John Fairfax and Sons, 1907. 19cm x 25cm. 255 pages. Original pictorial cloth with red titling on the spine and upper board. Minor pale foxing on several pages. Minor wear at head and tail of spine. Scarce. Contributors include Bert Mudge, Albert Dorrington, E.J. Braithwaite, Mary Leith, E.C. Morrice and many others.. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1958. 223 pages. Pale spotting on edges and endpapers. The attractive dustwrapper is price clipped. *A novel, set in Northern Australia, about the murder of an Aborigine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. 258 pages. Original orange cloth (slightly mottled) with gold paper titling labels on the spine and upper board. Endpapers tanned near the hinges. No dustwrapper.. 1st U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1920. xii, 280 pages. Frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 33 other b/w illustrations by Somerville. Original blue cloth with titling on the spine and upper board. Blue cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine; two puncture marks near the top edge of the upper board. Short gift inscription on flyleaf. *Sketches of life in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Den Haag: Stok, 1951. 228 pages. B/w frontispiece of Mr Bush (played by Robert Beatty in the Warner Brothers film) and several full-page b/w illustrations. Translated by J.C. Mollema. Endpapers slightly foxed. The price-clipped dustwrapper is chipped at head and tail of spine and is a little dampstained. Original pictorial cloth with the scarce dustwrapper (with a portrait of… Saber más sobre este artículo