Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.
As we have not had a fair since 2019 due to the pandemic, our booksellers have curated many lovely and desirable books to exhibit.
Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights you can expect to see at the Fair in 2022!
There are a number of pages of highlights. To browse all the highlights - choose a page from the list below.
You can also check the highlights listed under your favourite booksellers in the exhibitor directory
T.S. ELIOT: 'The Waste Land'
$15000
Richmond, Hogarth Press, 1923.
The first English edition in book form, hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press in an edition of approximately 460 copies. A splendid unopened copy of this seminal work of modern poetry.
The Sun Post- War Homes.
$200
A Sun-News pictorial. Includes a plan for a Three Stage Home for Newly-Weds by Robin Boyd and K. Pethebridge. From a selection of Modernist architecture including books by Robin Boyd.
TENNYSON, Alfred. Idylls of the King
$650
London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1859. First Edition. Morocco. Small octavo : [10] 261 [3] [6, with original binding laid onto the leaves] : t.e.g. : red morocco boards with edges ruled in gilt : turn ins also gilt ruled : five raised bands to spine, lettered and ruled in gilt with repeating wreath motif. Occasional minor fox mark. Near fine. Item #2484
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Ink The Other Newspaper.
$60
Richard Neville's London underground newspaper, intended as a weekly newsletter aimed at bridging the gap between the radical counter cultural youth and more traditional leftist factions. We are bringing a number of issues.
Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864.
$775
Harper and Brothers Publishers NewYork 1866 (Ist US Edition) 8vo, 638pp + 6 adverts. Professionally rebound in half green morocco, twin coloured labels, gilt, raised bands and marbled boards, new endpapers, minor spotting in text which otherwise is in excellent condition.
Kitajima. - 結核予防. [Kekkaku yobō]. [Tuberculosis Prevention Poster].
$950
内務省社会局保険部. [Naimu-shō Shakai-kyoku Hoken-bu]. 東京. [Tokyo]. (Circa 1925).
Large coloured lithographed poster, 108 x 79cm. Poster has been folded and is now creased but still very striking. Scarce.
This Japanese government poster was published to raise awareness for the prevention of tuberculosis. It bears the campaign slogan "Train your body!" in Japanese. The artists style is strong and dynamic as the young men wrestle like sumo wrestlers while in the background an industrial area with smoking chimneys can be seen.
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[BOYD, Martin] Love Gods. By Martin Mills
$895
London, Constable & Co, 1925. First edition.
Martin Boyd's first novel, published under a nom de plume.
Heinz Promotional Bookmarks
$450
Eight Heinz diecut card Sweet Pickle promotional embossed bookmarks of varying styles. H J Heinz Co: various locations [c.1890-1910]. (130x50mm approx) Generally near fine (one very good with adhesion marks from removal from album).
H J Heinz Co created an extensive range advertising culinary ephemera from the 1860s onwards to promote the wide range of products sold by H J Heinz Co. One of the most iconic was the Sweet Pickle 'Little Ladies'
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Case of Small Japanese Character Movable Type Sorts.
$700
[Circa 20th Century].
One case of cast metal very small movable type sorts for Japanese kanji, hiragana and katakana, case 13.5 x 13.5 cm, the type 2.2 x 05 x 0.5 cm, 25 columns x 25 rows of sort specimens; in very good condition.
Fine examples of Japanese type.
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Bruce Chatwin. IN PATAGONIA. London, 1977.
$1200
First edition of the author's first book.
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Young Nudes: Studies From Japan by Masaya Nakamura
$200
One of a selection of Japanese photography books we exhibiting. Many which are listed in Bertolotti's "Book of Nudes" and Kaneko & Vartanian's "Japanese Photobooks".