{"title":"Rare Book Illustrated Catalogue","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeatured items from the Harry Hartog Illustrated \u0026amp; Fine Press Rare Book Catalogue\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"watership-down","title":"Watership Down (Signed Limited Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eADAMS, Richard\u003c\/strong\u003e (illus. John Lawrence). \u003cem\u003eWatership Down.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Paradine Press, 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e8vo. Full dark green crushed morocco by Sangorski \u0026amp; Sutcliffe. Upper cover with gilt rabbit vignette. Spine with five raised bands, gilt vignettes in compartments and gilt titling. Gilt-decorated dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tipped-in original watercolour frontispiece by John Lawrence, signed by the artist. Signed by Richard Adams on the title page. x, 550 pp., with colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout and folding colour map. New foreword by the author, exclusive to this edition. Housed in original marbled board slipcase. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst illustrated edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, this being number 127.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRichard Adams began telling the story of Hazel, Fiver, and the other rabbits to his two daughters on long car journeys in the early 1970s. When he wrote it down, thirteen publishers rejected it before Rex Collings accepted it in 1972. From that unpromising start, \u003cem\u003eWatership Down\u003c\/em\u003e became one of the most widely read novels of the second half of the twentieth century. It remains Penguin's best-selling novel of all time, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, and a book that continues to find new readers through the generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Paradine Press edition of 1976 is the first illustrated edition of the novel, and by far the most distinguished form in which it has been published. John Lawrence, renowned as one of the foremost British illustrators of his generation, contributed colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout. The volume is also fronted by an original watercolour and is signed by Lawrence. The binding was commissioned from Sangorski \u0026amp; Sutcliffe and is a production of exceptional quality by one of the great London binderies. A new foreword by Adams, not published elsewhere, completes the edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Slipcase near fine, some foxing to inner surfaces. Binding near fine, leather supple, gilt bright. Contents fine; some pages with very faint age markings, pages otherwise fresh, edge gilt bright. Illustrated plates beautifully preserved with colours still true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Adams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044886233331,"sku":"1110002821387","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/set_845f94df-6451-4991-8dc4-393a3e9dfa7d.png?v=1761795684"},{"product_id":"norman-lindsay-watercolours-1897-1969-deluxe-edition-1","title":"Norman Lindsay Watercolours 1897-1969 (Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBLOOMFIELD, Lin\u003c\/strong\u003e (illus. Norman Lindsay). \u003cem\u003eNorman Lindsay Watercolours 1897–1969.\u003c\/em\u003e Bungendore: Odana Editions, 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLarge 4to. Full slate Morocco. Covers and spine lettered and decorated in silver. [vi], 312 pp. 135 full-colour watercolour reproductions by Norman Lindsay throughout, drawn from public galleries and private collections across Australia. \u003cstrong\u003eLimited First Edition. Limited to 550 numbered copies, of which 500 were made available for sale. Signed and numbered by the author to the front limitation page, this being copy 107.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNorman Lindsay (1879–1969) worked in more media and with more sustained energy than almost any other Australian artist of his generation: oil painting, etching, pen and ink, sculpture, ceramics, prose fiction, and the illustrated novel all occupied him at different times across a career that spanned seven decades. His watercolours, by contrast, have been somewhat overshadowed in the public record by his more notorious productions — the oils and etchings of Bacchanalian subjects that attracted censorship and controversy throughout his working life and that have tended to define the popular understanding of his art. This volume addresses that imbalance with considerable authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe 135 watercolours reproduced here, selected and documented by Lin Bloomfield from public galleries and private collections across Australia, cover the full arc of Lindsay's working life from 1897 to 1969 — from the earliest surviving student work of an eighteen-year-old in Creswick, through the long middle period at Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains, to the works of his final years. The range of subject matter is characteristic of Lindsay's restless imagination: scenes from Greek and Roman mythology, Old Testament episodes rendered with the same absence of conventional piety he brought to everything, piracy and maritime adventure, figures from classical literature, and the figures — predominantly female, predominantly nude, predominantly at leisure in a landscape of Arcadian abundance — that recur throughout his work as embodiments of a particular aesthetic vision that Lindsay held with absolute consistency from his twenties to his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhat the watercolour medium reveals about Lindsay that the etchings conceal is the quality of his colour sensibility. The etchings are masterworks of tonal control in black and white; the watercolours show a colourist of genuine subtlety, working with the translucency of the medium to achieve atmospheric effects quite different from those available to him in oil or in etching. Several of the works reproduced here are drawn from private collections and have rarely if ever been publicly exhibited, giving the volume documentary value beyond its appeal as a production object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLin Bloomfield, the author of the scholarly apparatus accompanying the reproductions, had a long association with the Lindsay family and is among the foremost authorities on his work. Odana Editions, the Bungendore-based specialist publisher whose productions in limited edition Australian art book publishing are consistently distinguished, produced the volume to a standard commensurate with its subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Slipcase with very minor rubbing at edges only. Book fine throughout, all contents present, bright, clean, and fresh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is large and heavy. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000088\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lin Bloomfield \u0026 Norman Lindsay (illus.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47672980537587,"sku":"1110002851926","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_407dbb35-245a-4b12-a2be-22160a1ace86.png?v=1780276835"},{"product_id":"women-in-parliament","title":"Women in Parliament (Signed Presentation Copy)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARISTOPHANES\u003c\/strong\u003e (trans. Jack Lindsay; illus. Norman Lindsay). \u003cem\u003eWomen in Parliament\u003c\/em\u003e [\u003cem\u003eEkklesiazousai\u003c\/em\u003e]. London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLarge Folio. Half deep-blue Morocco and blue cloth. Illustrated vignette and titling to cover in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Upper edge gilt, others uncut. xiv, 60 pp. Etchings by Norman Lindsay throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eLimited Deluxe Edition. One of 500 copies. Unnumbered presentation copy, signed by Jack Lindsay to the Limitation page.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bookplate of John Raymond Danson to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Fanfrolico Press was among the most remarkable ventures in the history of Australian letters — and one of the least likely. Founded in London in 1926 by Jack Lindsay, with financial support from P. R. Stephensen and the backing of his father Norman's reputation, it set out to produce limited editions of classical and Renaissance texts in a style that fused the ideals of the private press movement with the Dionysian sensibility that Norman Lindsay had been embodying in Australian art for two decades. The press took its name from a medieval French term for a jester's ornament and its productions were consistently among the most handsome of their period: typographically distinguished, explicitly erotic in many cases, and designed to shock the respectable reader as much as to delight the cultivated one. It operated until 1930, producing forty-three titles in four years, and its publications are among the most sought-after Australian fine press books of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEkklesiazousai\u003c\/em\u003e — variously translated as \u003cem\u003eAssemblywomen\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWomen of the Assembly\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eWomen in Parliament\u003c\/em\u003e — was written by Aristophanes around 392 BC and is among his later and stranger comedies. Praxagora, a citizen woman of Athens, leads the women of the city in a conspiracy: dressing as men, they infiltrate the assembly before dawn and pass a resolution handing control of the state to the women. Once in power, they institute a radical programme of collective ownership: all private property to be held in common, and an equally radical reorganisation of sexual life, by which the young and beautiful are required to satisfy the old and ugly before satisfying each other. The play is a comedy of inversions, using the fantasy of female governance to examine the pretensions of Athenian democracy and the absurdities of utopian thought with the same irreverence Aristophanes brought to everything. Jack Lindsay's translation retains the play's linguistic energy and its willingness to be vulgar in the service of laughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJack Lindsay (1900–1990), Norman's eldest son, was born in Brisbane and educated in Queensland before joining his father in Sydney and subsequently emigrating to England in 1926 to help found the Fanfrolico Press. He went on to write over 170 books across his long career,becoming one of the most prolific and wide-ranging British writers of his generation. His classical translations, produced in the late 1920s and early 1930s, are among the finest of their period in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNorman Lindsay (1879–1969) needs little introduction to Australian readers, and none at all to collectors of Australian art. His etchings for the Fanfrolico Press editions are among the most significant contributions to Australian illustrated book production of the twentieth century. In this edition they provide an accompaniment to Aristophanes' comedy that is, in the best sense of the word, perfectly inappropriate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe unnumbered presentation copy status places this volume outside the regular limitation sequence — a copy set aside from the edition for distribution at the discretion of the press or its principals, and carrying with it the additional interest of an unknown specific recipient. The signature of Jack Lindsay to the Limitation page is the signature of the translator, printer, and pressman in one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good. \u003c\/strong\u003eSome rubbing to binding edges and a few markings to covers. Contents fine throughout, fresh, bright, and free from markings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is large and heavy. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000200\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aristophanes, Jack Lindsay (trans.), Norman Lindsay (illus.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47895539908851,"sku":"1110002901362","price":750.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/096c0d0a-6617-475a-b42c-42a2ae14b7e6.png?v=1760584111"},{"product_id":"the-rolling-stones-tour-of-the-americas-1975-deluxe-and-signed-limited-edition","title":"The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas, 1975 (Deluxe and signed limited edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSYKES, Christopher\u003c\/strong\u003e (photographs \u0026amp; text). \u003cem\u003eThe Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas 1975.\u003c\/em\u003e Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFolio (36 × 31 cm). Full black leather, decoratively blocked. Extensive archive of previously unpublished photographs throughout, with personal diary entries and narrative text by Sykes. Housed in a decorative cloth solander case with compartments containing: forty facsimile backstage passes; two replica hotel room keys; facsimile of the twelve-page \u003cem\u003eStarship\u003c\/em\u003e promotional brochure. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Deluxe Edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies, this being number 332. Signed by Christopher Sykes and Ridge within the book. Additional photograph of Mick Jagger, signed by Sykes, included.\u003c\/strong\u003e All contents collated and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the summer of 1975, the Rolling Stones returned to North and South America for the first time since their legendary 1972 \u003cem\u003eExile on Main St.\u003c\/em\u003e tour — and they returned in considerable style. The Tour of the Americas, known to those who were there as T.O.T.A. '75, ran across forty shows from June to August, introducing their newest member Ronnie Wood to American audiences and presenting, on a series of ever more elaborately designed stages, a band at the peak of its powers and its appetite for spectacle. The tour's logistics were as theatrical as its performances: the band, their entourage, and their invited companions travelled aboard a specially commissioned Boeing 720 rechristened the Starship, equipped with a piano bar, deep carpeting, swivel armchairs, and a bedroom suite. It was less a means of transport than a declaration of intent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eChristopher Sykes was brought along as the tour's official chronicler — a trusted friend with a photographer's eye and a documentarian's instinct for what would matter when the music stopped. For the full duration of the forty-show run, he was embedded with the band, travelling on the Starship, present at rehearsals and press encounters and the countless hours of waiting and movement that constitute the vast majority of any touring musician's experience. The photographs he made during those months — a substantial archive of which had never been published before this Genesis Publications volume — record the tour from the inside: not the stage-managed images of official photographers but the candid visual diary of a companion who was trusted enough to be unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe text of the book draws on Sykes's personal diary entries made during the tour, giving the photographs a narrative and contextual frame that promotional photography by definition cannot provide. The result is one of the most intimate documents of the Rolling Stones at the height of their commercial and artistic power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGenesis Publications, founded by Brian Roylance, has established itself over four decades as the foremost producer of ultra-luxury limited edition books in the field of music and popular culture. Their productions are overseen, in the case of books about active artists, by the subjects themselves; this volume was produced with the full participation and approval of the Rolling Stones, giving it an official status that distinguishes it from unauthorised publications. The physical production — full leather binding, solander case with individual compartments for the facsimile passes and hotel keys, the \u003cem\u003eStarship\u003c\/em\u003e brochure reproduction — reflects the premium Genesis brings to everything it produces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Deluxe Edition, limited to only 350 copies, is the rarest and most finely produced of the several formats in which this title was issued.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFine. Impeccably preserved inside solander case. All contents collated and complete, including all passes, keys, and brochure. Solander case shows some minor markings only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is large and heavy. Additional postage costs will apply. Please contact us for a shipping quote before purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePenrith\u003c\/strong\u003e store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000259\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon Christopher Sykes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48194819719411,"sku":"1110002928000","price":3400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/Untitleddesign_10_26add8b8-7998-4448-bb64-c526adfd1e7e.png?v=1764736899"},{"product_id":"the-life-and-work-of-sydney-long-first-deluxe-edition","title":"The Life and Work of Sydney Long (First Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMENDELSSOHN, Joanna.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Life and Work of Sydney Long.\u003c\/em\u003e Sydney: Copperfield Publishing, 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eTall, thick 4to. Full red-brown crushed Morocco leather. Titling to cover and spine in gilt. Spine with four raised bands, margined in gilt. Publisher's stamp in gilt to lower spine compartment. Blue endpapers. 284, [ii] pp. Numerous plates throughout, many tipped-in, including a large folding double-page plate to the rear. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Edition. Limited Deluxe Edition. Signed and numbered to the title page. One of 275 copies, this being number 184.\u003c\/strong\u003e Plates remain glossy, vivid, and fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSydney Long (1871–1955) occupies a singular position in the history of Australian art: he was the painter who took the bush, that most resolutely Australian of subjects, and refracted it through the lens of European Symbolism and Art Nouveau, producing in the process images unlike anything that had been seen before in this country. Where his contemporaries at the Heidelberg School — Roberts, Streeton, McCubbin — were engaged in rendering the Australian landscape with the clear-eyed directness of the plein-air tradition, Long was asking a different question: what would happen if Pan came to the eucalyptus forest? What would happen if the spirit presiding over the Australian bush were not a weather-beaten selector or a drover's wife but a nude figure playing pipes while children danced in the heat haze beneath the gum trees?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHis answer was \u003cem\u003ePan\u003c\/em\u003e (1898), the painting that made his reputation and that remains his best-known work: a panoramic horizontal canvas in which a young woman plays pan-pipes in a luminous golden landscape of native grasses and silhouetted eucalypts, while a procession of distant nude figures moves across the middle ground in a sinuous, decorative line. The work won the Wynne Prize — awarded for the best landscape painting of the year — and announced a sensibility that was both authentically Australian in its observation of light and country, and thoroughly international in its awareness of what Gustave Moreau and the Pre-Raphaelites and the Vienna Secession were doing to the figure in landscape. Long won the Wynne Prize four times in total, a record that reflects the consistency and the depth of his engagement with the Australian landscape as a subject over more than a decade of sustained production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFrom approximately 1906 Long turned primarily to etching and printmaking, and the Sydney Harbour etchings and drypoints he produced over the following decades constitute an equally significant body of work — meticulous, atmospheric, technically accomplished — that is now highly sought after in the print market. He taught at East Sydney Technical College for many years, shaping several generations of Australian artists, and remained a respected figure in Sydney's art world until his death in 1955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJoanna Mendelssohn's monograph, published by Copperfield Publishing in 1979, was the first comprehensive scholarly account of Long's life and work and remains the standard reference on the subject. Copperfield Publishing, the Sydney-based fine art press, produced the book in two formats: a trade edition and the signed limited deluxe edition offered here, bound in full crushed Morocco and limited to 275 copies. The reproduction quality throughout is excellent; the plates — glossy, vivid, and printed with the care the subject demands — do full justice to Long's colour and line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNear fine. Bindings in near-perfect condition with a couple of very minor markings to spine and light rubbing at corners. A few small spots to fore-edge. Contents otherwise as new. Plates fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is large and heavy. Additional postage costs may apply. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003ePaddington\u003c\/strong\u003e store. 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She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (for \u003cem\u003eDeath's Master\u003c\/em\u003e in 1980, the second volume in the series of which \u003cem\u003eNight's Master\u003c\/em\u003e is the first), and her prose style — ornate, sensuous, rhythmically assured, capable of moving between tenderness and terror with complete command — is among the most distinctive in modern fantasy literature. She died in May 2015; her signature on this limitation page is therefore a posthumous one, carrying the weight that such signatures inevitably acquire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight's Master\u003c\/em\u003e, first published by DAW Books in paperback in 1978, is the opening volume of the Tales from the Flat Earth sequence — five novels set in a world that is, as its name declares, literally flat, beneath a dome of sky that separates the human world from the realm of the demon princes above and the underworld below. The series draws directly and openly on the tradition of the \u003cem\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/em\u003e: its narrative mode is that of oriental fable, its structure is episodic, and its presiding spirit is a conviction that the stories of human desire, folly, love, and death are inexhaustible. 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The dust jacket illustration is by Barclay Shaw, the American science fiction artist whose covers for Highland Press, Berkley, and other publishers were among the most distinctive in the genre during this period. The interior illustrations are by Randy Broecker, whose work for Highland Press gave their limited editions a visual coherence unusual in small press production of the era. Both illustrators signed the limitation page alongside Lee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe lettered presentation copies — of which this is one of twenty-six, none intended for commercial sale — are substantially scarcer than the 500 numbered copies, and circulate far less frequently on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dust jacket unclipped and fine. 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His career began in pen and ink for the illustrated press, developed through the early gift books of the 1890s, and reached its full characteristic expression with the extraordinary sequence of Heinemann illustrated gift books that defined his reputation: \u003cem\u003eRip Van Winkle\u003c\/em\u003e (1905), \u003cem\u003ePeter Pan in Kensington Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e (1906), \u003cem\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e (1907), \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e (1908), the Wagnerian \u003cem\u003eRhinegold and the Valkyrie\u003c\/em\u003e (1910) and \u003cem\u003eSiegfried and the Twilight of the Gods\u003c\/em\u003e (1911), and this volume, \u003cem\u003eAesop's Fables\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1912.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe Rackham of the Heinemann gift books is a distinct and identifiable sensibility. 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The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition.\u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"inline-flex\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe translation of this edition is by V. S. Vernon Jones, whose rendering of the Aesopic tradition into clear, idiomatic English prose was the standard English version for decades. The introduction is by G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) — essayist, novelist, theologian, and one of the most acute literary minds of his generation — who brings to Aesop the same paradoxical intelligence he brought to everything. 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Of the 1,450 numbered and signed copies, Heinemann reserved 200 specifically for the Australian market — a relatively large allocation that reflects both the vigour of the colonial book trade and the already substantial reputation Rackham had established in the antipodean market before the First World War. \u003cstrong\u003eThe limitation page is signed by Rackham in black ink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good.\u003c\/strong\u003e Covers marked and somewhat soiled. Spine darkened with a bump near the middle. Binding sound: square and tight. Contents very good; some markings and toning throughout, most prominent to preliminaries and to pages succeeding the plate mounts. 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Publisher's note tipped in on tan paper following copyright page. Dust jacket. Slipcase. \u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition, number 534 of 1200 copies. First edition thus.\u003c\/strong\u003e Printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, in Centaur type, on handmade paper. Designed by Hans Mardersteig. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatherine Mansfield died in January 1923, aged thirty-four, having contracted tuberculosis during the First World War. She left behind four published collections of short stories and a reputation as one of the transforming figures of literary modernism. 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Original publisher's quarter vellum and blue paper boards, gilt titling to spine, titling in black to upper cover. Frontispiece, xv, 303 pp., 100 full-page plates. Latin text on verso with English translation facing on recto throughout. Upper edge gilt, others uncut. \u003cstrong\u003eLimited to 265 copies (250 for sale to subscribers), number 86. Signed by Norman Lindsay and Ralph Straus.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant and challenging work that occupies a distinguished position in the history of controversial publications. The love-child of two brilliant figures, Ralph Straus and Norman Lindsay, Burnaby's translation of Petronius's \u003cem\u003eSatyricon \u003c\/em\u003eformed the perfect basis of an audacious publishing venture. For Straus, London bibliophile and man of letters, this was an act of rescue for a stagnant era. 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The binding — full brown leather with covers and spine profusely decorated in gilt, blue, and green, with six raised bands and all edges gilt — gives the set a physical presence commensurate with its subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e A small number of imperfections to cover gilt; otherwise fine throughout, inside and out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is very large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. For international shipping please contact us for a quote.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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He was, in fact, Captain Richard Francis Burton of the East India Company's Bombay Infantry, and the notes he carried were among the most closely observed records of the Islamic world ever compiled by a European. The penalty for discovery, in a city that barred non-Muslims on pain of death, was understood by all parties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBurton not only reached Medina and Mecca; he entered the Kaaba itself and participated in the full rites of the Hajj, becoming one of the very few non-Muslims ever to have done so and returned to record the experience. \u003cem\u003ePersonal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1855, made him famous almost immediately. It is travel writing of the highest order — precise, analytical, linguistically exuberant, and entirely without the condescension that disfigured most Victorian writing about the Islamic world. Burton's sympathy for the people and the faith he encountered was genuine, and the portrait he drew of the Hajj in the mid-nineteenth century — its physical hardships, its social complexity, the extraordinary range of humanity converging on the same holy city from across the Muslim world — remains one of the indispensable documents of Victorian exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBurton went on to attempt the sources of the Nile with John Hanning Speke, translate the unexpurgated \u003cem\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eKama Sutra\u003c\/em\u003e, and produce some forty volumes of travel, scholarship, and verse. He was knighted in 1886. His wife Isabel burned many of his unpublished manuscripts after his death in 1890, an act of devotion he had not requested and would not have welcomed. 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Henry Gilbert's retelling, first published by T. C. \u0026amp; E. C. Jack in Edinburgh in 1912, remains one of the most satisfying prose versions of the legend for the directness of its narrative, its feel for the texture of medieval England, and its clear sympathy for the outlaws' cause. Gilbert wrote the book the year after his \u003cem\u003eKing Arthur's Knights\u003c\/em\u003e for the same publisher and the same audience — readers old enough to appreciate the political dimensions of the material alongside the adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe illustrations Walter Crane produced for the 1912 edition are among the most distinguished he made in the final years of his career. 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The three men were Edward Wilson, the expedition's chief scientist; Henry Robertson Bowers; and Apsley Cherry-Garrard, at twenty-four the youngest member of the Terra Nova expedition. They were gone for five weeks. When they returned, frostbitten, their sleeping bags frozen solid around them, Scott described what they had done as \"the hardest journey ever made.\" Cherry-Garrard later used that phrase as the starting point for his title — for it was this journey, not the polar journey, that he meant by the worst.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe polar journey followed in the summer of 1911–12, and Cherry-Garrard was not among the five men chosen for the final march to the Pole. He was part of the support party that turned back from the polar plateau. In February 1912 he was sent south with the dog teams to a pre-arranged position at One Ton Depot to await Scott's return. He waited. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000472\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Twain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056234209523,"sku":"1110002989971","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_95bd820a-70f3-4072-a6f1-9f9742e4db62.png?v=1778813740"},{"product_id":"the-scarlet-letter-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Scarlet Letter (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHAWTHORNE, Nathaniel\u003c\/strong\u003e (illus. 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Set in the Puritan colony of Massachusetts in the 1640s, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, condemned to wear a scarlet \"A\" for adultery on her dress and forced to stand in public shame, who refuses to name the father of her child. The father is the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the colony's most admired clergyman; the wronged husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns from captivity and devotes himself to destroying Dimmesdale from within. The novel is constructed with the rigour of allegory and the density of symbol, but it is also a psychological study of extraordinary precision, tracing the effects of concealed guilt on a man constitutionally incapable of honest confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHawthorne changed his name from Hathorne partly to distance himself from his ancestor John Hathorne, one of the presiding judges at the Salem witch trials of 1692. The Puritan past was not an abstraction for him; it was family history, and \u003cem\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/em\u003e is in part an act of reckoning with it. The novel influenced Melville so profoundly that \u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e, dedicated to Hawthorne, can be read in part as a response to its methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe illustrations were designed by W. A. Dwiggins (1880–1956), one of the most consequential figures in twentieth-century American typography and book design. Dwiggins coined the term \"graphic design,\" created the typefaces Caledonia and Electra for Linotype, and shaped the visual character of American publishing for three decades through his work with Alfred A. Knopf. His involvement in this early Easton Press edition gives it a particular distinction among the series. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000480\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056249086195,"sku":"1110002989988","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_6a1f5030-c3d9-4509-9742-b82b78edd26f.png?v=1778814270"},{"product_id":"lady-chatterleys-lover-women-in-love-sons-and-lovers-3-volumes-easton-press-collectors-editions","title":"Lady Chatterley's Lover, Women in Love, Sons and Lovers (3 volumes, Easton Press Collector's Editions)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLAWRENCE, D. 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All fine, presenting as new.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDavid Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the fourth child of a coal miner and a former schoolteacher whose marriage was defined by class tension, mutual disappointment, and an intensity of feeling that Lawrence spent his career processing in fiction. He died of tuberculosis at forty-four, having written eleven novels, many of them banned or prosecuted, and having lived in England, Italy, Germany, Ceylon, Australia, New Mexico, and Mexico. The three novels gathered here represent the full range of his achievement and the full arc of his development as a novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSons and Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e (1913) is the earliest and in some ways the most directly autobiographical. 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The sequel to \u003cem\u003eThe Rainbow\u003c\/em\u003e, it follows two sisters — Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen — and the men they become entangled with: Rupert Birkin, a school inspector with Lawrentian views about the nature of authentic human connection, and Gerald Crich, a mine owner whose relationship to power and control is ultimately fatal. Set against the backdrop of industrial England and the First World War, which Lawrence regarded as the end of a civilisation, the novel asks what it might mean to live and love honestly in a world organised around mechanism and death. It is formally radical, psychologically demanding, and thematically inexhaustible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLady Chatterley's Lover\u003c\/em\u003e (1928) was the last of the three to be written and the most notorious. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000474\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D. H. 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The book traces the entire subsequent history of Darwinism, from the initial controversy surrounding \u003cem\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/em\u003e through the eclipse of natural selection by Mendelian genetics in the early twentieth century, through the Modern Synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s in which genetics and natural selection were reconciled, and into the molecular biology of the mid-twentieth century that gave evolution its biochemical foundations. It is as much an intellectual history of biology as a conventional biography, and the two threads illuminate each other throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCharles Darwin (1809–1882) published \u003cem\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/em\u003e in 1859 after more than twenty years of deliberate delay, aware of what the book would provoke. It provoked everything he had anticipated and more. 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Part of the Easton Press Library of Military History.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the summer of 1803 President Thomas Jefferson concluded the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the United States at a stroke and acquiring for the nation an enormous territory about which almost nothing was known. Jefferson had already been planning an expedition. He now had his reason, and he gave the commission to his private secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, who invited his friend Lieutenant William Clark to share the command. The Corps of Discovery, thirty-three strong, set out from Camp Dubois near St. Louis in May 1804 and returned there in September 1806. In the intervening two years and four months they had travelled eight thousand miles, crossed the Continental Divide, reached the Pacific Ocean, described hundreds of plant and animal species previously unknown to science, made contact with dozens of Native nations, and produced the most consequential geographical survey in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe journals Lewis and Clark kept throughout the journey are among the foundational documents of American literature and natural history. Contained are richly detailed records of the landscape, flora, fauna, weather, and peoples encountered from the Missouri River to the mouth of the Columbia, written in a plain, direct style that carries the immediacy of daily observation. The natural history sections alone — descriptions of the grizzly bear, the pronghorn, the prairie dog, the western meadowlark, and dozens of other species — constitute a primary scientific document of the first order. The accounts of the expedition's human encounters, including the crucial assistance rendered by Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who joined the Corps at Fort Mandan in present-day North Dakota, are irreplaceable records of a world on the threshold of permanent transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNicholas Biddle (1786–1844), the Philadelphia lawyer and financier who edited the journals for their first publication in 1814, produced a remarkably readable narrative from the raw material of the captains' notes. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000477\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicholas Biddle (ed.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056457130227,"sku":"1110002990021","price":140.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_71e90ab2-3698-4328-8925-30f70813d82b.png?v=1778815877"},{"product_id":"the-innocents-abroad-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Innocents Abroad (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTWAIN, Mark.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. 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The blue skies of the Mediterranean were often damp and grey; the celebrated antiquities were frequently disappointing at close quarters; the piety of the Holy Land was thoroughly entangled with petty commerce; and his fellow passengers, whom he catalogued with affectionate malice, were exactly as provincial as he was, though considerably less willing to admit it. The comedy is inseparable from a genuine argument about the relationship between expectation and experience, between the inherited reverence Americans felt for Europe and the democratic irreverence that was the deepest expression of their own culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe book sold over 100,000 copies in its first year and remained the best-selling of Twain's works in his lifetime. 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The novel he had produced was something new in English-language fiction: a work in which the central action is almost entirely internal, in which the drama consists not of events but of a consciousness responding to events, and in which the reader's engagement is sustained not by plot but by the exquisite precision with which James renders the movements of a mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThat mind belongs to Isabel Archer, a young American woman from Albany, New York, who arrives in England convinced of her own freedom and determined to exercise it. She is beautiful, intelligent, and possessed of an absolute belief in the possibility of living on her own terms. She refuses two eligible suitors — Lord Warburton, an English aristocrat of genuine warmth and good faith, and Caspar Goodwood, an American businessman of bulldog persistence — and then inherits a fortune that should, in theory, make her freedom complete. What it actually does is make her interesting to Gilbert Osmond, a cultivated, impoverished American living in Florence, whose aesthetic sensibility conceals a will to possession and control that James renders with a coldness that amounts to a kind of horror. Isabel marries him. She discovers, too late, the nature of what she has done. The novel's final chapters — Isabel's recognition of her situation, the choices available to her, and the choice she makes — represent some of the most demanding and morally serious writing in nineteenth-century fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJames revised the novel extensively for the 1908 New York Edition of his collected works, rewriting large portions of the prose in his late, labyrinthine style. The original 1881 text, presented in this edition, has a directness and economy that makes the tragedy more rather than less affecting — the reader can see clearly what Isabel cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe illustrations were produced by Colleen Browning (1918–2003), the Irish-born American realist painter who was a full member of the National Academy of Design and whose work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The introduction by R. W. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000480\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056777109747,"sku":"1110002990052","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_781dfef2-be0f-4cc8-adbb-bb6b3ca0be86.png?v=1778817392"},{"product_id":"washington-square-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"Washington Square (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJAMES, Henry\u003c\/strong\u003e (intro. Louis Auchincloss; illus. Lawrence Beall Smith). \u003cem\u003eWashington Square.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full light blue leather. Spine with three raised bands, gilt-decorated. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 204 pp. Illustrations by Lawrence Beall Smith throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Masterpieces of American Literature series. An early and scarce Easton Press production.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1880, the year before \u003cem\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/em\u003e, and stands in instructive contrast to that novel. Where \u003cem\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds across England, Florence, and Rome, with a cast drawn from the international society that James knew intimately, \u003cem\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/em\u003e is set entirely in a single New York neighbourhood — the quiet, respectable, brownstone world of lower Fifth Avenue in the 1840s and 1850s — and its four characters are as plainly drawn as any James ever created. It is, by some distance, his most accessible novel, and also, in its ending, one of his most quietly devastating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCatherine Sloper is the only child of Dr. Austin Sloper, a brilliant, prosperous New York physician who cannot forgive his daughter for being neither beautiful nor clever, and who watches her romantic life with the detached amusement of a man whose intellectual superiority has immunised him against feeling. When Morris Townsend — handsome, charming, and conspicuously without occupation — begins to court Catherine, Dr. Sloper identifies him immediately as a fortune-hunter. He is correct. The question the novel poses is what that correctness costs him, and what it costs Catherine. Morris eventually abandons her when it becomes clear that Dr. Sloper will disinherit her if she marries him. Years pass. Catherine lives quietly in Washington Square, sewing, as her father always thought she would. When Morris returns, older and humbled, hoping to resume where they left off, Catherine's response to him is the final turn of a novel that has been, from the first page, a study in the varieties of human cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel was adapted for the stage as \u003cem\u003eThe Heiress\u003c\/em\u003e in 1947 by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, and filmed the same year with Olivia de Havilland in the title role and Ralph Richardson as Dr. Sloper. The stage version remains in the repertoire. The introduction to this edition was written by Louis Auchincloss (1917–2010), the American novelist and literary critic whose own fiction about New York society placed him in direct descent from James, and who wrote some of the most perceptive critical commentary on James's work produced in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Easton Press edition of 1971, part of the early Masterpieces of American Literature series, is among the first productions of the Easton Press programme and is considerably scarcer than the later \"100 Greatest Books Ever Written\" Collector's Editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000481\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056791036147,"sku":"1110002990069","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_92c25bb9-05d2-4905-a26e-e9c107687410.png?v=1778817753"},{"product_id":"the-red-badge-of-courage-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Red Badge of Courage (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRANE, Stephen\u003c\/strong\u003e (intro. Carl Van Doren; illus. John Steuart Curry). \u003cem\u003eThe Red Badge of Courage.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLarge Octavo. Full red leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Red moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. xiii, 170 pp. Sepia-tone illustrations and plates by John Steuart Curry throughout; frontispiece portrait of Crane by Edward Vebell. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition. Part of the \"100 Greatest Books Ever Written\" series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eStephen Crane was twenty-four years old when \u003cem\u003eThe Red Badge of Courage\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1895. He had never witnessed combat. He had been born six years after the Civil War ended, in Newark, New Jersey, and had spent his short working life — he died of tuberculosis at twenty-eight — as a journalist in New York. What he produced from research, imagination, and an instinctive understanding of psychological states under extreme pressure was a novel unlike anything that had appeared in American literature before it: a work of sustained psychological realism that dispensed with the heroic conventions of war writing and replaced them with the fluctuating, self-deceiving, intensely subjective inner experience of a young soldier who is frightened, ashamed, brave, and confused in roughly equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHenry Fleming enlists in the Union Army with a head full of romantic notions about battle and glory. When his regiment first comes under fire he flees. The novel is largely the record of what follows: his rationalisation of his cowardice, his longing for a wound — the \"red badge of courage\" of the title — that would make him look like a veteran rather than a deserter, his gradual return to his regiment, and his discovery in subsequent engagements of something that might be called courage, though the novel is careful not to make that discovery feel entirely clean or complete. The writing operates through a series of disconnected impressions — the colour of smoke, the sound of cannon, the quality of light on a battlefield — that established a mode of representing combat consciousness that influenced Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the whole tradition of American war writing that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe illustrations were produced by John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), one of the three central figures of American Regionalist painting alongside Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. Curry was born in Kansas and is best known for his monumental murals of the American Midwest; his dramatic, large-scale compositions are particularly well-suited to the subject. The Easton Press edition reprints the 1944 Limited Editions Club production, for which Curry's illustrations were originally commissioned, with an introduction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and biographer Carl Van Doren (1885–1950).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000482\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Crane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056854999283,"sku":"1110002990076","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_39048999-c42d-4335-abcc-eeae6da5d752.png?v=1778818087"},{"product_id":"the-red-and-the-black-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Red and the Black (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTENDHAL\u003c\/strong\u003e (Marie-Henri Beyle; trans. C. K. Scott-Moncrieff; intro. Hamilton Basso; illus. Rafaello Busoni). \u003cem\u003eThe Red and the Black.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLarge 8vo. Full red leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. xvii, 450 pp. Colour illustrations by Rafaello Busoni throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition. Part of the \"100 Greatest Books Ever Written\" series. First Easton Press edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMarie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), who published his major works under the pseudonym Stendhal, wrote \u003cem\u003eLe Rouge et le Noir\u003c\/em\u003e in 1830 and had it published that same year in Paris. He was forty-seven. The novel he had produced was one that his own era did not fully understand — it was too psychologically acute, too politically sardonic, too willing to present its protagonist without moral simplification. It took the better part of the nineteenth century before Stendhal's reputation settled into what it has since remained: one of the founders of the realist novel and, alongside Balzac and Flaubert, one of the three indispensable writers of nineteenth-century French fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel follows Julien Sorel, the brilliantly intelligent and ferociously ambitious son of a provincial carpenter in the fictional town of Verrières, who sets out to rise in a society that has closed its avenues of advancement to men of his class since the fall of Napoleon. The routes available are the church and the drawing room — the black and the red of the title — and Julien navigates both with a cold strategic intelligence that is perpetually undermined by the fact that he actually feels things. His affair with Madame de Rênal, the gentle wife of the local mayor who employs him as tutor, begins as calculation and becomes something entirely different. His subsequent entanglement with the proud and capricious Mathilde de la Mole, daughter of the Parisian nobleman he serves as secretary, follows a similarly destabilising course. Julien is not a hypocrite who has suppressed a better nature; he is a man in whom ambition and feeling exist in permanent, unresolved conflict, and the tragedy the novel arrives at is entirely consistent with everything we have understood about him from the first page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe translation is by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (1889–1930), best known for his magisterial English rendering of Proust's \u003cem\u003eÀ la Recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/em\u003e, who brought the same exactitude and elegance to Stendhal's more economical prose. The introduction is by Hamilton Basso (1904–1964), the American novelist and New Yorker contributor whose own fiction about the American South shares something of Stendhal's interest in class, aspiration, and the gap between social performance and private feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000483\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STENDHAL (Marie-Henri Beyle)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056907493619,"sku":"1110002990083","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_adea1bfa-9df2-492b-9dbc-06b57863d8bf.png?v=1778818401"},{"product_id":"the-sea-wolf-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Sea Wolf (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONDON, Jack\u003c\/strong\u003e (intro. 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Blue leather variant — the majority of copies were issued in red leather.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJack London published \u003cem\u003eThe Sea-Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e in 1904, the year after \u003cem\u003eThe Call of the Wild\u003c\/em\u003e, and it became one of his most sustained and philosophically ambitious works. He had been reading Nietzsche, and what he produced was a novel that places a Nietzschean figure at its centre and then interrogates rather than celebrates him — a more complex exercise than it might initially appear from a writer whose reputation for muscular adventure fiction tends to obscure his intellectual seriousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe premise is simple. Humphrey Van Weyden, a literary critic of comfortable means and no practical experience of anything, survives a ferry collision in San Francisco Bay and is pulled from the water by the sealing schooner \u003cem\u003eGhost\u003c\/em\u003e, commanded by Wolf Larsen. Larsen is everything Van Weyden is not: physically magnificent, intellectually formidable, and entirely without moral sentiment. He reads Milton and Spencer in his cabin between acts of savage discipline, constructs coherent philosophical arguments for a materialist worldview in which the strong consume the weak as a matter of natural law, and operates the \u003cem\u003eGhost\u003c\/em\u003e as a floating kingdom of personal will. Van Weyden, forced to work as a cabin boy, is simultaneously appalled, fascinated, and challenged in ways he has never been challenged before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel is partly a critique of the Nietzschean will to power — Larsen's philosophy is presented with genuine force but London ensures that its human cost is never softened — and partly an exploration of what it means to become capable and self-reliant in the face of conditions that cannot be managed by intellect alone. When Maud Brewster, a poet, is also brought aboard the \u003cem\u003eGhost\u003c\/em\u003e, and Van Weyden and Larsen both recognise her significance, the novel takes on an additional dimension that London handles with more delicacy than his reputation would suggest. The first printing of forty thousand copies sold out before publication; its immediate success confirmed London as the most widely read American writer of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe illustrations were produced by Fletcher Martin (1904–1979), the American painter and magazine illustrator who served as a war artist during the Second World War and whose vigorous, painterly style is particularly well-suited to the novel's dramatic seascapes and action. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000484\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jack London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056966312179,"sku":"1110002990090","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_b09f1292-ff50-44e4-a611-5897bd4ae9c0.png?v=1778818759"},{"product_id":"madame-bovary-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"Madame Bovary (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFLAUBERT, Gustave\u003c\/strong\u003e (trans. J. 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First Easton Press edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGustave Flaubert spent five years writing \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e and published it in serial form in the \u003cem\u003eRevue de Paris\u003c\/em\u003e in 1856. Within months, both author and publisher were prosecuted by the French government on charges of immorality and offence to public morals. Both were acquitted. When the novel appeared in book form in 1857 it was immediately recognised as something unprecedented: a work of such technical precision and such unsparing psychological intelligence that the whole existing tradition of the novel looked, in retrospect, somewhat approximate. It has never lost that quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEmma Rouault is the daughter of a Norman farmer who has educated herself, not wisely, on a diet of romantic fiction. She marries Charles Bovary, a provincial doctor of adequate competence and no imagination, and discovers that provincial life and marriage bear no resemblance to the world she had been reading about. The discovery does not lead her to adjust her expectations; it leads her to pursue them elsewhere — through two successive affairs, through mounting debt incurred in the furnishing of a fantasy life she cannot afford, and through the gradual, devastating unravelling of every resource, material and emotional, that she has. Flaubert's achievement is to make Emma simultaneously impossible to admire and impossible to dismiss; the novel condemns her romanticism and the society that produced it in exactly equal measure, and its famous irony is not cruelty but precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe prose style Flaubert developed for this novel — the celebrated \u003cem\u003estyle indirect libre\u003c\/em\u003e, in which narration and character consciousness blur into each other without quotation marks or attribution — was so revolutionary that its influence cannot be bounded. It runs through Maupassant, Chekhov, James, Woolf, Hemingway, and beyond: essentially every major development in the literary handling of interiority in the century and a half since publication passes through \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e in some way. Flaubert is said to have described his heroine as himself: \u003cem\u003e\"Madame Bovary, c'est moi.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Whether or not he said it, it is true in the sense that matters — he understood her completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe illustrations by Pierre Brissaud (1885–1964) — the French artist known for his elegant work in \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eGazette du Bon Ton\u003c\/em\u003e — are engraved in wood by Théo Schmied (1873–1948), the Swiss-born master engraver and bookmaker whose editions are among the most refined productions of the Art Deco period. The introduction is by Jacques de Lacretelle (1888–1985), the French novelist and member of the Académie française, whose literary authority on the subject is unimpeachable. The translation by J. Lewis May carries the novel's precise irony into English with fidelity and care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000485\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gustave Flaubert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49057061896435,"sku":"1110002990106","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_ebc1ba3a-7632-4fda-8607-487fa8975589.png?v=1778819091"},{"product_id":"candide-or-optimism-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"Candide, or Optimism (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVOLTAIRE\u003c\/strong\u003e (François-Marie Arouet; trans. Richard Aldington; intro. Paul Morand; illus. Sylvain Sauvage). \u003cem\u003eCandide, or Optimism.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1977.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLarge Octavo. Full blue-grey leather. Spine with three raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. xix, 131 pp. Colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition. Part of the \"100 Greatest Books Ever Written\" series. First Easton Press edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn January 1759, a slim volume appeared in Paris under the title \u003cem\u003eCandide, ou l'Optimisme\u003c\/em\u003e, attributed to a fictitious \"Doctor Rarb_lph\" and translated from the equally fictitious German. Voltaire denied authorship vigorously and unconvincingly. Within weeks it had been seized by the authorities in Paris, Geneva, and Rome; within months it had been translated into multiple languages and was being read across Europe. It has been in print continuously ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFrançois-Marie Arouet (1694–1778) — who published under the name Voltaire from his twenties onward — had spent a career dismantling received ideas with a wit so precise and an irony so controlled that its targets rarely saw the blow coming. \u003cem\u003eCandide\u003c\/em\u003e is the culmination of that career. It was written in response to two things: the catastrophic Lisbon earthquake of 1755, which killed tens of thousands and seemed to demand some account from those who maintained, following Leibniz, that the Creator had arranged things in the best of all possible ways; and the Seven Years' War, then in its early stages, which was providing daily evidence of the human capacity for organised slaughter. Voltaire's instrument was a young man of unfailing good nature and Panglossian optimism — Candide, the pupil of Dr. Pangloss, who maintains to the last that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds — whom he subjected to every variety of calamity the eighteenth century could supply: war, shipwreck, earthquake, the Inquisition, slavery, and the systematic corruption of everything good. The novella ends not with a refutation of Pangloss's philosophy but with something more practical: the famous instruction to cultivate one's own garden. Whether this represents resignation, pragmatism, or wisdom is a question the text deliberately declines to resolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe translation is by Richard Aldington (1892–1962), the English poet, novelist, and Imagist, whose rendering captures the novella's distinctive tone — at once cheerful and devastating — with particular fidelity. The introduction is by Paul Morand (1888–1976), the French novelist, diplomat, and member of the Académie française. The illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage (1888–1948), the French Art Deco graphic artist, were originally created for the celebrated Nonesuch Press edition of 1929 and are among the most distinguished visual accompaniments the work has received.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000486\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Voltaire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49057074741491,"sku":"1110002990113","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_dd2be359-740f-430c-8e03-cd3be70efe84.png?v=1778819515"},{"product_id":"the-talisman-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Talisman (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSCOTT, Sir Walter\u003c\/strong\u003e (intro. 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Among the earliest Easton Press productions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSir Walter Scott (1771–1832) published \u003cem\u003eThe Talisman\u003c\/em\u003e in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, and it has remained one of his most consistently readable and widely enjoyed novels despite the general decline of his broader reputation. Set in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade of 1190, it follows Sir Kenneth of the Leopard, a Scottish knight in the army of Richard I of England, whose encounter with a mysterious Arab physician named Adonbec el Hakim sets in motion a sequence of events touching honour, treachery, and the complex relationship between two great adversaries — Richard Coeur-de-Lion and Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria — who are presented here not as enemies but as the two most chivalrous figures in a world that falls short of chivalry on every other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe identity of Adonbec el Hakim is revealed in the novel's course, and the revelation is the pivot on which Scott's meditation on honour turns. Richard, rash and imperious but genuinely great, and Saladin, controlled and magnificent, represent for Scott two competing but not wholly incompatible conceptions of nobility — the one born of Christian Europe, the other of Islamic civilisation — and their mutual recognition is the moral centre of the book. It is characteristic of Scott at his best that neither figure is sentimentalised and neither is simply heroic; both are great men in whom greatness coexists with very human failing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Talisman\u003c\/em\u003e was written at a period when Scott's financial situation was deteriorating catastrophically — his publisher Constable went bankrupt in 1826, bringing Scott down with him — and the speed of composition under commercial pressure is occasionally apparent in the plotting. It has not, however, diminished the novel's power to hold a reader. The adventure narrative is vigorously managed, the historical atmosphere credibly sustained, and the central relationship between Richard and Saladin has the kind of moral weight that justifies the label of historical romance rather than mere adventure fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe illustrations were produced by Federico Castellon (1914–1971), the Spanish-born American surrealist painter and graphic artist whose lithographs and etchings are held in major American museum collections. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000487\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sir Walter Scott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49057166885107,"sku":"1110002990120","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8ca45ef9-7ed9-4c3a-ac54-437a4173438a.png?v=1778819903"},{"product_id":"let-the-great-world-spin-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Let the Great World Spin (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMcCANN, Colum.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eLet the Great World Spin.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 349 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the designated page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOn the morning of 7 August 1974, the French funambulist Philippe Petit stepped onto a wire strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, then the tallest buildings in the world, and walked. He walked back and forth eight times, a quarter of a mile above lower Manhattan, stopping to lie on the wire, to salute a seagull, to dance. The feat was illegal and the wire had been rigged in secret over two nights. When Petit stepped back onto the roof he was immediately arrested. 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The Dublin Award judges described it as \"a genuinely twenty-first century novel that speaks to its time but is not enslaved by it.\" McCann, born in Dublin in 1965, had lived in New York for many years by the time of publication, and the novel's intimacy with the city's geography, voices, and textures is that of a writer who has absorbed his material through years of sustained attention rather than research.\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine. \u003c\/strong\u003eSome fading to gilt on covers; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, Collector's Notes, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRobert Silverberg (b. 1935) has been one of the most prolific and consistently accomplished writers in the history of science fiction: a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, and designated Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in the same year as this Easton Press edition, 2004. The range of his output is extraordinary, and \u003cem\u003eDying Inside\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1972, is widely regarded as the work in which his literary ambitions were most fully realised and the work by which he is most likely to be remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDavid Selig is a telepath. He was born with the ability to read minds, and for forty years he has lived with it as a burden rather than a gift. He has used it furtively, shamefully, to get by — ghostwriting academic papers for New York City students by reading their thoughts, conducting a series of failed relationships in which his knowledge of what the other person actually feels makes intimacy impossible. Now, in middle age, the gift is fading. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000490\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Silverberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49057926840563,"sku":"1110002990151","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8d6025af-e2c6-40c3-b2e3-fa2a87b1eadd.png?v=1778824931"},{"product_id":"the-women-of-brewster-place-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Women of Brewster Place (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNAYLOR, Gloria.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. 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It won the National Book Award for First Fiction in 1983 and was adapted into a television miniseries in 1989, produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey alongside Cicely Tyson and Robin Givens. It remains among the most significant American debut novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBrewster Place is a dead-end street in an unnamed northern city — once home to poor Irish and Italian immigrants, now the last resort of Black families with nowhere else to go, sealed at one end by a brick wall that the novel uses as its central image of confinement and exclusion. The novel is structured as seven interconnected stories, each centred on a woman who lives there: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who has sacrificed everything for a son who destroys her; Etta Mae Johnson, who has spent a life pursuing men and freedom and arrives in late middle age with neither; Kiswana Browne, who has left her prosperous family for political principle; Cora Lee, whose love of babies cannot survive their growing up; Lorraine and Theresa, the lesbian couple whose presence brings the neighbourhood's latent violence to the surface; and Lucielia Louise Turner, whose losses accumulate beyond what a person should be asked to bear. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000491\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gloria Naylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49057937686771,"sku":"1110002990168","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_1ea26634-bd5b-46dc-80c8-33b2a830baa7.png?v=1778825354"},{"product_id":"the-bookmans-tale-a-novel-of-obsession-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOVETT, Charlie.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full brown leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 352 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCharlie Lovett is a former antiquarian bookseller. He collected rare books for decades, specialising in Lewis Carroll, and served for more than ten years as writer in residence at a school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before his first novel became a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller in 2013. \u003cem\u003eThe Bookman's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e is in every sense a novel written from the inside: its procedures are accurate, its atmosphere — the particular quality of light and dust and anticipation in a good second-hand bookshop — is precisely rendered, and its central mystery is one that only a genuine book person could have conceived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePeter Byerly is a young American antiquarian bookseller, nine months a widower, who has come to Hay-on-Wye hoping that the bookshops of the world's most famous second-hand book town might offer some shelter from grief. In a watercolour tucked inside an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries he finds the face of his late wife, Amanda. He becomes convinced the painting cannot be a coincidence, and the novel follows his pursuit of the book's history backwards through time: from 1995 to the Victorian era, to the Restoration, to the Elizabethan period itself, and finally to the question of whether the document at the heart of the chain is what it appears to be — a piece of writing in Shakespeare's own hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel is structured across multiple time periods, with each section centering on a different owner of the same book as it passes from hand to hand across four centuries. It is at once a love story, a bibliographic mystery, and a meditation on the peculiar attachment that rare books inspire — the sense that in handling a very old book one is handling something that has passed through many pairs of hands, each of them vanished, each of them leaving some faint trace. For those who work in the rare book world the novel has an additional pleasure: its details are right. Lovett knows what he is writing about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine. \u003c\/strong\u003ePresenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000493\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlie Lovett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49057973240051,"sku":"1110002990182","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_180db3c2-74fe-46d2-8d50-db080ef10fd0.png?v=1778826456"},{"product_id":"the-tin-roof-blowdown-a-dave-robicheaux-novel-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBURKE, James Lee.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full dark brown leather. Spine with three raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Elaborate gilt stamping to covers and spine. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 373 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJames Lee Burke (b. 1936) was born in Houston and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, the landscape of flat water, live oak, sugarcane, and Spanish moss that saturates every page of the Dave Robicheaux series. He is widely regarded as one of the finest prose stylists working in crime fiction — a writer whose sentences carry the weight of Faulkner and the moral gravity of Flannery O'Connor, and who uses the conventions of the detective novel as a vehicle for sustained meditation on violence, memory, race, and the specific textures of Louisiana life. He has won Edgar Awards for \u003cem\u003eBlack Cherry Blues\u003c\/em\u003e (1990) and \u003cem\u003eCimarron Rose\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), and has received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tin Roof Blowdown\u003c\/em\u003e is the sixteenth novel in the Robicheaux series. It opens in late August 2005, in the hours after Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Dave Robicheaux, sheriff's detective for Iberia Parish, is deployed to New Orleans as the city drowns. Into this landscape Burke places his plot: two young Black looters shot dead under disputed circumstances; a third subsequently tortured and killed; a morphine-addicted priest caught between his vows and his addiction; two serial rapists operating in the darkness of the blackout; and a vigilante whose methods may be indistinguishable from those of the criminals he hunts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel was written and published in the same year as the events it describes, giving it an immediacy unusual in Burke's work. Critics recognised it as among his finest, a novel in which the magnitude of the real event had pressed his characteristic themes — the persistence of evil, the inadequacy of justice, the small human acts of courage that occur in the absence of law — into sharper relief than any invented catastrophe could have achieved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000495\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Lee Burke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070178500851,"sku":"1110002990205","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_14c8b544-75b6-4229-a39c-5d734e0cc654.png?v=1779063784"},{"product_id":"the-blind-assassin-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Blind Assassin (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eATWOOD, Margaret.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Blind Assassin.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. xiii, 521, [ii]pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published Toronto: McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart; New York: Nan A. Talese\/Doubleday, 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMargaret Atwood (b. 1939) has produced one of the most sustained and distinguished bodies of work in contemporary literature: novels, poetry, short fiction, and criticism spanning six decades and encompassing an extraordinary range of form and subject, from the dystopian speculative fiction of \u003cem\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e to the Victorian pastiche of \u003cem\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/em\u003e to the ecological trilogy of MaddAddam. She is the recipient of the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Pinter Prize, among many others, and is widely regarded as one of the essential writers of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Blind Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e won the Booker Prize in 2000, and it opens with one of the great first sentences in modern fiction: \u003cem\u003e\"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.\"\u003c\/em\u003e What follows is a novel of extraordinary structural ingenuity, built from four interlocking narrative layers. In the outermost frame, Iris Chase Griffin — eighty-two years old, in deteriorating health, living in a decaying Ontario town — writes her memoirs, working backwards through a long and far from exemplary life. Within her account is a novel called \u003cem\u003eThe Blind Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e, published after Laura Chase's death under Laura's name and subsequently the subject of a devoted cult following. Within that novel, two unnamed lovers — a woman and a man on the run, meeting in dingy rented rooms — construct a pulp science fiction story about a blind assassin on a distant planet. And woven through all of it are newspaper clippings from the 1930s and 1940s, tracking the public surface of the Chase family's history while the memoirs reveal its private substance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe architecture is immaculate, and it serves a purpose beyond formal display: the nested structure enacts the novel's central concerns, which are the relationship between public and private versions of a life, the ways in which women's stories have been told by others or not told at all, and the specific cruelties that affluent Canadian society visited on women of Iris's generation. The disclosure that the novel works towards arrives with the force of something that has been visible throughout and only now becomes entirely legible. It is Atwood's finest novel, and in a career of remarkable consistency, that is a considerable statement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some minor markings along gilt edges; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000496\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margaret Atwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070277198067,"sku":"1110002990212","price":160.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_461d0cd4-4e35-4e75-bcff-53cbb963e472.png?v=1779255688"},{"product_id":"helgas-diary-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Helga's Diary (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWEISS, Helga\u003c\/strong\u003e (intro. Francine Prose; trans. Neil Bermel). \u003cem\u003eHelga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 248pp. 16 colour paintings and 12 photographs throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the special numbered limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company, 2013. Translated from the Czech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHelga Weiss (b. 1929) was eleven years old when Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, and she began keeping a diary almost immediately. She wrote in school exercise books, in pencil, recording what she saw around her with the particular combination of a child's directness and a precociously sharp observational intelligence. In December 1941, she and her parents were deported to Terezín — the concentration camp established within the walls of an old Habsburg garrison town in Bohemia — where they would remain for three years. Before her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, her uncle bricked the diary into a wall to preserve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe diary was published in Czech in 1995 and in English translation for the first time in 2013. The \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e described it as \"the most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank.\" The comparison is apt in some respects and instructive in others: where Anne Frank wrote in hiding, with the knowledge that discovery meant death, Weiss wrote from within the camp itself, under conditions of deprivation and fear that the diary documents with an immediacy that is at times almost unbearable. The \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e observed that the young Helga \"responds to hardship with indignation and defiance, maintaining a sharp sense of observation while trying to make sense of the upheaval and suffering she sees.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very mild markings along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000498\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helga Weiss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070292730099,"sku":"1110002990236","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_2113577b-fcb9-4e6c-9589-bdbc71ddcbf8.png?v=1779065865"},{"product_id":"wild-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Wild (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRAYED, Cheryl.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Cover with gilt mountain scene. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 315 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special dedication page tipped in by the publisher. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the spring of 1995, Cheryl Strayed was twenty-six years old, recently divorced, intermittently using heroin, and four years on from the death of her mother from lung cancer at forty-five — a loss from which she had not recovered and did not know how to recover. On something between an impulse and a conviction she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail alone. She had never backpacked before. She bought a pack so large and heavy that she could barely lift it, filled it with equipment she had never used, and set out from the Mojave Desert with the intention of walking north for eleven hundred miles to the Oregon-Washington border. She called the pack \"Monster.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2012, is the account of those ninety-four days. It is simultaneously a travel memoir, a grief memoir, and a memoir of self-reconstruction — the story of what happened to Strayed on the trail, and the story, told in counterpoint, of everything that had happened to her before she got there. Her mother's illness and death, her own marriage and its dissolution, the period of dissolution that followed — all of it is rendered with a directness and emotional precision that made the book an immediate bestseller and an Oprah's Book Club selection. It spent years on the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller list and has sold millions of copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Pacific Crest Trail runs from the Mexican border at Campo, California, to the Canadian border at Manning Park, British Columbia — 2,650 miles in total. Strayed hiked the central section, through the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range, alone, often without other hikers for days at a time, through snow and desert and the particular silence of the high country. What the walk did to her, and what she came to understand through it, is not reducible to a formula; the book resists the consolation of the transformative journey narrative even as it tells one, and that resistance is what has given it its durability. The 2014 film adaptation directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, with Reese Witherspoon in the lead role and a screenplay by Nick Hornby, brought the story to a further audience while leaving the book entirely intact as the primary work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000499\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cheryl Strayed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070301446387,"sku":"1110002990243","price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_9ca18c8e-ef8c-4900-b4f6-c395aca3f865.png?v=1779066252"},{"product_id":"a-person-of-interest-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"A Person of Interest (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHOI, Susan.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eA Person of Interest.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. 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Born in Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish-American mother, she studied at Yale and Cornell, and has published five novels over twenty-five years. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), her second novel — a fictionalised account of the Patty Hearst kidnapping — was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. \u003cem\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), her fifth, won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Easton Press edition of \u003cem\u003eA Person of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e was produced in 2014, five years before that recognition; it now carries the additional weight of a signed copy by a National Book Award laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Person of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e draws on two of the most unsettling episodes in late twentieth-century American public life: the seventeen-year campaign of the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, who mailed package bombs to scientists, mathematicians, and academics between 1978 and 1995; and the case of Wen Ho Lee, the Taiwanese-American physicist at Los Alamos who in 1999 was accused of passing nuclear secrets to China, held in solitary confinement for nine months, and ultimately cleared of all but one minor charge. From these two cases Choi constructed a novel about suspicion, guilt, and the way in which a life's accumulation of private failures can suddenly become publicly legible in the worst possible way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLee — the suggestive surname is the only name by which the novel's protagonist is known — is an ageing Chinese-American mathematics professor at a mid-tier Midwestern university, solitary and bitter after two failed marriages, when the office next to his is destroyed by a mail bomb that kills his colleague. Lee is not the target. He is, however, in proximity to the target, and proximity is enough. As the investigation proceeds he receives a letter from an unidentified figure claiming to be a former colleague, and the novel unspools, in alternating present-tense investigation and past-tense flashback, the history of a friendship destroyed by betrayal and the long consequences of a particular moral failure. The title's law enforcement phrase applies to the narrative in every sense: Lee is the person of interest to the investigators, to the bomber, to the reader, and ultimately to himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel was a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000500\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Choi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070308425971,"sku":"1110002990250","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_15f1e43c-39ef-47ea-a5ea-99a7798bbad8.png?v=1779066543"},{"product_id":"middlesex-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Middlesex (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEUGENIDES, Jeffrey.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMiddlesex.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e8vo. Full grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJeffrey Eugenides (b. 1960) was born in Detroit of Greek-American and Anglo-Irish descent, the combination of inheritances that provided the biographical raw material for his second novel. His first, \u003cem\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), had established him immediately as one of the more original voices in American fiction; \u003cem\u003eMiddlesex\u003c\/em\u003e, when it finally appeared nine years later, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and France's Prix Médicis, was selected for Oprah's Book Club, and has since sold more than three million copies. The \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love.\" It was ranked eighteenth on the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e readers' list of the hundred best books of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel's narrator, Cal Stephanides, opens with the declaration: \"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.\" Cal has a rare genetic condition — 5-alpha-reductase deficiency — that causes intersex development, a condition inherited from a recessive gene carried through three generations of the Stephanides family. To trace the origin of that gene, the novel must go back to the beginning: to Desdemona and Lefty Stephanides, Cal's grandparents, who were brother and sister, who fled Smyrna during the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, who reinvented themselves as cousins on the boat to America, and who settled in the Greek community of Detroit during Prohibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFrom there the novel traces the family through three generations and across the major upheavals of American twentieth-century history — Prohibition and the Ford assembly line, the Detroit race riots of 1967, the Vietnam era — before arriving at Cal's own story: a childhood as Callie, an adolescent discovery of an identity that the medical establishment and the social world around her cannot accommodate, and an eventual self-determined emergence as Cal. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000501\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Eugenides","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070329397491,"sku":"1110002990267","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8d4b711c-9bb9-44b0-aedf-2b76034c9c92.png?v=1779066779"},{"product_id":"burr-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Burr (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVIDAL, Gore.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eBurr: A Novel.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full black leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt decorations to spine and covers. All edges gilt. Peach silk moiré endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. [viii], 430 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity and edition card.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Random House, 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGore Vidal (1925–2012) — born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the grandson of a blind Oklahoma senator whose papers he read aloud as a child and whose political world he absorbed before he had a name for it — produced over the course of his career one of the most sustained and ambitious projects in American historical fiction: seven novels, collectively titled \u003cem\u003eNarratives of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, tracing the history of the United States from the Revolution through the Second World War. \u003cem\u003eBurr\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1973 and the first in the sequence chronologically though not in order of composition, was a finalist for the National Book Award and remains the most widely read of the seven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAaron Burr (1756–1836) was the third Vice President of the United States, the man who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, on 11 July 1804, and was subsequently tried for treason — acquitted, but politically destroyed — before spending years in European exile and finally returning to New York to live out a long, impoverished old age practising law. He was, depending on who was asked, a brilliant man wronged by his enemies, or the most dangerous person ever to hold high office in the United States. Hamilton held the second view; Jefferson, who despised Hamilton, held a version of the first; history has generally followed Hamilton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eVidal's novel holds neither view and both. The outer narrative is supplied by Charlie Schuyler, a young journalist in New York in 1833 who becomes Burr's law clerk and, at Burr's direction, begins secretly transcribing the old man's recollections of his life. What Burr recalls — Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, the Revolution, the duel, the treason trial, the years in Europe — is rendered with Vidal's characteristic combination of exhaustive historical research and gleeful irreverence. The Founding Fathers as Burr remembers them are vain, scheming, sexually complicated, financially precarious men who happened to be present at the creation of something larger than themselves. The irony is never merely satirical: Vidal's Burr genuinely loved his country and was destroyed by it, and the novel's comedy and its melancholy are inseparable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBurr\u003c\/em\u003e is the first volume of the \u003cem\u003eNarratives of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e series, which continues with \u003cem\u003e1876\u003c\/em\u003e (1976), \u003cem\u003eLincoln\u003c\/em\u003e (1984), \u003cem\u003eEmpire\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eHollywood\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), \u003cem\u003eWashington D.C.\u003c\/em\u003e (1967), and \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/em\u003e (2000). 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000503\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gore Vidal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070342766835,"sku":"1110002990281","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_4f22eb5f-f43e-4b04-bc06-d797d17b88dc.png?v=1779067401"},{"product_id":"the-confessions-of-nat-turner-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Confessions of Nat Turner (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTYRON, William.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Confessions of Nat Turner.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 428 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Random House, 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWilliam Styron (1925–2006) was born in Newport News, Virginia, and spent his career as one of the major novelists of his generation — a southerner in the tradition of Faulkner who had absorbed that influence without being overwhelmed by it, and whose work ranged across the full spectrum of twentieth-century American catastrophe: slavery, the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, and the internal catastrophe of severe depression. \u003cem\u003eThe Confessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1967, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 and the William Dean Howells Medal, and immediately became one of the most debated novels in American literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNat Turner (1800–1831) was an enslaved man in Southampton County, Virginia, who in August 1831 led the most sustained and deadly slave revolt in American history, killing approximately fifty-five white men, women, and children before being captured and hanged. The historical record available to Styron was sparse: a pamphlet dictated by Turner to his lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray in the weeks before his execution, known as \u003cem\u003eThe Confessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/em\u003e, and the fragmentary documentary traces left by a man whose interior life his society had no interest in recording. From this material Styron constructed a first-person novel, narrated by Turner in the weeks between capture and execution, that attempted to render from the inside the consciousness of a man who had organised and carried out an act of extraordinary violence in the name of liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel was immediately acclaimed by mainstream literary culture — the Pulitzer Prize was announced almost simultaneously with its publication — and immediately attacked by Black critics, writers, and historians who argued that a white Virginian had no right to appropriate Turner's voice, and that the version of Turner Styron produced distorted the historical record in ways that served the assumptions of white liberal culture rather than the truth of Black experience. Ten Black writers published a collective response, \u003cem\u003eWilliam Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond\u003c\/em\u003e (1968), that remains among the most significant acts of literary-political critique in American letters. The argument it initiated has not been resolved and shows no sign of being resolved; the novel remains one of the most contested works of American fiction, and also one of the most formally ambitious. Signed copies carry the additional significance of a posthumous signature, Styron having died in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine. \u003c\/strong\u003ePresenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000504\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Styron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070357512435,"sku":"1110002990298","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_685cc624-9249-4567-9dcb-b5c936baefd1.png?v=1779067751"},{"product_id":"the-emperor-of-all-maladies-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Emperor of all Maladies (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMUKHERJEE, Siddhartha.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e8vo. Full green-grey leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Scribner, 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSiddhartha Mukherjee (b. 1970) was born in New Delhi, studied at Stanford, took his DPhil at Oxford researching cancer-causing viruses, and completed his MD at Harvard Medical School. He has practised as an oncologist at Columbia University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, published extensively in \u003cem\u003eNature\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and has since \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/em\u003e written \u003cem\u003eThe Laws of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eThe Gene: An Intimate History\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and \u003cem\u003eThe Song of the Cell\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), establishing himself as the most distinguished writer working at the intersection of oncology, genetics, and literary nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/em\u003e began, Mukherjee has said, as a response to a patient's demand: \"I'm willing to go on fighting, but I need to know what it is that I'm battling.\" The book he wrote in answer is one of the great works of American nonfiction of the twenty-first century: a biography not of a person but of a disease, tracing the history of cancer from its first documented identification by the Egyptian physician Imhotep more than four thousand years ago through the epic and often brutal interventions of twentieth-century medicine — radical mastectomy, high-dose chemotherapy, radiation — to the molecular biology that finally began to reveal the nature of what cancer actually is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion, and the combination produces writing of unusual power. The history he tells is not only a history of science but of the human beings who made and suffered from that science: the oncologist Sidney Farber, whose obsession with curing childhood leukaemia launched the era of chemotherapy; Mary Lasker, the socialite and lobbyist who turned cancer research into a national political cause; the patients whose testimonies frame the contemporary sections of the book. The \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e noted that it \"takes some nerve to echo the first line of Anna Karenina and infer that the story of a disease is capable of bearing a Tolstoyan treatment — but that is, breathtakingly, what Mukherjee pulls off.\"\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe book won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the inaugural PEN\/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. 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The programme was organised by the Children's Aid Society, founded by the social reformer Charles Loring Brace, who believed that removing children from the corrupting environment of the city and placing them in the moral clarity of agricultural life was the most effective form of social intervention available. For many of the children — known thereafter as orphan train riders — the reality was more complicated and more brutal than that proposition suggests. 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Seventeen-year-old Molly Ayer, a Penobscot Indian who has spent her life in the foster care system, is sentenced to community service — cleaning out Vivian's attic — as an alternative to juvenile detention. As the two women work through the contents of those trunks, the novel moves between the Depression-era Midwest of Vivian's youth and the contemporary Maine of Molly's present, finding in both the same fundamental experience: the loss of family, the search for belonging, and the contingency of the identity we construct from what survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel became a number one \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller and has since been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities, and schools as a \"One Book, One Read\" selection across the United States. Richard Russo described Kline as \"a relentless storyteller\" whose \"narrative line is too taut\" to resist. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000511\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christina Baker Kline","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070413152499,"sku":"1110002990366","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_0ad0414a-874f-4ac8-98e6-9161b17255f5.png?v=1779069782"},{"product_id":"white-teeth-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"White Teeth (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSMITH, Zadie.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhite Teeth.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full blue-grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents, and \"SIGNED EDITION\" lettered on hub. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 448 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eZadie Smith (b. 1975) grew up in Willesden, north-west London, the daughter of an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at King's College, Cambridge, where she began the novel that would become \u003cem\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e — negotiating a £250,000 advance on the basis of its first eighty pages while still a student. She was twenty-four years old when the book was published. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Best First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Betty Trask Prize; it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize; and it was included in \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It remains one of the most acclaimed debut novels in recent British literary history, and the work against which everything Smith has written since — \u003cem\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNW\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fraud\u003c\/em\u003e — has been measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel is set in Willesden and follows three families across fifty years. Archie Jones, an unremarkable English everyman, and Samad Miah Iqbal, a Bangladeshi-British restaurateur, are friends forged in the bizarre circumstances of the last months of the Second World War. Their friendship persists into the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, as their families grow, collide, and entangle. Samad's tormented decision to send one of his twin sons to Bangladesh to be raised in a traditional Islamic environment — while keeping the other, Millat, in London — sends consequences rippling through the subsequent decades of the novel in ways neither father nor son could anticipate. The Chalfens, a white liberal intellectual family of Jewish descent, provide a third strand, representing a certain kind of English self-satisfaction that the novel regards with the same affectionate mercilessness it applies to everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhat Smith produced from this material was a novel of enormous ambition and almost equally enormous confidence: comic and melancholy, formally intricate, alive to the absurdity of multiculturalism's contradictions without losing sympathy for any of its participants. The comparison most frequently invoked on publication was Salman Rushdie; others cited Dickens, John Irving, E. M. Forster. None of them was quite right, because the voice was immediately and recognisably Smith's own. 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If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000512\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zadie Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070417281267,"sku":"1110002990373","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_cddc4ba4-2f98-404d-b47c-03ecddf0fb70.png?v=1779070012"},{"product_id":"high-fidelity-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"High Fidelity (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHORNBY, Nick.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHigh Fidelity.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 323 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes bookplate adhered to front endpaper and publisher's note about the book. \u003c\/strong\u003eOriginally published London: Victor Gollancz, 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNick Hornby (b. 1957) established himself as one of the defining voices of his generation with \u003cem\u003eFever Pitch\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), the memoir about his life as an obsessive supporter of Arsenal Football Club that redrew the boundaries of what a man could admit to feeling about sport and, less overtly, about everything else. \u003cem\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1995, was his first novel and extended the same project into fiction: an investigation of a particular kind of English masculine emotional life, conducted with such precision and such sympathy that it was simultaneously hilarious and mortifying to anyone who recognised it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRob Fleming owns Championship Vinyl, a failing independent record shop in Holloway, North London. He is in his mid-thirties. His girlfriend Laura has just left him, moving upstairs to the flat of the unspeakable Ian. Rob responds in the only way that comes naturally to him: he makes lists. His all-time top five breakups. His all-time top five records for a Monday morning. His all-time top five Elvis Costello tracks. The lists are the novel's formal signature and its psychological argument: Rob uses them to impose order on experience, to transform feeling into ranking, to avoid the intimacy that actual engagement with another person requires. \u003cem\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how he is gradually, reluctantly forced to question whether the ordering of records and the ordering of one's emotional life are quite as similar as he has always assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel works in the tradition of the English comic novel — Hornby cites \u003cem\u003eLucky Jim\u003c\/em\u003e as an influence — but its comedy is of a specifically late-twentieth-century variety, rooted in popular culture, self-aware, and considerably more honest about its protagonist's failings than most comic novels dare to be. It was adapted into a film in 2000, directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack, with the setting transposed to Chicago; into a Broadway musical in 2006; and into a television series for Hulu in 2020, with the genders of the principal characters reversed and Zoë Kravitz as Rob. Hornby wrote the screenplay for \u003cem\u003eAn Education\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), which was nominated for an Academy Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some spotting along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine. Certificate of Authenticity and edition card not present with this copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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