{"title":"Rare Books - Fiction Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnearth timeless treasures in our Rare Books: Fiction Classics collection at Harry Hartog Bookseller. Featuring hard-to-find editions, vintage prints, and beautifully bound literary masterpieces, this curated selection is perfect for collectors and connoisseurs. Shop online or in-store to own a unique piece of literary history from iconic authors worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"children-of-dune","title":"Children of Dune (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHERBERT, Frank.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eChildren of Dune.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Victor Gollancz, 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e8vo. Original publisher's olive-green cloth. Lettering to spine in gilt. 444 pp. Original pictorial dust jacket. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, first printing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChildren of Dune\u003c\/em\u003e completes the original Dune trilogy, inarguably one of the most ambitious works of world-building in the history of science fiction. The series is set on the desert planet Arrakis, source of the substance that makes interstellar travel possible and the focus of an imperial struggle that Herbert uses to examine power, religion, ecology, and human consciousness with a seriousness and complexity rarely attempted in the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOn publication, \u003cem\u003eChildren of Dune\u003c\/em\u003e became the first science fiction novel to debut as a hardcover bestseller, and received a Hugo Award nomination in 1977. The Gollancz first UK edition is notably scarcer than its American counterpart and is increasingly difficult to find in any condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good in like jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dust jacket price-clipped; spine faded from the original blue-purple to pink, as is characteristic of this issue. Binding sound. Contents generally near fine. A few minor markings along foredge.\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\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003estore. 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","brand":"Frank Herbert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46902270296307,"sku":"1110002801174","price":350.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_220df003-7eb1-46c7-9aea-54224a57d731.png?v=1781503679"},{"product_id":"the-outsider","title":"The Outsider (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCAMUS, Albert.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Outsider.\u003c\/em\u003e Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction by Cyril Connolly. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSmall 8vo. Original grey-green cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Edward Bawden, unclipped (priced 6s. net). [ii], 104 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in English. First impression. Precedes the American edition published by Knopf.\u003c\/strong\u003e Connolly 94B.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eL'Étranger\u003c\/em\u003e was first published by Gallimard in German-occupied Paris in 1942, written by a twenty-eight-year-old Algerian-born writer who was then largely unknown. By the time Hamish Hamilton published this first English edition in 1946, Camus had joined the French Resistance and served as editor of the clandestine newspaper \u003cem\u003eCombat\u003c\/em\u003e. The novel arrived into English already carrying considerable weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe story is one of the most widely read of the twentieth century: Meursault, a French Algerian clerk, attends his mother's funeral without apparent grief, drifts into a love affair, becomes entangled in a friend's dispute, and kills an Arab man on a beach in blazing sun — an act he is subsequently unable to explain to anyone's satisfaction, including his own. The trial that follows condemns him less for the killing than for his refusal to perform the emotions society requires of him. Camus described this as a philosophy of the absurd: the confrontation between man's need for meaning and the universe's total silence on the subject. \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e ranked the novel first on its list of the 100 Books of the Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Hamish Hamilton edition is the first appearance of the novel in English. Stuart Gilbert's translation held the field for thirty years. The introduction by Cyril Connolly, who also included the book in his \u003cem\u003e100 Key Books of the Modern Movement\u003c\/em\u003e, is not present in the American edition. Edward Bawden's dust jacket design, characteristically spare and striking, depicts the Arab victim rather than the protagonist — an unusual decision for commercial publishing of the period, and one that remains quietly provocative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine in good dust jacket. \u003c\/strong\u003eJacket unclipped; some wear to extremities.\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\u003ePenrith\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","brand":"Albert Camus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46902306111731,"sku":"1110002801037","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/4e260036-706e-484e-96ca-f694ceefe8d1.png?v=1761779814"},{"product_id":"dead-cert","title":"Dead Cert. 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Original burgundy cloth hardcover with gilt inlay on spine in original unclipped dust jacket. Pages: 206. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 116%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eCondition: Dust jacket torn on upper and lower spine, portions missing. Hardcover boards in very good condition with slight markings on back. Foxing on front and paper and page edges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 116%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eAuthor’s debut novel. Dust jacket damaged, but book in excellent condition otherwise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 116%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 116%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-bidi-font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare books section in our Bondi store.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dick Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46902307094771,"sku":"1110002801150","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/20250417_102239.jpg?v=1744873321"},{"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. 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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":"the-asphalt-jungle","title":"The Asphalt Jungle (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION IN SCARCE UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. New \u003cem\u003eYork:\u003c\/em\u003e Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 8vo. Original publisher's pink decorative hardcover in original unclipped dust jacket. 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Largely free of foxing, a few minor age spots. Two previous owners signatures on front free end paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W R Burnett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046006931699,"sku":"1110002821219","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/Cover_2aed04b0-0d89-4ee0-b6a5-f85c8b251a44.png?v=1761797508"},{"product_id":"tales-of-hearsay-first-edition","title":"Tales of Hearsay (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition of Conrad's short stories. 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First editions of this work are arguably the scarcest and most collectible among all of Verne's works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel gave Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus to the literature of adventure and imagination, and in doing so helped to define a new kind of fiction in which the wonders of science and technology were not merely backdrop but the very substance of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFamously, Verne did not simply predict the submarine; he created a romanticism around the concept and his ideas had a hand in the later realisation of real submarines. The first nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1955, was named \u003cem\u003eNautilus\u003c\/em\u003e in honour of his vessel. 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The woodcut illustrations after the drawings of Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou — two of the foremost French illustrators of the period — were prepared for the French first edition and used unchanged here, and they remain among the most evocative images in the history of illustrated fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis copy has been rebound into a later quarter morocco binding, sympathetically executed and well maintained, which has kept the contents in excellent condition. A Christmas gift inscription from a father to his son in 1949 adds a further layer of human history to a copy already rich in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good.\u003c\/strong\u003e Quarter charcoal morocco well preserved, spine gilt bright and bold. 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First edition, first printing of Carol's beloved Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. Oxenbury is one of the most significant British children's illustrators of the past half-century. She's a two-time Kate Greenaway Medal winner — the premier British award for children's illustration — and she won the second specifically for this Alice in 1999.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition thus, first printing. \u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon:\u003c\/em\u003e Walker Books, (1999).\u003c\/span\u003e 4to. Original publisher's hardcover in original unclipped dust jacket. pp.207.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBound in cream boards with a colour-illustrated vignette of Alice and the Rabbit to the cover. Spine lettered in black and illustrated in colour, with illustrated vignette of 5 of Hearts. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear Fine in very good\/near fine dust jacket. \u003c\/strong\u003eA beautifully preserved copy with Oxenbury's neat ink signature to the title below her name. Dust jacket is unclipped (£14.99). There are some markings here and there with a small stain to the crease of the upper front fold in. The spine head shows some very minor creasing and the spine is a touch shelf faded. The hardcover bindings are clean and bright, well preserved. A small bump is present to the lower front corner. Binding is tight and square. Contents fine, clean, bright and bold throughout. One small and faint marking to upper foredge. Overall, a beautiful and rare signed copy of this beloved edition of a timeless classic.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis book is currently on display in the rare book section of our \u003cstrong\u003eBondi \u003c\/strong\u003estore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIf you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lewis Carroll \u0026 Helen Oxenbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48671062130931,"sku":"1110002940309","price":350.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_b988658d-0a3d-4f63-bff7-ed1087fdd3e1.png?v=1773809232"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/collections\/Rare_Fiction_Classics_Cover_Image.png?v=1781588927","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/collections\/rare-books-fiction-classics.oembed?page=6","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}