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Octavo, pen drawings by Porter, light blue endpapers, original black cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, the cartoonist Les Tanner's copy with his signature.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by Porter for Tanner: 'Les — I loveya. HP.'

Demy octavo, original oatmeal cloth with crisp colour silk-screen printed dustwrapper, John Gawsworth's copy with his 'Realm of Redonda' bookplate.
First edition. An excellent association copy of Porter's first volume of poetry, inscribed by Porter in the Surrey Hotel (London) for the poet John Gawsworth. Porter writes about drinking at the Surrey and Gawsworth in his third volume of autobiography The Extra (1975). For 'a fiver' Gawsworth 'honoured' Porter as the 'Duke of Gippslandia'.

Octavo, very good in bright original royal blue cloth.
January 1950 reprint (first published in December 1949). Novel set in a boot factory in Collingwood during the Depression.
Inscribed and signed by Marshall. Scarce.

Octavo, pale foxing on endpapers and preliminaries, very good in original green cloth (sunned on spine).
First edition. Signed by the author for the novelist Marjorie Barnard.
While the novel was published by A. & R., Mann offered the manuscript first to the short-lived Endeavour Press (1933-35).
Out of print and decidedly scarce.

Octavo, original plum cloth (bit faded on spine).
First edition ‒ cloth issue. Inscribed & signed by the author. Scarce.

Quarto, illustrations, minor offsetting on endpapers, original oatmeal cloth with an unusually crisp example of the pictorial dustwrapper.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author.