Mount of Alex

01/08/2026

Come browse with us at The Melbourne Rare Book Fair.
Wilson Hall Uni Melb
July 30 - August 1

ANZAAB

30/06/2026

Thanking for this lovely story about us in The Monthly, April 2026

The delights of mountaineering prose and poetry more than make up for leaving mountain-climbing till too late in life

22/03/2026

In keeping with 10 days of all things art , here is a tiny selection of our books about Australian art....including some very locals.

Franklin, Adrian. The Making of MONA. Penguin (Special Edition). Hardcover.

Splatt, William & Burston, Barbara. Masterpieces of Australian Painting. Viking O’Neil, Melbourne. Hardcover, dust jacket.

Bradford. Typically Australian. Hardcover, colour illustrated boards in matching dust jacket.

Makin, Jeff. 100 Years of Australian Drawing. Bay Books / Macmillan. Hardcover, illustrated dust jacket.

Makin, Jeff. Critical Moments: Essays and Reviews on Art in Australia. Macmillan. Hardcover, dust jacket.

Latham. Love It and Leave It: Australians in Creative Diaspora. Sun Books. Trade paperback.

Deutscher and Hackett. Deutscher and Hackett, March 2010 (auction catalogue).

Nunn, Matthew. Street Art Uncut. Craftsman House / Australian Galleries. Trade paperback.

Baldessin, George. Paradox and Persuasion. Australian Galleries / Harriet Edquist. Trade paperback.

Ludwig Becker. Macmillan, Melbourne. Hardcover.

Thomas, David. Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty. Macmillan. Hardcover.

Cox, Graham. The Journey Begins. Craftsman House. Hardcover.

McGregor, Ken. Fred Cress: Whispers. Macmillan. Hardcover.

02/11/2025

Vintage Oxford children’s classics 📚✨ Including the magical "Tom’s Midnight Garden", adventures of "Pippi in the South Seas", Rosemary Sutcliff’s historic tales, Nan Chauncy, "The Black Lamp" and "Beat of the City". Fantastic cover art. Selling as a collection or individual books. Great gift idea for children & nostalgics alike.

09/09/2025

A small collection of books on Australian First Nations Arts and Culture, some beautiful new additions to add to our shop stock. Midawarr / Harvest is a personal favourite, showing the collaborative works of & Mulkun Wirrpanda, which was on display at the National Gallery a few years back. The original works are enormous and span a liminal space that is both earthy & ethereal. The book features centre fold outs of the largest work.

07/08/2025

We are all in the dumps with Jack and Guy : two nursery rhymes with pictures

By Maurice Sendak, author, illustrator, 1993.

Among Sendak's most controversial works, others including the banned 'In the Night Kitchen' & his sensual illustrations of Melville.

This book deals with themes of homelessness, kidnapping, institutional abuse, and social inequity. It was created partly in response to the AIDs epidemic in the USA, and is replete with analogy, double meanings and social comment. In the second image here we see clear reference to a well known oligarch's tower.

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01/08/2025

31/07/2025

The 55th Melbourne Rare Book Fair is opened & here we are!

31st July - 2nd August 2025
Wilson Hall, The University of Melbourne
rarebookfair.com

Part of Melbourne Rare Book Week
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21/07/2025

A Selection of Gollancz SF Classics from Victor Gollancz. The publishing house, strongly associated with Science Fiction and Fantasy literature was originally founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz, and became a prominent UK publisher of SF, particularly through its imprint Gollancz Science Fiction. Prominent UK and US authors published under the imprint include Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, J.G.Ballard and Ursula Le Guin, often in the distinctive yellow jackets.

Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris,
The Snail on the Slope.
1st UK edition, 1980. Translated by Alan Meyers.
$350

Heinlein, Robert A.,
Time for the Stars
New edition, 1985.
$50

Mitchison, Naomi,
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
1st edition, 1962.
$250