Shirley Hazzard papers, 1920s-2016

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Series XI: Books, 1725-2010

These books were originally part of the book library that was still in Hazzard's apartment at the time of her death in 2016. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Curator of Literature selected a small number of books to be included with Hazzard's papers at the Library, and these are listed in the container list. The vast majority of the book library - 299 books - became part of the collections at the State Library of New South Wales, and some additional books became part of the collections at the New York Society Library.


Books Directly Related to Hazzard



Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Great Fire. London: Virago, 2003

Note from Hazzard on the title indicates that she bought this copy in Hong Kong on her return trip there in 2005.


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Transit of Venus. London: Virago, 1995, Reprinted 1998


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Transit of Venus. London: Virago, 2004


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963, Hardcover; typography, binding and jacket design by George Salter. Includes book jacket.

1 copy was removed from this collecton and cataloged for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Book Collection.


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Bay of Noon. London: Virago, 2005


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Countenance of Truth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1991


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. 1984 Boyer Lectures: Coming of Age in Australia Sydney: ABC Enterprises, 1985


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. People in Glass Houses. New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Evening of the Holiday. New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. People in Glass Houses. New York: Penguin Books, 1988


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. New York: Penguin Books, 1988


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Greene on Capri. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

2 copies; one is inscribed by Hazzard to Lowell Flanders.


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Defeat of An Ideal. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Evening of the Holiday. London: Virago, 2006


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Transit of Venus. New York: Penguin Books, 1980


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Bay of Noon. New York: Picador, 2004 or later


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Evening of the Holiday. New York: Penguin Books, 1988


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Introduction to Leopardi: A Study in Solitude by Iris Origo. Books & Co./Helen Marx Book, 1999


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. London: Virago, 2005


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Countenance of Truth. New York: Viking, 1990


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. London: Macmillan, 1963, Hardcover; no book jacket


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. People in Glass Houses. London: Virago, 2006


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Great Fire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Great Fire. London: Virago, 2003, Reprinted 2003

Hardcover, no jacket. Might be a mock-up copy as boards don't match spine.


Cloth-Bound Books from the Hazzard / Steegmuller Library

These are paperback books that have been bound in cloth bindings, most likely by the Steegmullers.


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Bay of Noon. Penguin Books, 1973


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. The Evening of the Holiday. Penguin Books, 1969, 2 copies, in different bindings.


Box 44 Hazzard, Shirley. People in Glass Houses. Penguin Books, 1970


Box 44 1988 Boyer Lectures. Postscripts., 1989



Box 46 American Academy of Arts and Letters. Proceeedings. Second Series, Number 52, 2001

Includes Hazzard's obituary of William Maxwell.


Box 46 Burns, Carole, ed. Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008



Box 44 Doubleday's Distinguished Prize Stories of O. Henry Awards 1988. New York: Doubleday, 1988


Box 44 Geering, R.G. Recent Fiction Australian Writers and Their Work. London: Oxford University Press, 1974

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 27 Geering, R.G. Recent Fiction--Correspondence with, 1974

Correspondence from Geering.



Box 46 Henderson, Anne. The Sydney Papers Volume 9, Number 4. Sydney: Sydney Publications Pty. Ltd., 1997 Spring


Box 46 Jennings, Kate. Snake. Melbourne: Minerva, 1996

Includes quote from Hazzard on the front cover. Includes letter from Jennings glued into front cover.


Box 46 The Real Reader's Quarterly. Slightly Foxed. No. 22, 2009 Summer


Box 46 Steegmuller, Francis. Apollinaire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963



Box 23 Folder 37 Steegmuller, Francis. Apollinaire--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1972, 1989-1999

Correspondence from Harry Ford, clippings, cards, etc.


Other Books from Hazzard's Library



Box 46 A Keepsake for Alfred A. Knopf., 1965

Inscribed by Alfred A. Knopf. Keepsake written and printed by various hands celebrating his fiftieth year as a book publisher.



Box 44 Acton, Harold. Peonies and Ponies. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950, Cloth bound for the Steegmuller's library

Inscribed by author.



Box 46 Auden, W.H. The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1962

Annotated.



Box 23 Folder 14 Auden, W.H. The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays--Program filed with, 1993

Program from event featuring Anthony Hecht.



Box 43 Bail, Murray. Holden's Performance. London: Faber and Faber, 1987

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 15 Bail, Murray. Holden's Performance--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1980, undated

Includes correspondence to/from Bail.



Box 42 Barzun, Jacques. Jacques Barzun on Writing, Editing, and Publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971

2 copies, one inscribed by author.


Box 42 Barzun, Jacques. Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers. New York: Harper & Row, 1975



Box 23 Folder 16-17 Barzun, Jacques. Jacques Barzun on Writing, Editing, and Publishing, Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers, and Follett's Modern American Usage--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1966, 1971-1975, 1999, 2 folders

Includes cards from Barzun.



Box 42 Clarke, Patricia and David Footman. In Memoriam: Archie 1904-1964. A Symposium. Privately Printed., 1966

2 copies.



Box 23 Folder 18-19 Clarke, Patricia and David Footman. In Memoriam: Archie 1904-1964. A Symposium--Correspondence, Clippings, and Photographs filed with, 1983-2005, 2 folders

Includes photographs of Archie Lyall.



Box 43 Colmer, John. Patrick White. London: Methuen, 1984

Inscribed by author.



Box 46 Colmer, John, ed. Appoaches to the Novel. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966

Inscribed by Colmer.



Box 23 Folder 20 Colmer, John, ed. Appoaches to the Novel--Item filed with

Article on Hazzard by Colmer.



Box 43 De Grazia, Sebastian. Of Time Work and Leisure. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1962

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 21 De Grazia, Sebastian. Of Time Work and Leisure--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1991, 2001-2002

Includes correspondence from Merritt N. Cootes.



Box 43 Dunstan, Don. Felicia: The Political Memoirs of Don Dunstan. South Melbourne: MacMillan, 1981

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 22 Dunstan, Don. Felicia: The Political Memoirs of Don Dunstan--Correspondence filed with, 1993-1997, undated

Correspondence from Dunstan; includes photographs.



Box 43 Dutton, Geoffrey. Out in the Open: An Autobiography. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1994

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 23 Dutton, Geoffrey. Out in the Open: An Autobiography--Clipping filed with, 1994


Box 23 Folder 34 Slessor, Kenneth. Geoffrey Dutton: A Biography--Dutton Letter Filed With, 1990



Box 42 Fahy, Everett, compiler. John Pope-Hennessy: A Bibliography. With a foreward by John Russell. New York: Metropolitian Museum of Art, The Ecco Press, 1986

Inscribed by Fahy and Russell, 1986.



Box 23 Folder 24 Fahy, Everett, compiler. John Pope-Hennessy: A Bibliography--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1986-1992, undated

Includes program on event related to the book.



Box 46 Follett, Wilson. Modern American Usage. Edited and completed by Jacques Barzun. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966

Inscribed by Barzun.



Box 23 Folder 16-17 Barzun, Jacques. Jacques Barzun on Writing, Editing, and Publishing, Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers, and Follett's Modern American Usage--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1966, 1971-1975, 1999, 2 folders

Includes cards from Barzun.



Box 46 Freemantle, Anne. Three-Cornered Heart. New York: Viking, 1971

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 25 Freemantle, Anne. Three-Cornered Heart--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1973-1979

Correspondence primarily from Freemantle.



Box 43 Garner, Helen. The First Stone. Sydney: Picador, 1995

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 26 Garner, Helen. The First Stone--Correspondence filed with, 1995, undated

Correspondence from Garner.



Box 43 Greene, Graham. Travels with My Aunt. New York: Viking, 1969

Has a few notes on title page.


Box 43 Harrison, Robert Pogue. The Dominion of the Dead. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003

Inscribed by author. Includes notes on inside cover, and a few annotations.



Box 23 Folder 28 Harrison, Robert Pogue. The Dominion of the Dead--Correspondence filed with, undated

Correspondence from Harrison.



Box 42 Hope, A.D. "Vivaldi, Bird and Angel, or Il Cardellino" from Collected Poems. Australia: Padana Press, undated

Inscribed by author.



Box 46 Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 29 Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1975-1994, undated

Includes correspondence to / from Kazin, with clippings, etc.



Box 43 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996

Annotated.



Box 23 Folder 30 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1986-2005

Includes postcard of Woolf from Trudie Schafer, clippings.



Box 42 Malamud, Bernard. Long Work, Short Life. Bennington, VT: Bennington Chapbooks in Literature, 1985

Inscribed by Ann Malamud, 1995.



Box 43 Malouf, David. The Conversations at Curlow Creek. New York: Pantheon, 1996

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 31 Malouf, David. The Conversations at Curlow Creek--Correspondence filed with, 1980, 1997

Correspondence from Malouf.



Box 43 Malouf, David. An Imaginary Life. London: George Braziller, 1978

Inscribed by author.


Box 43 Malouf, David. Neighbors in a Thicket: Poems by David Malouf. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1974

Inscribed by author.


Box 43 Malouf, David. Remembering Babylon. London: Chatto & Windus, 1997

Inscribed by author.


Box 43 Marr, David. Patrick White: A Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991

Includes notes on inside cover.



Box 23 Folder 41 Marr, David. Patrick White: A Life--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1981-1992

Includes correspondence from David Marr, Elizabeth Harrower, and others. Includes clippings.



Box 43 Woolf, Harry. The Transits of Venus. New York: Arno Press, 1981

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 42 Woolf, Harry. The Transits of Venus--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1981-2003

Includes correspondence from Woolf, as well as clippings and other materials.



Box 42 Ritchie, Alice. The Peacemakers. London: By Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928, Dust-cover fragile; foxed



Box 43 Stivens, Dal. The Unicorn and Other Tales. Sydney: Wild and Woolley, 1976

Inscribed by author.


Box 43 Slessor, Kenneth. Geoffrey Dutton: A Biography. Viking, 1991

Inscribed by Geoffrey Dutton.



Box 23 Folder 34 Slessor, Kenneth. Geoffrey Dutton: A Biography--Dutton Letter Filed With, 1990



Box 42 Stewart, Harold. Phoenix Wings. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1946, Dust cover fragile, torn


Box 42 Taylor, Elizabeth. At Mrs. Lippincote's. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946



Box 23 Folder 38 Taylor, Elizabeth. At Mrs. Lippincote's--Correspondence filed with, 1987

Correspondence from Virago Press on introduction to Virago Classics edition.



Box 46 Cary, Otis, ed. War-Wasted Asia: Letters, 1945-1946. Toyko: Kodansha International Ltd., 1973

Some annotations.


Box 46 Muir, Edward. An Autobiography. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1990

Some annotations.



Box 45 Stewarton. The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud, in a series of letters. New York: Brisban and Brannan, 1807


Box 45 Brontë, Charlotte. Shirley, A Tale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864


Box 45 De Foe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1839


Box 45 Florian. Fables de Florian. Paris: Dargent, 1806, Tome Premier


Box 45 Francklin, Thomas. The Tragedies of Sophocles from the Greek. London, 1766, 2 volumes


Box 45 Hergesheimer, Joseph. San Cristóbal de la Habana. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920


Box 45 Le Sage, Alain René. Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane Par Monsieur Le Sage... . Toulouse, 1788, 3 volumes, numbered 12, 34, 56


Box 45 Lessing. Lacoon. Translated with preface and notes by R. Hon. Sir Robert Phillimore, DCI. London: Macmillan, 1874


Box 45 Mallarmé, Stéphane. Poésies. Paris, 1928



Box 46 Selected Poems by Herman Melville Edit, with an Introduction by Robert Penn Warren. New York: Random House, 1970

Inscribed by Warren.



Box 23 Folder 39 Selected Poems by Herman Melville--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1974

Correspondence from Warren; postcard of Melville.



Box 46 Origo, Iris. Leopardi: A Study in Solitude. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953

Includes notes and annotations.



Box 45 Painter, George D. Proust: The Later Years. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965



Box 23 Folder 32 Painter, George D. Proust: The Later Years--Items filed with, circa 1984-2001

Clippings, postcards, gallery flier, etc.



Box 45 Percy, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. London, printed for Henry Washbourne, 1844, 3 volumes


Box 45 Provedi, Agostino. Relazione delle pubbliche feste date in Siena: negli ultimi cinque secoli fino alla venuta dei reali sovrani Ferdinando III ... e Maria Luisa Amalia ... sua real consorte. Sienna, 1791



Box 23 Folder 33 Provedi, Agostino. Relazione delle pubbliche feste date in Siena...--Card filed with, undated

Postcard of Sienna, from Wendy.



Box 45 Sanazzaro, Jacopo. L'Arcardia. Venice, 1725



Box 42 Spark, Muriel. A Muriel Spark Trio. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962

Inscribed by author.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. The Fanfarlo and Other Verses. Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952

Inscribed by author, 1963.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Memento Mori. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959

Inscribed by author, 1962.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962

Inscribed by author, 1962.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Robinson. London: Macmillan, 1958, reprinted 1972

Inscribed by author, 1982?


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. 2 By Muriel Spark. New York: Dell, 1964


Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963, Hardcover; typography, binding and jacket design by George Salter. Includes book jacket.

Inscribed by author, 1963. This copy was removed from this collecton and cataloged for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Book Collection.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. The Hothouse by the East River. London: Macmillan, 1973

Inscribed by author, 1982?


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. The Hothouse by the East River. London: Macmillan, 1973

Inscribed by author.


Spark, Muriel. The Mandelbaum Gate. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965, Hardcover; typography, binding and jacket design by George Salter. Includes book jacket.

Inscribed by author, 1965. This copy was removed from this collecton and cataloged for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Book Collection.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Collected Stories: 1. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968

Inscribed by author.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Territorial Rights. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1979

Inscribed by author, 1982?


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. The Abbess of Crewe. New York: Viking, 1974

Inscribed by author, 1982?



Box 23 Folder 35 Spark, Muriel. The Abbess of Crewe--Items filed with, 1974, undated

Covering letter from Viking; clipping.



Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Doctors of Philosophy: A Play London: Macmillan, 1970

Inscribed by author.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Voices at Play Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962

Inscribed by author, 1962.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Collected Poems: 1. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968

Inscribed by author, 1968?



Box 23 Folder 36 Spark, Muriel. Collected Poems: 1--Clippings filed with, 1996, undated



Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Memento Mori. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1973

Inscribed by author.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. The Driver's Seat. London: Macmillan, 1970

Inscribed by author, 1982?


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Avon, After 1958

Inscribed by author.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel. The Very Fine Clock. Drawings by Edward Gorey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968

Inscribed by author.


Box 42 Spark, Muriel and Derek Stanford. Emily Brontë New York: Coward-McCann, 1966


Box 42 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark: The Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Inscribed by author.


Box 42 Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Viking, 2006

This is an advanced, uncorrected proof.



Box 43 Wheelock, John Hall. The Gardner and Other Poems. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961

Inscribed by author.



Box 23 Folder 40 Wheelock, John Hall. The Gardner and Other Poems--Correspondence, etc. filed with, 1963-1972

Correspondence from Wheelock, and related materials.



Box 12 Books by Flaubert, Maurois, and Dictionary (with Jacques Barzun card), 5 items

with Jacques Barzun's business card.


Box 12 Folder 3 Pamphlets and small publications

Items inscribed to Hazzard.