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There are 276 books in this catalogue.
Bralgah : a Legend
Kate, R.
Book Number: 66291
ISBN: 
Publisher: Jindyworobak Publication, Adelaide 1944.
8vo. stapled wraps. 18pp. Very good, covers & endpapers toned.
Price: $35.00


Selected Poems: 1970-1989.
Adamson, Robert
Book Number: 57113
ISBN: 0702223239
Publisher: University of Queensland Press 1990
8vo. softcover. 267pp. Very good.
Price: $25.00


A Sunburnt Country (My Country)
Mackellar, Dorothea, Paintings by Bill Beavan
Book Number: 68108
ISBN: 0727009583
Publisher: Rigby 1979 reprint
4to. hardcover. 63pp. Illustrated with colour plates, includes History and notes of the poem, My Country, Notes on the Plates. Very good some foxing on endpapers & half-title. / Good creased d/w with faded spine and some tears.
Price: $18.00


A Shropshire Lad
Housman, A. E. Illustrated by Piers Browne
Book Number: 67951
ISBN: 1852530715
Publisher: Ashford Press Shedfield 1988,
Large 4to. hardcover in slipcase. 93 leaves, b/w & colour illus, one folding. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $25.00


Wordsworth and other Studies
Selincourt, Ernest de
Book Number: 67925
ISBN: 
Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1947.
8vo. hardcover. 206pp. Very good. / no d/w.
Price: $15.00


Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Brett , R. L. and Jones, A. R. ( Edited by). [Wordsworth]; [Coleridge]
Book Number: 67806
ISBN: 041829720x
Publisher: Methuen & Co., London, 1978.
8vo. softcover. 345pp. Very good+, light foxing to top edge of text-block. The text of the 1798 edition with the additional 1800 poems and the prefaces, edited with introduction, notes and appendices.
Price: $15.00


Shelley: A Life Story
Blunden, Edmund
Book Number: 67804
ISBN: 
Publisher: Readers Union/Collins, London, 1948.
8vo. hardcover. 320pp. index. Very good. / no d/w.
Price: $9.00


The Glad Season.
Gifford, Kenneth H.
Book Number: 67742
ISBN: 
Publisher: Arura Writers, Melbourne, 1944.
8vo. hardcover. 24pp. Very good, stamp, owner's signature and price mark on fep. Toning to endpapers & covers. . Good- d/w chipped on edges. Arura Writers No. 2. Edition of 1,000.
Price: $15.00


The Hexagon
Porter, Hal
Book Number: 67748
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1968.
8vo. hardcover. 55pp. Very good, toning and light foxing to endpapers. / Good d/w, with some tears and small chips on edges.
Price: $20.00


Rhyming Epitome of the Colonial History of Australia
Law, J. C.
Book Number: 67719
ISBN: 
Publisher: George B. Philip & Son, Sydney 1928.
8vo. stapled wraps. 96pp. Good, missing title page, bottom front corner creased.
Price: $55.00


The Esdaile Notebook. A Volume of Early Poems
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Edited By Kenneth Neill Cameron
Book Number: 67665
ISBN: 
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited., London, 1964.
8vo. hardcover. 378pp. index. Very good, fading to cover. / Good+ d/w with chipped spine ends.
Price: $20.00


Coleridge. Darker Reflections
Holmes, Richard
Book Number: 60546
ISBN: 9780007204564
Publisher: Oxford ; New York 1982
8vo softcover 620pp very good+. This biographical study describes Coleridge's work as a poet, philosopher and literary critic. Holmes analyzes the man and his work, as a struggling writer, as a thinker and theorist of Romanticism, and as an exemplary figure.
Price: $8.00


Jeffers Country - The Seed Plots of Robinson Jeffers' Poetry
Jeffers, Robinson
Book Number: 67542
ISBN: 091202013x
Publisher: The Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco, 1971.
8vo. softcover. 78pp. b/w illus. Good, crease at bottom of spine, covers soiled.
Price: $12.00


Poems: 1934-1944
Mudie, Ian
Book Number: 67421
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Georgian Press, Melbourne, 1945.
8vo. hardcover. 121pp. Very good. / Very good d/w. Two news clippings tipped-in by previous owner at rear.
Price: $18.00


RIPPLES ON THE WANNON
DUNN, Stan
Book Number: 24155
ISBN: 
Publisher: Warrnambool. The author. 1979
Oblong 8vo. Paperback. Illustrated with photo's and line drawings. Very good. Signed by Author. Humorous verse
Price: $6.00


Your Old Battalion – War and Peace Verses
Pryce, Henry Weston
Book Number: 67177
ISBN: 
Publisher: Cornstalk Publishing Company, Australia 1926.
8vo. hardcover. 190pp. Very good, some foxing, mainly to endpapers & edges. / Fair torn d/w.
Price: $45.00


Poems by Elizabeth Riddell ; designed and decorated by Douglas Annand.
Riddell, Elizabeth
Book Number: 67159
ISBN: 
Publisher: Ure Smith, Sydney, n.d. 1948
8vo. leather bound. 45pp. b/w illus. Very good, some fading to cover, some rubbing to cover corners. Limited to 350 copies, signed by the author and artist. This copy no. 32, signed by the poet and the artist. Scarce.
Price: $350.00


Alive - Poems 1971-72
Judith Wright
Book Number: 67138
ISBN: 0207126496
Publisher: Angus and Robertson 1973 first edition
8vo. hardcover. 46pp. Near Fine. / Good+ d/w with some small tears. Judith Wright's tenth book of verse is chiefly concerned with how it feels to be a woman in her fifties living in a house that is also in its fifties.
Price: $15.00


Farm Ballads
Carleton, Will
Book Number: 66933
ISBN: 
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York 1876.
8vo. hardcover. Gilt-bordered and gilt-embossed decorated cloth covered bevelled boards. 108pp. b/w illus., b/w frontis with tissue guard. Good, wear to cover corners, paper cracked on front hinge, large owner's inscription verso of frontis.
Price: $20.00


The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
Brooke, Rupert
Book Number: 66879
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1941.
8vo. hardcover. 162pp. b/w frontis with tissue guard. edges uncut. Good+, light foxing, owner's details on fep., previous owner has added a paragraph re Brooke on rear endpaper. / no d/w.
Price: $10.00


Eight by Eight: Poems
Buckley, Vincent, Laurence Collinson, Alexander Craig, Max Dunn, Noel Macainsh, David Martin, R. A Simpson and Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Book Number: 66875
ISBN: 
Publisher: Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 1963
8vo. hardcover. 112pp. Very good, owner's stamp on fep. / no d/w.
Price: $12.00


A Body of Words
Dutton, Geoffrey
Book Number: 66872
ISBN: 855510110
Publisher: Edwards & Shaw, Sydney, 1977.
8vo. hardcover. 90pp. Near Fine. / Good d/w with some insect damage on edges.
Price: $25.00


Preferences: Poems
Macartney, Fredrick T.
Book Number: 66861
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson Australia 1941.
8vo. hardcover. 115pp.Very good, foxing to endpapers & outer edge of text-block. Very good toned d/w.
Price: $18.00


Red Bird
Red Bird Poems by Mary Oliver
Book Number: 66752
ISBN: 9780807068922
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston, 2008.
8vo. hardcover. 78pp. Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $45.00


Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Fitzgerald, Edward. illustrated by Robert Stewart Sherriffs; edited by George Maine. [Omar Khayyam]
Book Number: 66766
ISBN: 
Publisher: Beaufort Books, Inc. April 1985
Large 8vo leather bound hardcover. Gilt edges. Full page colour plates. Very good cover corner & top of spine rubbed, owner's inscription on fep. In slipcase.
Price: $25.00


A Cloud of Summer and Other New Haiku
Johnson, Doris.
Book Number: 66710
ISBN: 
Publisher: Follett Chicago 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 48pp. colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Good rubbed & foxed d/w with stains on front panel.
Price: $18.00


Poetry of the Mountains
O'Connor, Mark; Brown, Ian (photos)
Book Number: 66701
ISBN: 090932557x
Publisher: A Megalong Book, Second Back Row Press, Leura, 1988
8vo. softcover. 80pp. colour photos. Good+, light toning to cover edges.
Price: $12.00


The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Book Number: 66715
ISBN: 
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co. London n.d. circa 1892.
8vo.leather hardcover, gilt title on cover and spine, gilt page edges. 400pp. Good, hinges cracked at top(repaired), foxing to endpapers, wear & rubbing to cover edges, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $18.00


Switzerland in English Prose and Poetry
Lunn, Arnold
Book Number: 66623
ISBN: 
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1947
8vo. hardcover. index, b/w illus., colour frontis. Good+, spine faded, foxing to endpapers owner's details on front pastedown. / Fair d/w repaired with yellowing tape on spine ends.
Price: $15.00


Collected Poems 1936-1967
Stewart, Douglas
Book Number: 66621
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 339pp. Index. Very good, toning to endpapers, news clippings tipped-in by previous owner on endpapers. / Good+ d/w chipped at spine ends.
Price: $18.00



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