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There are 298 books in this catalogue.
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


FOURTEEN MEN AND OTHER POEMS.
Gilmore, Mary
Book Number: 67440
ISBN: 
Publisher: A&R 1954.
8vo. hardcover. 94pp. Good, missing fep. Foxing to half-title page. / Good. foxed d/w.
Price: $10.00


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


Songs from the Hills
O'Reilly, Bernard
Book Number: 67298
ISBN: 0858810026
Publisher: Queensland, Fortitude Press, n.d. 1970?
8vo. hardcover. index, b/w illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep. some rubbing to bottom cover edge & cover corners. / Good+ d/w with small tear top corner.
Price: $12.00


Musicopoematographoscope & Pocket Musicopoematographoscope.
Brennan, Christopher.
Book Number: 67289
ISBN: 0908094884
Publisher: Hale & Ironmonger, 1981.
Folio. Hardcover. 34pp. Very good, light foxing to endpapers & prelims. / Very good d/w.
Price: $20.00


Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Readings
Blake, William ; Edited by Geoffrey Keynes
Book Number: 67271
ISBN: 0192541579
Publisher: Oxford at the University Press, London 1972.
8vo. hardcover. 944pp. index. b/w illus. Good+, foxing to endpapers & edges, a few notes in pencil, owner's details on fep. / Good d/w with laminate lifting.
Price: $30.00


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


Knocking Round
Le Gay Brereton, J.
Book Number: 66977
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1930.
8vo. hardcover. 162pp. b/w frontis. Good+, some foxing mainly to endpapers & edges, spine slanted. / Very good toned d/w.
Price: $20.00


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


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


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


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


Black Swans at Berrima
Perry, Grace
Book Number: 66805
ISBN: 0901760102
Publisher: South Head Press, Sydney 1972.
8vo. hardcover. 111pp. Very good. / Good+ d/w rubbed on corners with a small tear on bottom corner.
Price: $12.00


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


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


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



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