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There are 269 books in this catalogue.
The Farthing Poet - A biography of Richard Hengist Horne 1802-84
Blainey, Ann
Book Number: 66240
ISBN: 
Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1968 8vo. hardcover. 286pp., index, b/w illus. Very good, foxing to endpapers. / Good+ d/w rubbed on edges.
Price: $15.00


The Wild White Snow Gum. Collected Verse.
Casey, Betty
Book Number: 66222
ISBN: 
Dymock's Book Arcade, Sydney n.d. circa 1960. Small 8vo. red cloth hardcover. 79pp. b/w photos. Good, some flecking to cover, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $12.00


A Shropshire Lad
Housman, A. E. Illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield
Book Number: 66226
ISBN: 0744511178
Walker Books Ltd, London, 1991. 4to. hardcover. colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


Hearts of Gold and other Verses
OGILVIE, Will
Book Number: 66210
ISBN: 
Angus & Robertson, London, 1913. 8vo. hardcover. 204pp. 33pp. publisher adverts. Good, personel letter in pencil on first few pages, some foxing.
Price: $20.00


Fairy Tales
Wilde, Oscar
Book Number: 66183
ISBN: 
The Bodley Head, London 1966. 8vo. hardcover. 189pp. Good, foxing. / good, browned d/w with some small tears.
Price: $12.00


The People's Favourite Poems
Dexter, Gary
Book Number: 66145
ISBN: 9781910400616
Old Street Publishing, London 2018 8vo. hardcover. 286pp. Very good+. / Very good d/w with small chips on top corners.
Price: $15.00


The Poetical Works of Robert Burns
Burns, Robert
Book Number: 66163
ISBN: 
Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, London, 1921 8vo. green padded leather hardcover. All edges gilt. 628pp. index. b/w frontis. very good, some rubbing and wear to cover edges, mostly on corners, light toning to page edges, foxing to endpapers, owners inscription dated 1921.
Price: $30.00


Tragedies & Poems: William Shakespeare
Alexander, Peter. (edited by) [Shakespeare]
Book Number: 66164
ISBN: 
Collins, London 1958. Small 8vo. cloth softcover. 576pp. Very good, wear to top of spine, large inscription on fep.
Price: $15.00


Zen Poems and Sayings
Various
Book Number: 66166
ISBN: 1864763604
Axiom Publishing, South Australia, 2006. 8vo. softcover. 128pp. Very good, light foxing to endpapers.
Price: $8.00


Other Men's Flowers. An Anthology of Poetry
Wavell, A. P.
Book Number: 66167
ISBN: 0224607502
Jonathan Cape, London 1971. 8vo. hardcover. 448pp. index. Light foxing, mainly to edges. / Very good d/w. Memorial edition.
Price: $35.00


Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Cope, Wendy
Book Number: 66115
ISBN: 0571191215
Faber & Faber, London, 1997. 8vo. hardcover. 59pp. Very good, minor foxing on endpapers and outer page edges. /Very good, lightly foxed d/w.
Price: $25.00


Uncertain Land and Other Poems
O'Brian, Patrick
Book Number: 66071
ISBN: 9780008261344
HarperCollins, London 2019. 8vo. hardcover. 160pp. Very good. / Very good d/w with some rubbing on edge.
Price: $15.00


Poetry Please. The Nations Best Loved Poems
McGough, Roger
Book Number: 66072
ISBN: 9780571303281
Faber & Faber, London, 2013. 8vo. hardcover. 618pp. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Glugs of Gosh
C.J. Dennis; illustrated by Hal Gye
Book Number: 65872
ISBN: 0207180679
Angus and Robertson Facsimile Reprint 1993 8vo. softcover, 130pp. b&w line drawings. Very good, foxing to endpapers
Price: $8.00


The Loves of Dido and Aeneas. Being the Fourth Book of the Aeneid translated into English Verse.
Irvine, A. L. (editor). Translated by Richard Fanshawe
Book Number: 65857
ISBN: 
Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1924 8vo. hardcover. 132pp. Very good, foxing to endpapers & outer page edges. / Good foxed d/w chipped on edges. Text in Latin and English
Price: $75.00


Finders Keepers. Selected Prose 1971-2001
Heaney, Seamus
Book Number: 65797
ISBN: 0571210805
Faber & Faber, London, 2002. First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 416pp. Very good. / Very good, faded d/w.
Price: $30.00


Neglected poems and other creatures
Humphries, Barry
Book Number: 65798
ISBN: 0207172129
Angus & Robertson North Ryde, N.S.W. 1991. 8vo. hardcover. 187pp. very good, page edges toned / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


This City. Poems
Compton, Jennifer
Book Number: 65799
ISBN: 9781877578106
Otago University Press, 2011. 8vo. illustrated boards, hardcover. 64pp. Very good, cover slightly faded.
Price: $12.00


Guardians, Not Angels
Oliver, Stephen
Book Number: 65800
ISBN: 0908790600
Hazard Press, 1993. 8vo. softcover. 79pp. Very good, some foxing to endpapers. Signed by author.
Price: $30.00


Wilding, Michael
Book of the Reading
Book Number: 65801
ISBN: 0958780196
Paper Bark Press, Australia 1994. 8vo. softcover. 42pp. Very good. Inscribed & signed by author.."For Bob with all best wishes Michael"
Price: $25.00


Nero's Poems. Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero
Lehmann, Geoffrey
Book Number: 65802
ISBN: 020714382X
Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney, 1981. 8vo. softcover. 77pp. Good, top corner bumped
Price: $25.00


The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
Williams, Williams
Book Number: 65803
ISBN: 9780811216913
New Directions, New York 2007. 8vo. softcover. 304pp. Good, top corner bumped. Missing CD.
Price: $12.00


Dog Fox Field
Murray, Les
Book Number: 65804
ISBN: 0374143145
Farrar Straus Giroux, New York 1992. First American edition. 8vo. hardcover. 103pp. Very good. / Very good d/w. Inscribed & signed by author
Price: $45.00


A Human Pattern: Selected Poems.
Wright, Judith.
Book Number: 65806
ISBN: 9780207164843
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1991. 
Price: $10.00


Leaves from Australian Forests
Kendall, Henry
Book Number: 65785
ISBN: 
George Robertson, Melbourne 1869. First edition. 8vo. orig. cloth hardcover, Good, cover worn, paper on front hinge cracked, some foxing, library stamps (dated 1872) on fep, front pastedown & half-title. Scarce First edition his second collection.
Price: $750.00


Winifred Weir
Isabella
Book Number: 65780
ISBN: 0864187297
Five Islands Press, 2000. 8vo softcover. 83pp. Very good.
Price: $10.00


Autograph Poetry in the English Language: Facsimiles of Original Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. 2 Volumes.
Croft, P. J. (Editor)
Book Number: 65755
ISBN: 
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1973. Folio. hardcovers. 198pp., full page b/w illus. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/ws, small tear on bottom edge of wrapper on volume I.
Price: $55.00


A Poet's Life 1963-2005
Pizer, Marjorie
Book Number: 65682
ISBN: 0975810960
Pinchgut Press, Sydney 2006. 8vo. softcover. 122pp. Very good.
Price: $20.00


The Great Attainder, Poems
Letters, F. J. H.
Book Number: 65583
ISBN: 
The Author, Sydney 1943. 8vo. hardcover. 46pp. Very good. Edition limited to 250 copies, number 93.
Price: $30.00


Alice in Wormland
Hewett, Dorothy
Book Number: 65463
ISBN: 0958780110
Paper Bark Press, Paddington, NSW, 1987. 8vo. hardcover. 144pp. Good-, water stain on edge of last page, front of page wavy. / Good d/w with some stains & foxing. Limited edition of 100 hard bound autographed copies of wich this is number 80. Signed by author. Inscribed & signed by author on title page.
Price: $25.00



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