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The bond of poetry; a book of verse for Australasian schools
Stable, J. J. (selected by )
Book Number: 65882
ISBN: 
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press 1938. 8vo. red cloth hardcover. 180pp. Good+, owner's details on fep, wear to cover corners.
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


A working forest : selected prose
Murray, Les A. (Les Allan)
Book Number: 65807
ISBN: 1875989153
Potts Point, NSW Duffy & Snellgrove 1997 8vo softcover 402pp. Good, page edges toned.
Price: $12.00


Everyman's Book of English Verse
Wain, John (editor)
Book Number: 65809
ISBN: 0460043692
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London., 1981. 8vo. cloth hardcover. 672pp. Very good, outer page edges toned.
Price: $18.00


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


The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Lewis, D. Day (editor). [Owen, Richard]
Book Number: 65425
ISBN: 070111293X
Chatto & Windus, London, 1971. 8vo. softcover. 191pp. Good, some notes and underlining in pencil.
Price: $8.00


Air Mail Palestine, with Other Verse and Some Prose
McNicoll, David
Book Number: 65420
ISBN: 
Dymock's Book Arcade, Sydney, 1943. 8vo. stapled wraps. 38pp. b/w illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $8.00


Australia Suite.
Hard, Lynn. Drawings by Garry Shead.
Book Number: 65318
ISBN: 1875892621
ETT Imprint, Sydney, 1988. Large aquare 8vo. hardcover. 72pp. b/w drawings. Author's proof copy 8/10-#. Signed by authors. Very good, faint foxing on endpapers, slightly bent.
Price: $250.00


A Shropshire Lad
Housman, A. E. Illustrated by Piers Browne
Book Number: 65277
ISBN: 1852530715
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


The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Edition of The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
Book Number: 65238
ISBN: 0856830135
Shepheard-Walwyn, London 1975. Large 8vo. hardcover in slipcase. 154pp. + index of first lines. Very good, some very light mottling to cloth on front board, very good slipcase.
Price: $35.00


The Illustrated treasury of Australian verse
Davis, Beatrice
Book Number: 65187
ISBN: 0170064077
Melbourne Nelson 1984 Small 4to hardcover 329pp colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


The Banned Man
McCarthy, Shaun
Book Number: 65191
ISBN: 090417932X
Hippopotamus Press, UK., 1984. 8vo. softcover. 59pp. Very good+.
Price: $12.00


The Selected Poetry of Pope
Pope, Alexander. Edited by Martin Price
Book Number: 65192
ISBN: 0452008123
New American Library 1980. 8vo. softcover. 301pp. Good+, page edges toned.
Price: $8.00


The Poetical Works Of Thomas Moore
Moore, Thomas
Book Number: 65111
ISBN: 
Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd., London 1911. 8vo. padded leather covered boards, marbled endpapers. Hardcover. All edges gilt. 532pp. Light foxing to prelims. Very good.
Price: $75.00


The old Bulletin book of verse : the best verses from The Bulletin, 1881-1901.
No Author
Book Number: 30150
ISBN: 0701801093
Melbourne Lansdowne 1975 8vo hardcover 203pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00



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