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There are 273 books in this catalogue.
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


My Country and Other Poems
Mackellar, Dorothea
Book Number: 65323
ISBN: 0859020339
Currey O'Neil, Melbourne 1983. Large 8vo. hardcover. 108pp. Illustrated with colour plates. Very good, small owner's inscription on fep. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00


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


The Poetical Works of Longfellow
Wordsworth
Book Number: 65020
ISBN: 
Oxford University Press, 1951 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 886pp. good,front hinge cracked.
Price: $15.00


The Silver Branch. Twenty-seven Poems
Deamer, Dulcie
Book Number: 65070
ISBN: 
Swinburne Press, Sydney, 1948. 8vo. hardcover. 89pp. b/w frontis. Very good, small crease to cloth at bottom of spine. / Fair chipped d/w with some insect damage on edges. Limited edition of 250 copies this being No. 1132 signed by author.
Price: $125.00


Old Bush Songs (Centenary Edition)
Paterson, A. B. edited by Warren Fahey & Graham Seal
Book Number: 62613
ISBN: 0733315917
ABC Books 2005 8vo. softcover. 324pp. b/w illus. very good, crease on cover.
Price: $10.00


Come on In!: New Poems
Bukowski, Charles
Book Number: 65054
ISBN: 9781847670403
Canongate Books, United Kingdom, 2008. 8vo. softcover. 279pp. Very good+.
Price: $12.00


Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work, from Tennyson to Plath
Paschen, Elise and Mosby, Rebekah Presson (editors) / narrated by Charles Osgood
Book Number: 64989
ISBN: 1570717206
Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2001 4to. hardcover. 336pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, page edges slightly wavy. / Very good d/w. Includes three CDs in excellent condition.
Price: $30.00


Selected poems, 1963-1983
Pizer, Marjorie
Book Number: 52361
ISBN: 0949625019
Pinchgut Press 1984 8vo softcover 160pp near fine. For this volume of Selected Poems Marjorie Pizer has chosen the best of those published in her eight previous books plus a number of new unpublished pieces.
Price: $12.00


Ngali Ngalga (Let's Talk)
Gutya, Burraga (Canning, Ken)
Book Number: 64977
ISBN: 0646006738
Breakout Press, Sydney 1990. 8vo. stapled wraps. Softcover. 54pp. b/w illus. Inscribed & signed by author inside front cover. Very good.
Price: $15.00


Australian Verse Drift : Poems
Allen, Alfred (of Waverley)
Book Number: 64979
ISBN: 
Sydney : Printed by F. Cunninghame, 1883. Small 8vo. cloth hardcover. 93pp. Good, solid copy with water stain on spine & some of the rear board cloth near spine, water mark on rear endpaper & last few pages near spine.
Price: $125.00


Selected Poems
Spender, Stephen
Book Number: 64953
ISBN: 
Faber & Faber, London 1940. First edition. Small 8vo. hardcover. 75pp. Very good. light foxing to endpapers. / Good+ d/w with sunned spine.
Price: $45.00


The Bush Fire and Other Verses
Lee, Ida
Book Number: 64924
ISBN: 
Sampson Low, Marston, London 1897. 8vo. orig. cloth hardcover. 62pp. uncut edges. Very good, foxing, mainly to endpapers. Small chips on top edge of title page. Scarce.
Price: $250.00


This My Son
Kinmont, Joan
Book Number: 64917
ISBN: 
Frederick Muller, London, 1945. 8vo. hardcover. 62pp. Very good. / Good d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Green Mosaic. Memories of New Guinea.
Rolls, Eric C.
Book Number: 64839
ISBN: 0170051528
Thomas Nelson Australia, 1977. 8vo. hardcover. 85pp. Good+, very light crease on first few pages, small kangaroo stamp on fep. / good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $8.00


Trembling Man - Two Artists and a Poet
Totaro, Paolo; Holmes a Court(drawings); Levine, Ruth(vessels)
Book Number: 64840
ISBN: 
Padana Press, Sydney 2017. Square 8vo. 33pp. colour illus. Very good. Poet, Paolo Totaro AM has Parkinson’s disease. He is the Trembling Man. Juliet Holmes à Court and Ruth Levine are artists.
Price: $25.00


Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily
Book Number: 64828
ISBN: 0517415143
Chatham River Press, New York, 1983. 8vo. marbled paper covered boards with leather spine & label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 256pp. Near Fine.
Price: $30.00


The Closed Door and Other Verses
Mackellar, Dorothea
Book Number: 64808
ISBN: 
Australasian Authors' Agency, Melbourne 1911. 8vo. softcover. 70pp. Good, some foxing. Missing original covers, they have been replaced by plain card cover. Scarce. Author's first book contains "My Country".
Price: $250.00


Doherty's Corner: The Life and Work of Poet Marie E. J. Pitt
Burke, Colleen
Book Number: 64788
ISBN: 0207150567
Sirius, Sydney, 1985. 8vo. softcover. 154pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, cover fadec.
Price: $15.00



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