Verse
Melbourne: F. Wilmot, 1930-32. 7 issues, Vol.1 (nos. 4 & 6); Vol.2 (nos. 9 & 12); Vol.3 (no.s 13, 17 and 18), each volume slim 8vo, creased down centre, or. paper wraps, some vols. sunned, contents v.g. Contributors include Mary Gilmore.
Poetry
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Tennyson. Alfred Lord
London: Macmillan and Co., 1905. Large octavo, original half leather boards, decorated in gilt to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, author frontis. engraved portrait plate, pp viii, 902. Small signature ffep. Very good condition. The complete poetical works of Lord Tennyson.
Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, The "Albion" Edition.
London: Macmillan, 1902. 1st thus, octavo, original buff coloured cloth boards with gilt decorative design, cream leather title label laid on upper board with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers with gilt, author portrait frontis plate with tissue guard, all edges gilt, pp viii, 646, 1. School prize plate front endpaper. Some.....
Patria. Poems.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1941. 8vo, original boards, dustjacket, pp 71. Light spotting and rubbing to d.j., previous owner's inscription ffep, good condn.
Eugenio Montale, The private language of poetry
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1977. 8vo, pp. xii, 167, Index, b/w frontis, original limp boards, very good. Examination of the nature of Montale's poetry. The Writers of Italy Series, Number 4. Text in English, although the poems are generally presented in Italian.
Poems.
Melbourne: Harston, Partridge & Co., 1911. 1st ed., octavo, watermark silk cloth over flexible boards, light fishing along lower front edge, pp 51. Presentation copy, signed by author. Very good condn.
Somewhere is Dawn
The Author (?), 1950. 8vo, original paper wraps with illustration, pp 54. Some wear to yapp edges, o/w very good condn. Poetry, mainly with a war theme (e.g. "G.I. 1943", "Something is Fishy in Vichy").
The Ascent of F6
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 123. Previous owner's signature ffep, o/w very good in like, price-clipped d.j., protected. Verse drama. In part the story of an expedition to climb F6 (a fictional mountain).
Light Blue Days
Melbourne: The Author, 1927. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 107. Signed by author, presentation copy. Light foxing preliminary pages, offsetting endpapers, o/w very good in like d.j.
Jimmy's Blues
London: Michael Joseph, 1983. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 64. Very lightly marked at the bottom of the dustjacket's rear inner flap, otherwise very clean. Near fine condition in very near fine unclipped and protected d.j. First edition of the great writer's only collection of poetry. Scarce.....
The Complete Poems of Dr. Joseph Beaumont (1616-1699), for the first time Collected and Edited: with Memorial-Introduction, notes and illustrations, glossarial index, and portrait &c. ["Pysche Cantos" Privately Printed edition of 1880]
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1880. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart (Ed.). Privately Printed, 1st ed thus., Sm. 4to., 2 vols., Volume I: Psyche cantos I-XI, pp.lxxxvii, 232, fronts port.; Volume 2: Psyche cantos XII-XXIV, pp.iv, 292. Both vols incl Index, ex-lib with usual stamps, scattered foxing mainly to prelims and end pages.....
Poems
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. 8vo, original grey paper-covered cloth boards, pp 192, xiv pp publisher's catalogue. Rubbed and bumped, previous owner's inscription ffep, o/w good. 550 copies printed.
John Betjeman's Collected Poems
London: John Murray, 1960. Comp. and introd, Lord Birkenhead. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xxvi, 279. Ner-fine condition in good d.j.
Shelley, A Life Story
London: Collins, 1946. 8vo, pp. 320, Index, b/w frontis portrait, rear hinge started, bottom edge untrimmed, original cloth boards, good, in d.j. spine sunned, rear marked, edges frayed and chipped. Biography of the poet.
Festivals of Fire
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 42. Edges uncut, several pages unopened. Previous owner's inscription ffep, o/w very good in good d.j. (fraying to edges, chip to lower corner).
Twenty Three Poems By Chris Brennan
Australian Limited Editions Society, 1938. Quarter leather with gilt decoration, blindstamped title, illus title page, decorations pp 69. Copy No. 237 of of a limited edition of 500, signed by the designer, Douglas Annand, and the printer, Alan Baker. Limited edition of poetry by Christopher Brennan (1870 - 1932) the.....
Fifine at the Fair
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1872. 8vo, original brown cloth boards with gilt title, pp xii, 171. Corners rubbed, fraying head of spine, previous owner's inscriptions endpapers, pencilled annotation rear endpaper, endpapers slightly marked, good condn.
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1871. 8vo, original blue cloth boards with gilt title, pp 148. Boards rubbed and slightly marked, o/w very good condn.
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Fire Station [2nd printing]
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1970. 2nd printing octavo, original red printed wraps with gilt fire pole to front, black endpapers, unpag. (32 pp), red title page insert over b&w illustration by the author. Signature (small) to the first page (Bukowski ? see image). Some wear to the deckled edges, crease.....
Selected Poems of Robert Burns. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. (Large paper edition, one of 50 copies, signed]
London: Chiswick Press / Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891. Introd. Andrew Lang. Large Paper Edition, limited edition, number 30 of 50, numbered and signed by Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press. Deluxe binding, full vellum with elaborate gilt decoration and gilt dentelles, uncut, top edge gilt, spine with.....
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. With a memoir by Henry Lytton Bulwer. Thick duodecimo, original cloth boards with blind stamped decoration and borders front board. Recased and restored with new cloth spine and leather title label, gilt lettered, new endpapers, pp xlviii, 641. Small closed tears top edge of several.....
Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron
London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. 1890. Large octavo, decorative red cloth boards (upper board lettered and decorated in gilt and black. spine decorated in gilt and black with a green gilt decorated shield-shaped title, lower board dec blind-stamped), all edges gilt, b&w engraved plates, red dec border to each.....
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. (edited by William Rossetti ; illustrated Thomas Seccombe/Ford Madox Brown?]
London: John Walker, 1881. Thomas Seccombe (Illus.) / Ford Madox Brown. 1st ed thus, octavo, cloth boards, fountain design (with flowers, birds, butterflies) stamped in gilt, silver and black upper board. gilt lettering and publisher's device to spine, all edges gilt, frontis portrait (bust in circular design), single title page.....
Poems. Satirical and Miscellaneous.
London: Selwyn and Blount, 1923. Octavo, original boards with quarter cloth, pp 72 plus advertisement. Ex-library stamps, library number to spine, some rubbing to boards. One of a limited edition of 500.
Farm Ballads
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. 1st ed., royal octavo, original illustrated cloth boards with gilt decorations, pictorial gilt vignette, all edges gilt, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp 108. Gift inscription second free endpaper. Small split rera lower edge of spine. Very good condition. American poems about rural life.....