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Hitchin, Herts: The Mandeville Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Printed paper wraps, sewn : 28pp : limited to 350 unnumbered copies. Tiny bump to top corner of upper wrap; light sunning to spine. More
Hitchin, Herts: The Mandeville Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Printed paper wraps, sewn : 28pp : limited to 350 unnumbered copies. Tiny bump to top corner of upper wrap; light sunning to spine. More
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. Hardcover : pp. [vii] x [xii] [1] 414 [420] : 93 illustrations : pale mauve paper covered boards : black cloth spine with argent lettering : bright yellow endpapers : illustrated jacket. "The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the..... More
London ; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xliii [xliv] [5] 338 [348] : black cloth boards : rich red endpapers : jacket illustration by Vlassis Caniaris. Light foxing to top edge of block; jacket sleeves a little curled. Kiki Dimoula’s poetry—the most praised and prized..... More
New York: Dirty Bum, 1987. Soft stapled wraps, 34pp. In March 2018 Archives Fine Books acquired the better portion of the personal library of Queensland-based poet and artist Billy Jones (1935 – 2012). Upward of 400 (mostly) poetry volumes, many of the books are heavily underlined and bear notes at..... More
London: Anvil Press Poetry in association with Wildwood House, 1981. First Edition. Softcover : 80pp : cream covers lettered in brick red : cover design by Asa Benveniste. Cream covers lightly marked. Tom Disch was a science fiction author and poet. This 'abecedary' was his first poetry collection to be..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1984. First Thus. Softcover : 54pp (2, blank) : black covers printed in red and white. Top corner of top cover softened; lower corner of same bumped; a couple of poetry related ephemera loosely laid in. Tom Disch (1940-2008) was a pioneering author of speculative fiction and also..... More
Cambridge; New York; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1980. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [viii] xxi [xxii] [2] : two stapled documents titled 'Bibliography of Reference Materials on Aborigines' and 'The Loss of Australia's Aboriginal Language Heritage' loosely inserted : green cover. Minor edge-wear; creasing to spine; fold crease to corner..... More
Melbourne ; Auckland ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] x, 213 [1 blank] : 31 plates : rust boards : gilt to spine : illustrated jacket. Top edge of block foxed; head and tail of spine gently pushed; jacket verso foxed. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1978. First Edition. Softcover : pp [8] [2] 3-46 [48] : white, blue and black illustrated cover, drawn and designed by M. Yamaguchi : illustrated endpapers : SIGNED hand written note from author to previous owner loosely inserted. Rosemary Dobson AO (1920 - 2012) was an..... More
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1970. 1/4 cloth. Square book with illustrated boards and cloth spine, pp [8], 16, with 45rpm record of Dobson reading her own poems in sleeve at the front paste-down. A little edgeworn and scuffed. More
Canberra: The National Library of Australia, 1990. First Edition. Softcover : 20 pp : stapled booklet : die-cut blue paper covers. More
London: J. Dodsley, 1781. First Edition. Octavo : pp. [iv] 404 (Chronicle & State Papers), 251 (Characters, Natural History, Useful Projects, Antiquities, Misc. Essays, Poetry & Account of Books) [1, blank] [11, contents] [1, blank] : plain e.p.s : three quarter leather over marbled boards. Watermark to tail of spine;..... More
London: Anvil Press Poetry in association with Rex Collings, 1975. Softcover : pp. (6) 7- 30 (32) : cover illustrated and lettered in black and shades of grey : cover design by Tudor Banu . Minor wear to lower corner. tefan Augustin Doina (pen name of tefan Popa) (1922- 2002)..... More
London: George Routledge And Sons, 1927. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xxiii [xxiv] [1] 244 : 16 plates : 55 text figures : faded red cloth boards : gilt to spine. Boards scuffed and marked; spine sunned; endpapers toned; head and tail of spine gently pushed; smudge mark to page 242;..... More
London & New York: The Studio/Studio Publications, n.d. Cloth. Water colour by Australian illustrator Maivs Dowling tipped in at the front gutter. Hardcover (29.5 x 20.5cm), 128pp, richly illustrated with b&w photographs; red cloth covered boards with lettering in blue on the spine. Lacks dustwrapper, the head and tail of the..... More
Malaysia: Forestry Department, 1992. Hardcover : pp. [iv] xi [xii] 94 [2 blank] : illustrated throughout by Martin Molubin, Soejatme Dransfield and Mary Watt : foreword by Datuk Miller Munang : black cloth boards : gilt to front and spine : green photo illustrated dust jacket with bamboo front and..... More
Sydney: Pan Books, 1981. Soft cover. Softcover : 244pp. : original illustrated wrappers : reprint : inscribed by Drewe to Greg Gatenby on title page. Light page tanning else a near fine copy of the author's second novel. Greg Gatenby, to whom the book is inscribed, is a member of..... More
Melbourne: Richmond Hill Press, 1979. Limited Edition/First Edition. Hardcover 48cm x 32cm : pp. [20] 45 pages off plates : limited edition of 520 copies signed by the artist, 500 numbered copies were sold and 20 were for presentation, of which this is number 479 : large folder containing 6..... More
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [v] viii [1] 168 [170] : glossy purple boards with white lettering. Head and tail of spine pressed; boards gloss rubbed. Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach (23 December 1883 – 16 November 1917) was a German philosopher, phenomenologist from..... More
New York; Chichester; Weinheim; Brisbane; Singapore; Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. Second Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xx [xxii] 654 [12 blank] : red and orange illustrated cover. More
Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, c.1992. Glossy pictorial cover. Octavo (263 x 216 mm.), 116pp, ill., bibliography, pictorial glossy paper covered boards. Very good, boards lightly scuffed and marked, top edge soiled, top back fore edge corner bumped, top of spine with light wear. Published on the occasion of an exhibition..... More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. First Edition. Softcover ; pp (4) 52 (2) : soft cover with gatefold flaps : one of 500 copies. Small soil mark to leading edge of top cover. Robert Duncan was an important part of both the Black Mountain school of poetry, led by Charles Olson, and..... More
New York: New Directions, 1973. Third printing. Softcover : 96pp : illustrated title : photo illustrated cover. Robert Duncan was an important part of both the Black Mountain school of poetry, led by Charles Olson, and the San Francisco Renaissance, whose other members included poets Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser..... More
Sydney: New Poetry, 1975. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [viii] 27 [30] : limited edition of 500 copies : black and white covers with photos of author by Jane McClure to front and back. Moderate wear to covers; mark to fore-edge of block. ''Robert Duncan is the Shelley of..... More