London: TR Books, 1977. First English Edition. Softcover : pp. (14) 15-46 (2) : tan free endpapers : black and tan illustrated covers lettered in white : cover design by Dia al-Azzawi. A complete translation of al-Haidiri's "Agani al-Haris al-Mut'ab" first published in Beirut in 1971. Haidair is generally associated..... More
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [8] 1-47 [48] : beige paper boards, purple lettering, repeated on dust jacket : bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. : library stamp front free e.p. and half-title page. Age toning to boards and jacket; a few small bumps to board edges;..... More
Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2006. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover : pp. xxiii, 527 [i.e. 528] : richly illustrated : orange eps : black boards lettered in gilt to spine : illustrated dustwrapper with 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Award sticker affixed to top wrap. Corner pushed; slight wear to base..... More
Sydney: Biennale of Sydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990. Softcover : pp. [4] 511 [512] : extensively illustrated : pick cover and dust jacket with bold blue lettering. Creasing to spine; edges of text block grubby; general edge-wear; some chipping to dust jacket mostly near spine head; jacket..... More
Sydney: Odana Editions, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [7] 80 : richly illustrated throughout including eleven coloured plates : limited edition of 1000 copies of which this is 285 : numbered and signed : tan cloth covered boards : gilt to spine : illustrated cream dust jacket. Bookseller's sticker..... More
London: Virtue and Co., n.d. [1874-76]. First Edition. Quarto, 8 vols. Vol 1: pp.28, iv (outer title page and advertisement), 14 steel engravings including vignette inner title page and map of Victoria; Vol 2: pp.29-56, 14 steel engravigns including map of New South Wales; Vol 3: pp. 57-88, 14 steel..... More
Berkeley: The Beguine Library, 1974. First Edition. Softcover : (3) iv (v) 150 (12) : Covers illustrated in blue and brown and lettered in black and cream : light blue spine lettered in black : holograph note by Jones on the inside covers describing an encounter with Brabazon. Edgeworn and..... More
Sydney: Scholastic Australia, 2013. Roland Harvey. Hardcover ; pp. [24] : Sing along CD : Illustrated throughout by Roland Harvey, with additions by a previous owner including, glued on pictures, fake blood, altered text and plot. Clearly put together by someone with a sense of humour, this adulterated copy has..... More
Antwerp: Ludion, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover : [4] 278 [280] : illustrated : brown boards with cream lettering, repeated on jacket. Scatter of light fox marks to block top edge;. More
New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [vi] xv [xvi] [2] 134 [140] : additional translations by Elizabeth Bishop and Gregory Rabassa : white cover with painting by Alberto da Veiga Guignard. Faint scratch marks to cover. Carlos Drummond De Andrade (1902-1987) was a Brazilian poet and..... More
Brisbane: W. R. Smith & Paterson, 1927. Hardcover : pp. 88 : frontispiece portrait of author : brown cloth boards : title embossed with blind embossed border : palm illustration to top board : double blind embossed border to margin of lower board. Top- and fore-edge foxed : free-endpapers toned... More
Melbourne: Black Pepper, 1997. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [iii] ix [x] 58 [62] : deep green paper cover with image by Daniel Keene. ''The centre of gravity in these poems is very rarely external subject matter, rather, it is their very emergence, to dry into verbal beings on the..... More
Melbourne: Cheshire, 1972. Second Edition. Softcover : pp. [14] 1-118 [122] : white covers, black lettering : green spine. Crease to head of spine; faint foxing and toning to covers. More
San Predro: The Lummox Press, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo, 127pp., paperback, glossy black and white illustrated covers. Signed at the title page. Henry Denander is a poet we discovered through handling the Billy Jones collection. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden and on Hydra, Greece. For more than twenty years..... More
Sydney ; London: Angus and Robertson, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] xiv, 94 : inscribed by author to poet R.S. Byrnes, 1947 : apricot paper boards : plum spine : gilt lettering : plastic protective wrapper. Head and tail of spine gently pushed and mildly rubbed; corners pressed;..... More
Cremorne: Talkarra Press, 1959. First Edition. Softcover : pp. 20 : limited edition of 275 copies : pale yellow stapled booklet with black lettering : signed by author and publisher : bookseller's sticker to verso of front cover. Some age toning to cover. More
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1990. Enlarged edition. Hardcover : Vol 1 : pp. [v], xii, 420 : Vol 2 : pp. [4] 421- 832, [2 blank] : 48 pages of colour illustrations between both : rust brown cloth boards, gilt lettering and bands to spines : beige pictorial dust jackets designed..... More
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [6] 261 [3 blank] : frontispiece : pale green flecked cloth boards : green spine label with gilt : beige dust jacket with orange and green lettering : top edge green dye. Spots of yellow marks to upper board; head..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [8] 86 [2 blank]gilt too spine : beige dust jacket with red decorative border. Front jacket sleeve has open tear at tail corner and remnant of sticker to spine. "Gyula Illyés born Gyula Illés (2 November 1902 – 15 April..... More
Austin, TX: Liquid Paper Press, 1997. Soft illustrated covers, 44pp. Slight mark on front cover. 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..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [8] 320 : cream covers. Age toned block edges. Walter David Jones CH, CBE ( 1895 – 1974) was a painter and modernist poet of partly Welsh background. T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the..... More
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1959. Second Edition. Hardcover : pp. [4] 9-319 [5 blank] : burgundy cloth boards : argent to spine : faded brown dust jacket with drawing of running monk : jacket not price clipped. Very light fox marks to endpapers as well as first and last couple..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972 - 1975. Softcover : pp. [12] : 22 cream stapled booklets. A little age toned around edges. More
Princeton: Kitchen Sink Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover : pp. [5] 159 [1 blank] : illustrated throughout : limited edition of 1,250 copies of which this is number 188 : tipped in illustration signed by both authors to front free-endpaper : illustrated endpapers : navy blue boards with lettering and..... More
