London: W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1772. First Edition. calf. Quarto : pp. xi (i) [3] 4-380 [2, blank] : pink silk bookmark : contemporary marbled calf : five raised bands to spine with gilt ornamentation and dark brown title panel lettered in gilt; bookplate. Lacks original portrait frontis but..... More
Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877-1878. First thus. Complete in six volumes, uniformly bound : Volumer I pp. xvi [6] 349 [3]; nine illustrations : Volume II pp.xviii [2] 351 [1]; five illustrations : Volume III pp. xx [2] 362 [2]; four illustrations : Volume IV pp.ix [1] 435 [3] four illustrations..... More
Clairvaux: Trianon Press, 1973. Limited Edition. Quarto: 6 colour facsimile leaves : 5 pp. of commentary : quarter black morocco : slipcase. 367 of 750 copies bound in quarter leather morocco with hand-marbled paper sides. Bentley, Blake Books, A15. “Blake suppressed the “Book of Ahania” and recast her tale in..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1855-1857. First Edition in original parts. (20 Parts published in 19). Housed in a custom made silk solander box with leather labels. All plates present including the dark plates and the frontispiece and vignette title. Includes Rigaud for Bladois at Part 15 (ten times as per..... More
Sydney ; Melbourne ; Auckland ; London: Allen and Unwin, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [x] [1] 214 : beautifully illustrated throughout : foreword by Peter Underwood : illustrated boards and jacket. Top block edge foxed. More
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Reprinted. Softcover : 30.5 x 23 cm : pp. [xxii] [2] 858 : 48 pages of illustrations : lovely light grey cover with vignette Light creasing to spine. More
Singapore: National Archives of Singapore and Epigram, 2005. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [7] 345 [352] : illustrated throughout : foreword by Kwok Kian-Woon : acronyms, terms and Japanese occupation bodies : pictorial endpapers : white covers with barbwire design in red. Light foxing to top edge of block; head..... More
Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] xli [1 blank] [2] 754 [4 blank] : figures, diagrams and tables : foreword by Ghislain de Marily : white boards with water and rock wall image. Small patches of abrasion to head of spine; boards a little..... More
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2006. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [vii] xiv [xv] 310 [312] : figures and tables : white cover with green design. Previous owner's name to first page; text block edges a little grubby. More
Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2004. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [6] 136 [140] : white cover with image of in red by Megan Keating. Cover and block a little curled at head. More
Temple, Texas: Balcones International Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [viii] [2] 86 : colourfully illustrated cover. Block top edge foxed;. More
Adelaide: R. Alistair McAlpine, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [1] 56 : illustrated throughout in colour : light brown boards : illustrated jacket Relevant newspaper clippings loosely inserted; faint rub marks to jacket back. The Ern Malley literary hoax perpetrated on Angry Penguins editor Max Harris by poets James..... More
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [v] xciii [xciv] [5] 477 [3 blank] : frontispiece : charcoal cloth boards : gilt to spine : olive green price clipped jacket Head and tail very gently pushed, repeated on jacket; bump to upper board..... More
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1996. Bevan Hayward (Pooraraar). First Edition. Softcover : pp. [vi] xi [xii] [1] 160 [4 blank] : 39 illustrations by Bevan Hayward (Pooaraar) : pale blue pictorial covers. Scatter of foxing to block top edge; tail of spine gently pushed. In 2016, twenty years after his..... More
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2001. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [8] 111 [1 blank] : montage design to cover. Top edge foxed. ''...an almost unfailing dazzling group of new poems...an astounding meditation on memory and perception.'' - Margot Schilp, Verse. More
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2003. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [viii] xxvii [xxviii] [2] 624 [4 blank] : white cover illustrated with Common Heron from Gould's Bird's of Europe. Sprinkle of fox spots to block top edge. One of Scottland's greatest pets and thinkers who spent much of his life living and..... More
Manchester: Carcanet, 2000. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [iv] xv [xvi] [2] 94 [96] : 20 illustrations : white cover with repeat portrait motif. Small mark to tail of block. "Cyprian Kamil Norwid was a Polish poet, dramatist, painter, sculptor, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the four..... More
Riverdale-on-Hudson: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1987. Revised Edition. Softcover : pp. [iv] vii [x] 103 [7 blank] : translated from the Hungarian by Steven Polgar, Stephen Berg, and S.J. Marks : illustrated jacket. Top edge of block foxed. "Miklos Radnoti was born in Budapest in 1909, and orphaned at the..... More
Edinburgh: Macdonald, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] xiv [1] 283 [3 blank] : English and Gaelic text : poems translated by the poet himself : black cloth boards : gilt to spine : jacket illustration by Dòmhnall Thomson. Tail of spine and head corner gently pushed; jacket edges..... More
Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [x] xvii [2] 4 - 432 [446] : illustrated throughout including colour plates : black cloth boards : black dust jacket with cockatoo illustration. Head and tail of spine a little rubbed and pushed; board edges also a...... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1974. Second Impression. Hardcover : pp. [xii] [2] 100 : light green cloth boards : gilt to spine : rust coloured jacket with design by Stanley Hickson. Head and tail of spine and head corners very gently pressed; jacket edges a little pressed. George Mackay Brown..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xxi [xxii] [2] 838 [4 blank] : black cloth boards : argent to spine : jacket illustration of poet by Sue Linney. Vertical crease to spine; age toned block text edges; head and tail of jacket spine gently pushed;..... More
Melbourne: Gryphon, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover : 27 x 22.5 cm : pp. [4] 58 [60] : over 30 illustrations, many full page and colour : signed by Donald Friend to sub title page : bright yellow cloth boards : illustrated jacket Foxing to endpapers and verso of free-endpapers; a...... More
Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London: University of California Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [ix] lxvi [2] 816 [2 blank] : teal cloth boards : photo illustrations : teal cloth boards : illustrated jacket. Block edges foxed; ink stain to fore-edge of pages lxii - lxiii; tide mark..... More
