How He Died and Other Poems
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [v] vii (paginated as vi) [viii] [1] 114 [116] xi -lxv [lxvi] 32pp. of adverts : frontispiece portrait with tissue guard : Cyril Goodes's copy with his signature and publisher's review slip loosely inserted : red cloth boards : top edge gilt : gilt lettering to spine.
Head and tail of spine pressed; tanning and foxing to endpapers, block edges, first and last few leaves; thin worn patch to title page near head. Good. Item #6745
Originally published in 1887, this edition includes a 35-page memoir by Bertram Stevens and shorter comments and poems in honour of Stevens by Victor Daley, F. J. Broomfield and F. C. Kendall. Although Farrell was a minor poetic voice in the nationalistic radicalism of the 1890s, in his person and character he represented the best of that movement." (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature).
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