Canterbury, Vic: The Galleon Press, 1920. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [4] 7-38 : beige paper covers with gum leaf illustration. Edges of cover tender and nicked; cover a little grubby, occasional fox mark throughout. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [4] 128 : dark blue cloth boards : gilt to spine : green and blue unclipped jacket. Top edge foxed; eps foxed near hinge; light wear to jacket edges. Part of the Poetry Introduction Series. Poets included are John Cassidy..... More
Melbourne: Black Inc., 2008. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [iv] xiii [xiv] [2] 306 : pale blue paper cover with bird of prey illustration. Some age toning to edges of text block; light wear to cover. More
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [iv] ix [x] [2] 267 [270 : cream paper covers with drawing of author by Gary Shead. More
Sydney: Plurist Press, 1976. Second Edition. Softcover : pp. [28] : one of 400 printed on Burnie bulky paper from a total printing of 500 ; mustard paper covers, lettering in green and black. ''It's probably the wrong century to start talking muses, but Adamson gives an old waif new..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1994. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [x] [2] 97 [102] : beige paper covers with yellow, red and brown design. More
London: TR Press, 1976. First Edition. Softcover card pamphlet : pp. [16] : white cover with detail from water colour by Laura Maggi (wrongly printed as 'Naggi'). Printed by Ithaca Press. Ithaca Press is an academic non-fiction imprint and maintains a special focus on a wide range of issues pertaining..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1996. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [8] [2] 102 : illustrated cover. More
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
London: TR Press, 1976. First Edition. Softcover card pamphlet : [16] : white cover with detail from water colour by Laura Maggi : ''STYLE'' written in pencil to front and correction of artists name in pen suggests perhaps this is a proof copy. Printed by Ithaca Press. Ithaca Press is..... More
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
Perth: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1977. Memnuna Vila-Bogdanich. Softcover : pp. [10] 1-49 [50] [4 blank] : illustrated throughout with drawings by Memnuna Vila-Bogdanich : white paper cover with black text and illustration : author portrait to lower cover. A small spray of faint foxmarks to the top joint. In The..... More
Perth: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [12] 69 [72] : beige paper cover : dust jacket illustrated with paintings by Douglas Chambers : portrait of author by Tania Yong. ''The flow of the verse, the cadence, picks it's way unerringly down the pages, and we..... More
Perth: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1982. Ian Wroth. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [10] 57 [57] : drawings by Ian Wroth : blue, brown and white illustrated cover : '1983 Western Australian Week Literary Award' sticker to front Foxing to edges. 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
Brisbane: Makar Press, 1979. Stapled pamphlet : 32pp : purple gatefold card wraps lettered in white. Cover rubbed and scuffed, ink stamp and 1mm mark to title page. From the library of poet and artist Billy Jones (1935-2012), and unlike most of his books, this one is completely unmarked by..... More
Manchester: Carcanet, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] [2] 216 [220] : blue cloth boards : gilt to spine : red dust jacket design by Stephen Raw. Minor creasing to jacket front corner head. John Ashbery was recognized as one of the greatest 20th-century American poets. He won nearly..... More
Manchester: Carcanet, 1988. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] [2] 160 [2 blank] : black cloth boards : bold gilt to spine : blue flecked dust jacket : jacket not price clipped. Head of spine gently pushed; creasing to jacket edge; small nick to jacket head. John Ashbery..... More
Manchester: Carcanet, 1982. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover : pp. [x] 50 : chocolate brown cloth boards : gilt to spine : mustard and blue jacket. Faint age toning to block edges; light dimples to jacket. Following important accomplishments in various long forms - notably the major poems that distinguished 'Self-Portrait..... More
Melbourne: Penguin, 1990. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [11] 1-48 [21] : portrait of author : 10 pages of notes : blue cover illustrated by Mick Kemp. Age toning to endpapers and margins of pages. More
London: Faber and Faber, n.d. (1954). Saddle-stitched. Single poem saddle stitched pamphlet, one leaf inserted between the covers, illustrated title page, illustration, poem. Yellow covers in pink envelope. Envelope slightly abraded where previously sealed. One of the second Ariel series produced by Faber and Faber in 1956 that also included..... More
New York: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2006. First Edition. Card wraps. [Small press] chapbooks, hand stitched, pp (4) 5-27 (5). Published in March 2016. The text is set in in Goudy Old Style. The cover is letterpress printed on a Vandercook SP-15 press. Dove grey endpapers. Signed at colophon. Designed..... More
Andra Sheinkopf at the Yggdrasil Press, 2019. Limited Edition. Paperback, 52pp (unpaginated), apple green covers with title in black, black crow on the rear cover, signed by Baatz at the colophon, Baatz rubber stamp on verso of the colophon. Ronald Baatz is a "“master…in the high art of the short..... More
West Sayville, New York: Tideline Press, 2005. First Edition. Card covers. [Seastone Editions]. Small poetry book (165mm x 123mm), unpaginated (28pp). Haiku by Ronald Baatz, book design and relief prints by Leornard Seastone. Illustrated soft card covers, blue endpapers. Titling hand set in Monotype Bold and letterpress printed on a...... More
Troy, NY: Black Fig Press, 2023. First Edition. Softcover : small format (140 x108mm) : pp. (2) 101 (3, including colophon) : black free e.p.s within handmade paper e.p.s : tan covers lettered in black : artwork on title page by Baatz : SIGNED by poet and publisher. Most recent..... More