Poetry from Adelaide Booksellers

Adelaide: Australian Letters. 1970. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light rubbing to dustjacket. Whilst a limited edition of 1000 copies , this book appears to be an out of sequence copy. A previous, enterprising owner has provided… Read more about this item

London: Frederick Warne and Co.. No Date Circa 1874. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Decorated dark green leather with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Marbled endpapers and gilt to edges. Some faint age-toning to spine. Bookplate to Front Pastedown and further owner's details to flyleaf. Illustrated with full… Read more about this item

London: Walter Scott. n.d. 16mo. [approx 10cm x 17cm]. Very Good Condition. Some flecking to dark green boards. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 280 pages + advertisements. The Canterbury Poets series . Reprint. Hardback.

Chapel Hill, USA: The University of North Carolina Press. 1993. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxxv, 218 pages. The Carmina Burana is the finest collection of medieval Latin lyrics, especially love lyrics. This anthology contains 60 love lyrics in the original Lating with prose translations and commentaries. . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1897. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good Condition. Blue boards are marked and rubbed with age-toning to spine. Endpapers tanned with faint discolouration to the fore edges of the first few pages. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Black & white illustrations by Mahony, Lambert and… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Lothian Publishing Co. 1944. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is chipped at spine ends and corners, xvii, 286 pages. The collected poems of Bernard O'Dowd, notable Australian poet and radical. Also includes several essays by O'Dowd. Robust,… Read more about this item

Adelaide: The Hassell Press. 1934. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. The dustjacket is age-toned with some light chipping to top of spine and upper corners. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 233 pages. Alexander Melrose… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press. 1956. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ is age-toned with small tears to spine ends and upper edge and some tiny chips to corners. Illustrated with Black and White plates. xliii, 465 pages. The … Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press. 1955. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with 7 plates including one large fold-out of the hand written poem 'Harry Ploughman.' The price clipped & age-toned DJ is chipped at upper front corner with smaller chips… Read more about this item

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press. 1955. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with 4 plates including one large fold-out of the hand written poem 'Fallen Rain'. The price clipped & age-toned DJ is chipped at corners and spine ends - especially… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine is age-toned with a small sticker 'ghost' to the upper front panel. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xlvi, 445 pages. The most complete collection of… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus. 1933. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ has a couple of small chips to spine tail and some faint marking to fore edge. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages (twice). Contains a lengthy… Read more about this item

London: G. Routledge & Co.. 1854. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Ornate leather binding with gilt to edges. Some rubbing to book edges and paper at hinges is cracked but binding solid. Some quite faint foxing to preliminary pages. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Lovely detailed black &… Read more about this item

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2004. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. 105 pages. Coetzee's finely wrought translations side-by-side with the original Dutch poems. Highlights the work of six of the most important modern… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Penguin. 1988. Octavo Size [approx 14x21cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 213 pages. Forty angry voices are heard in this first anthology of Aboriginal poetry. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Frederick Warne and Co.. No Date. Circa 1890s?. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Some mild rubbing and corners very lightly bumped. 438 pages + Publisher's Catalogue. This edition contains a Glossary and a Life of Thomas Percy and some additional footnotes by the Editor. First published in 1765. Robust,… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber. 2009. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial boards. Cover design by Clare Curtis. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 114 pages. First published in 1954, this special edition commemorates Faber's 80th anniversary. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Melbourne: Hyland House. 1992. Quarto Size [approx 19x27cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 63 pages. The poetry leads the reader through the Bush conversing with the wonderful diversity of creatures who inhabit the land.… Read more about this item

Adelaide: South Australian College of Advanced Education. 1989. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 329 pages. Includes both words and musical scores. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Odhams Press Ltd. 1935. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with five full-page colour plates by Anne Anderson (all present) and numerous in-text black & white drawings. Introduction by John R. Crossland. 768 pages. A selection of stories and poems from famous authors and poets. - nearly 150 in all. … Read more about this item