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Australian Poetry Books & Ephemera
For Australia and other Poems 1st Edition
by Lawson, Henry
Melbourne: The Standard Publishing Company , 1913. 1st Edition. paperback. Good. 12mo. 1st Edition Henry Lawson collection, including (amongst others) the famous Freedom on the Wallaby; scattered foxing - heavy to prelims and last few pages, tape stains to front endpaper; heavy tanning to text block, stain to fore-edge; wraps rubbed and foxed, wear to spine (with loss to foot).
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NZ$64.53
No. 14 Friendly St. Poetry Reader
by Paech, Neil & Jenkin, Timoney [Editors]
Adelaide: Wakefield Press. 1990. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 119 pages. An anthology of South Australian poetry. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$20.03
Sprigs of Wattle A Collection of Aussie Bush Verse (Signed copy)
by O'Brien, Maurie
Adelaide: Self Published by the Author. 2001. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Inscribed & signed by the author. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 79 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$16.69
After the Assassination and other poems
by Simpson, R. A
Brisbane: Jacaranda Press. 1968. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 49 pages.. Ronald Simpson was an Australian poet and poetry editor, artist and art lecturer. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$16.69
Friendly Street New Poets 19 . The meteorology of enjambment; Soundings; Eye Print
by Greenhalgh, Bruce; Aitken, Geoffrey; Vouis, Maria. Edited byEdie Eicas
Norwood, SA: Friendly Street Poets. 2018. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Card covers. Signed by Bruce Greenhalgh. Introduction by Nigel Ford. 87 pages. The work of the three winners of the Friendly Street Poets, New Poets competition. The blurb on the back is written by Thom Sullivan the judge of the competition and provides an insight as to what made these poets the winners. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$22.25
Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes: Poetical Works of Adam Lindsay Gordon [Australian Classics
by Adam Lindsay Gordon
Lloyd O'Neil, Australia, 1970. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. 390 pages. Light foxing to outer page edges. Dust jacket has light fading to spine edge. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian Poetry, Prose, Verse; Poetry; Inventory No: 265008..
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NZ$16.69
Blur Friendly Street Poets 29
by Walker, Amelia and Shen (Edited by)
Adelaide: Friendly Street Poets in association with Wakefield Press. 2005. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 109 pages. An anthology of South Australian poetry of 2004. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$22.25
RIBBONS OF STEEL Poems and Stories
by Morrow, Paula (Editor)
Newcastle, NSW: Hunter Writer's Centre. 1999. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Front free endpaper clipped at top corner. Black & white illustrations. 269 pages. An anthology of creative work on the theme of ' industrial development in the Hunter since 1901' with an Introduction by Bruce Dawe. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$22.25
Poems 1972-2002
by Leunig, Michael
Melbourne: Viking. 2003. Small Octavo Size. Very good condition. Laminated pictorial boards. Illustrations by Leunig. 113 pages. Poems by the notable Australian poet, cartoonist Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.and commentator. Leunig was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust in 1999. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$20.03
From Sunset to Dawn
by Ogilvie, Will H
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1946. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in lightly rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. frontispiece photo of Will Ogilvie 1st Edition of this collection of poems by Will H. Ogilvie, author of Fair Girls and Gray Horses; b&w frontispiece photo of the poet; gift-inscription to front pastedown, bookshop stamp to front endpaper, mild stains to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed.
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NZ$22.25
Collected Poems 1940-1995
by Hewett, Dorothy; Grono, William (ed)
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1995. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collected poems of Dorothy Hewett, covering over five decades of output; poems from Early Poems, Another Beginning, Rapunzel in Suburbia, Greenhouse, Alice in Wormland, Peninsula, and Recent Poems; edited with an introduction by William Grono.
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NZ$36.72
Towards Sunrise Poems 1979-1986
by Dawe, Bruce
Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1986. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collection of Bruce Dawe's poems from between the years 1979-1986; tippex strip along top edge of front endpaper, minor knock top text block, mild toning to edges of some pages, spine sunned, o.w. Very Good.
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NZ$27.82
Beyond The Subdivisions 1st Edition
by Dawe, Bruce
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1969. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition of Bruce Dawe's fourth book of poems; former owner's name to prelims, scattered foxing, o.w. Very Good; mild creases to dustwrapper, o.w. Very Good.
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NZ$22.25
Between Two Tides 1st Edition
by Fitzgerald, Robert D
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1952. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in rubbed/foxed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Norman Lindsay frontispiece illustration 1st Edition of RD Fitzgerald's long narrative poem, most of which is set in Tonga; b&w frontispiece illustration by Norman Lindsay; foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, toning to edges of pages throughout, o.w. G-VG; dustwrapper heavily foxed, heavy tanning to spine, closed tear along spine (with acid-free tape repair to reverse side).
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NZ$22.25
The Last Hours of a Lion Heart: A Threnody
by LINGHAM, Henry Charles J
London and Melbourne: Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover : pp. [12] 13-103 [6] of adverts and list of subscribers : title page printed in red and black : frontispiece portrait with tissue guard : foliate printed e.p.s : original red cloth with gilt lettering : inscribed and initialled by the author on the half-title page. Boards flecked lightly, minor wear to extremities. A very good first printing. Miller/Macartney, p290.
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NZ$111.26
A Taste Of Salt Water
by Shapcott, Thomas W
Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1967. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. A nice copy. Slight wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 82 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$27.82
Surface to Air
by Savige, Jaya
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Jaya Savige's second collection, a volume in the UQP Poetry Series; mild toning to edges of pages throughout, o.w. Very Good.
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NZ$22.25
A Sometimes River: The Story of a Kangaroo
by Blashki, Pam (Text) and Pugh, Clifton (Paintings and Drawings)
Melbourne: Lothian Publishing Co. 1986. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. New book. Illustrated with colour paintings and drawings by Clifton Pugh. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated. A story of drought and flood, powerfully illustrated by the Pugh. . New. 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$15.58
Calling Me Home The romance of South Australia in story and song
by Jenkin, Graham [written and composed by]
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.
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NZ$20.03
Segments of the Bowl
by Robert Clark
F.W. Cheshire, Australia, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 43 pages. A bit worn around the edges with a few bumps collected no doubt over the years from normal use.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian Poetry, Prose, Verse; Poetry; Inventory No: 230281. .
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NZ$16.69
Selected Verse
by Gilmore, Mary
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1948. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. sm 8vo. Selected poems of Mary Gilmore, with foreword by Robert D Fitzgerald; poems from The Passionate Heart, The Wild Swan, Under The Wilgas, Battlefields, The Rue Tree, The Disinherited, Marri'd and other Verses, The Tilted Cart; bookshop label to front pastedown, gift-inscription to half-title page, foxing to endpapers/prelims/text block, o.w. Good throughout; boards rubbed and with foxing to spine.
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NZ$24.48
The Bush Balladeer and Other Poems
by Zillah Williams
Private Publication, Australia, 2019. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Written between 2016 and 2019, this is a collection of 52 bush poems inspired by life in Australia. Many of the poems have been inspired by colourful individuals and actual events. Have you seen the water come down a dry river bed or heard about the Cowra Breakout? Or heard the story of the Tiwi Islander who captured the first prisoner of war on Australian soil in 1942? What about interesting places like Coleambally and...
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NZ$13.35
Voices from the Heart contemporary Aboriginal Poetry from Central Australia collected and edited by Roger Bennett
by Bennett, Roger (ed)
Alice Springs: IAD Press , 1995. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good . 8vo. Collection of work by Aboriginal poets from Central Australia, collected, edited and with a preface by Roger Bennett; former owner's name to prelims, o.w. Very Good.
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NZ$22.25
Harvest The Love Poems
by Arthur, John
Adelaide: Leanne Press Books. 2007. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations. With an Introduction by Margaret Muller, Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 181 pages. Prize-winning South Australian poet's third collection of poetry. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$16.69
Mortal Instruments Poems 1990-1995
by Dawe, Bruce
Melbourne: Longman, 1995. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Poems by Bruce Dawe between the years 1990-1995; mild knock lower text block, wraps lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good.
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NZ$22.25
