The Beginning and the End, Collected Poems Tapa dura - 1983

Francetown, NH: The Typographeum Bookshop, 1983. A lovely but not perfect copy of this very rare book. A limited edition, this copy is #45/100 and signed by Kershaw on the rear endpage. Publisher's notes laid in. Red cloth covers have some very slight rubbing. Front endpage has erased pencil upper right corner. Otherwise, book is like new. Printed on high quality paper and includes two portraits of the poet. Close to fine, presents beautifully and rare indeed.. ISBN: 0930126122. Illus. by Anthony Palliser; Alannah Coleman. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1983. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 96 pp. Illus. 100 numbered copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. Alister Kershaw was already regarded, at seventeen, as one of Australia's most interesting poets. However his poetry appeared in severely limited editions, and this volume brings it all together for the first time. Alister's life was as interesting as his poetry too. As a young man in 1947 he went to Europe and eventually settled in France, first in Paris and then in retirement at a lovely cottage in a hamlet in the middle of the wine making region around Sancerre. He is perhaps now known most for his friendship with Richard Aldington and his unselfish support of Aldington when the latter fell on hard times and… Leer más

Francestown: Typographeum, 1983. 100 copies, of which this is no. 51, signed by author. Hardcover. Near fine. 88 p. 26 cm. 2 tipped-in portrait plates. Burgundy cloth. Wrapped in mylar (removed for photo). Some faint spotting to spine label. Spine a little bumped under label.

Typographeum, 1983-01-01. Hardcover. Good. .