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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1977. 1st Paperback. paperback. Very Good in lightly rubbed wraps. 8vo. First Paperback edition of this collection of Les Murray; Celtic designs to covers, prelims and title page, illustrated endpapers; mild tanning to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed, with some reading creases to spine.

Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1962. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition of Geoffrey Dutton's third book of poetry; former owner's name and very minor toning to endpapers, o.w. Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, lightly sunned to spine, o.w. Very Good.

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).

Sydney: Red Press, 1978. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good tight and clean in like dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Kurt Brereton dustwrapper photograph Collection of poems by Tom Thompson, being the first title published by Red Press Milson's Point Sydney; red stiff card wraps with dustwrapper - dustwrapper photo by Kurt Brereton; Very Good tight clean copy with no marks or flaws

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.

Melbourne: Fling Poetry, 1982. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w illustrations Cornelis Vleeskens' 5th collection of poems, being no 2 in the Fling Poets series; ink drawings by Jenni Mitchell.

Canberra: published by the author, 1977. Numbered limited edition. paperback. Very Good in lightly rubbed wraps. 8vo. First collection of poetry by Timoshenko Aslanides, and winner of The British Commonwealth Poetry Prize for 1978; No. 408 of 500 copies; Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed and with some spotting to front.

Melbourne : Pearson Education/Longman, 2003. Signed 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collection of poems and prose by Bruce Dawe, from between the years 1997-2002; Signed by Dawe and with short gift-inscription to title page.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1930. new enlarged. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 12mo. b&w frontispiece plate New enlarged edition of this classic collection of poems by Will Ogilvie; poems include 'Starry Camp', 'A White Man', 'The Mulga Mail', 'Mulga Maxims', etc; b&w frontispiece photo illustration of the poet; heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, o.w. Good.

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2002. 1st Edition. paperback. G-VG . 8vo. Collection of poems by Samuel Wagan Watson; pages tanned around edges throughout, o.w. Very Good.

Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1967. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. b&w frontispiece plate French edition of Child with a Cockatoo, Rosemary Dobson's collection of poems on the theme of art and artists, being a bi-lingual edition with original English and French translation on facing pages; also contains two poems from In a Convex Mirror, and three poems from The Ship of Ice; poems translated by Louis Dautheuil and Margaret Diesendorf; b&w frontispiece showing the painting L'enfant au Cacatoes; heavy foxing/tanning to front endpaper, lighter to rear and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout in lightly rubbed boards; dustwrapper rubbed and foxed, o.w. Good.

Armidale: Kardoorair Press, 1979. Limited to 300 copies. paperback. Very Good in worn wraps. 12mo. Collection of poems by two Australian poets, limited to 300 copies, being the first publication by Kardoorair Press Armidale; being a review copy with covering letter (loose inserted) giving background to both Loose Federation and Kardoorair Press; Very Good throughout; wraps with insect damage to front and rear (light-medium).

Sydney: Redress Press, 1985. Signed 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w photo illustrations Kate Llewellyn's third collection of poems, signed and with gift-inscription by Llewellyn to title page; minor creases to corners of some pages, minor crease to corner rear cover, o.w. Very Good

Gordon: H.E. Stone (printer), 1947. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in rubbed wraps. 8vo. hand-tipped frontispiece plate Collection of poems by Maude Woods, including a section of War Verses (WWII themes), Miscellaneous Verses, and two poems for children - privately printed by HE Stone; dedicated to the memory of Corporal R.F. Juchau ""Bim"" who passed away Ranau Prison Camp July 23rd 1945; includes hand-tipped frontispiece photo illustration of Juchau; printed blue wraps with yapp edges, and woodcut illustration to front; endpapers foxed, mild tanning to pages, staples a little rusted, but holding; wraps lightly rubbed, minor loss bottom rh corner.

Sydney: Halstead Press, no date. paperback. Good (ex-Fryer Library ). 12mo. Hugh McCrae's poem describing the fantastical meeting of a Mimshi maiden and a 'whisker-curling evil-omened tiger-fellow'; a single-poem chapbook, with illustration of the maiden to front cover, red cord binding (as well as staples!); Val Vallis' copy, signed by Vallis to reverse side of front cover, and marked 'for the Fryer' by Vallis above his name; presumably Vallis donated the book to the Fryer Library at University of Queensland; no publishing date - the poem was first published in 1938, and again in 1946; 3 x Fryer Library stamps, Fryer serial numbers to front cover and reverse side of front cover; wraps fairly heavily rubbed and foxed, with watermark top edge, and stain near lower edge; edgewear and minor loss to yapp edges, wraps split along spine (but holding); Good throughout.

Melbourne: Hyland House, 1994. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition of Dorothy Porter's classic crime thriller in verse; light toning to edges of pages, text block foxed, o.w. Very Good throughout in Very Good dustwrapper.

Brisbane: Gordon & Gotch, 1890. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Very Good (wear to rear board)/no dustwrapper. sm 8vo. Classic collection of poems published in Brisbane in 1890; Mary Hannay Foott was best known for her poem Where the Pelican Builds; her first collection of poems was published in 1885 - 'Morna Lee and other poems' is here designated as the 'second edition', but this refers to it being an expanded edition of 'Where the Pelican Builds and other poems', ie the complete text of 'Morna Lee and other poems' does not exist in a previous edition (all editions on Trove are also stated 2nd Ed.); nice blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and red borders and decorations to front board; ornate title page; label ghost to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good throughout; rear board with worn strip (1-2cm wide) along top and side edges.

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.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1976. 1st paperback. paperback. Very Good. 12mo. Collection of poems James McAuley, a volume in the A&R Poets of the Month series; printed green wraps in (original?) fitted Capel Cover pvc dustwrapper; mild foxing, mild toning to edges of pages, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed, mild crease to rear cover.

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1974. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition of David Malouf's second collection, scarce in hardback w/dustwrapper; former owner's name to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good tight and clean throughout; boards sunned to spine and top edges; dustwrapper sunned to spine and top rear panel, short closed tear lower front, 1x1cm loss top edge near spine, o.w. G-VG