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Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1980. Folio (390 × 290 mm), [viii], vi, 67 pages with numerous illustrations and 19 tipped-in plates (all but one in colour) and endpaper illustrations (all by Donald Friend). Half black morocco and purple velvet; a fine copy in the slipcase (a little marked). 'Rochester's Lyrical, lewd & licentious poems were circulated only in manuscript during his lifetime. The earliest printed Editions appeared a year after his Death. But "The Farce of Sodom" was never printed in England. For centuries its fame (or notoriety) depended on crude Continental imprints. Consequently, in England "Sodom" was a sort of obscene literary rumour, like Sullivan's ( - or was it Gilbert's?) suppressed "Sod's Opera", except to those who had privileged access to a few manuscript copies, only two of which are known to have survived until the present day. Thus this Edition is issued with a handwritten Text in keeping with the Manuscript… Leer más

Original leather bindings over boards with new spine binding. This is the first, full, English original edition (not an extract), translated from the French by E S Gent.

The classic work by Alan Moorehead in very fine first edition, red boards with yellow dustjacket.

Vance Palmer's original work on Australia historic themes from the gold age of the prosperous 1890s. Good original condition.