Rhymes without Reason
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython and Co., 'Advertiser' Office, 1898. A collection of humorous verse (topical and localized) by a son of the South Australian novelist Maud Jean Franc (Mrs E. Evans). More
Poetry
The Rakehelly Man and other Verses
Christchurch, Caxton Press, 1946. Inscribed and signed by the author. Lino-cuts by Robert Brett. More
All the Year Round
Glasgow, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. More
Between Sun and Moon. Poems and Wood-cuts
London, The Favil Press, 1922. Number 333 of 150 copies. More
A.D. 1583. Sir Humphrey Gilbert. A Record & a Surmise
Kensington, The Favil Press, 1921. More
English Madrigal Verse, 1588-1632. Revised and Enlarged by Frederick W. Sternfield and David Greer
London, Oxford University Press, 1967 (third, revised and enlarged, edition)/ 1920. With the pencilled ownership signature of Alan Brissenden (dated Adelaide, 18 January 1982). This new edition includes more than 270 additional lyrics with existing indexes revised and new ones supplied (one of foreign authors translated or imitated, and one..... More
New Guinea Poems
Port Moresby, Printed by Papua and New Guinea Printing [for the Author], 1968. Inscribed, dated (28 September 1972) and signed by the author. More
Home Town Elegy
London, PL Nicholson and Watson, 1944. More
Since Then
Wellington, Glover/ Mermaid Press, 1957. More
Brief Candles
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. The limitation page states: 'Unlimited edition'; nonetheless, scarce in our experience. More
Boabdil or "The Twilight of Granada" and Other Poems
London, Hodgson, 1928. More
Moresby Mice. A Souvenir of the Papuan Campaign
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, [1943?]. 'The Aussies and the Yanks in Papua' (cover sub-title). More
New Times and Old Rhymes
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1921. More
Love Poems
London, The Folio Press, 1990 (first thus). One of a small series of letterpress editions produced by The Folio Society under the Folio Press imprint. Selected, and with an introduction by, Sue Bradbury. More
Caelica
Newtown, The Gregynog Press, 1936 (first thus)/ 1633. Number 109 of 225 copies, printed 'under the direction of James Wardrop, at the Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire; finished the twenty-second day of October, 1936' (colophon). '[Greville's] "Caelica" (published 1633) begins as a conventional sonnet sequence but gradually abandons Neoplatonism for pessimistic..... More
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm of Burgdorf in Switzerland
London, Faber, 1941. More
Leaving Maps
Unley, Friendly Street Poets, 1984. Inscribed and signed by the author, dated 1986. More
These Little Things
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis and King, 1938. Number 28 of only 200 numbered copies signed by the poet. The only publication of the Western Australian-born Adelaide theatrical identity; 'forty-one poems set in Adelaide and the Solomon Islands where she lived on the island M'bangai, which she owned' (OCAL). More
The Coorong and Other Poems
Adelaide, Mary Martin Bookshop, 1955. More
The Coorong and Other Poems
Adelaide, Mary Martin Bookshop, 1955. More
The Gift of Blood. Poetry ...
Adelaide, Jindyworobak Club, [1940]. The poet's first separate publication. More
A Window at Night. Selected with an Introduction by Robert Clark
Adelaide, ABR Publications, 1967 [first edition]. Number 75 of 1000 numbered copies dated (November 1967) signed by Max Harris; in addition, this copy is one of approximately only 60 copies which have the word 'sea' omitted at the end of the second line on page 70. More
A Window at Night. Selected with an Introduction by Robert Clark
Adelaide, ABR Publications, 1967 [first edition]. Number 89 of 1000 numbered copies dated (November 1967) signed by Max Harris; in addition, this copy is one of approximately only 60 copies which have the word 'sea' omitted at the end of the second line on page 70. With the later pencilled..... More
Young Rain. New Poems
Artarmon, Giramondo, 2008. Inscribed and signed in ink by the author to Alan Brissenden ('For Alan, with warm wishes on a hot day, Kevin. Adelaide, 2010'). More
Comrades in Captivity. A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920. Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), English poet and officer in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment; 'he was captured on 17 August 1916 and spent the remainder of the war in prisoner-of-war camps. His first volume of poems, "A Gloucestershire Lad", was published shortly after..... More