Speak with the Sun
London, Chatto & Windus, 1949. The author's scarce first book. More
London, Chatto & Windus, 1949. The author's scarce first book. More
Sydney, Writelite, 2009. Signed by photographer John Peel on the title page. Loosely inserted is a colour photograph signed by John Peel. More
London, The Bodley Head, 1949, 1957 and 1960 (all first editions). As 'much at ease with the elegance and bawdyness of a pre-Christian like Horace as with a writer like Baudelaire, nourished in the Christian European tradition' (dustwrapper blurb on the last volume). [3 items]. More
London, Boriswood Limited, 1932. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1909. With the later (1954) ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin. More
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, 1868. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995, Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide), with his bookplate. More
Adelaide, Vardon & Sons, Printers, 1916. On the verso of the front flyleaf is an expansive thank-you note signed by the author (15 August 1916): 'Dear Mr Adey, May I ask you to accept of this little booklet as a memento of the improvement which has already shown itself in..... More
[Paris], Gallimard, 1966. Part of the 'Bibliothèque de la Pléiade' series; the text is in French. More
[Paris], Gallimard, 1967. Part of the 'Bibliothèque de la Pléiade' series; the text is in French. More
London, Oxford University Press, 1968/ 1967. More
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. 'This volume - featuring J.M. Coetzee's finely wrough English translations side-by-side with the originals..... More
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1956. With the contemporary ink ownership signature of anthropologist Graeme Pretty. William Collins (1721-1759), 'pre-Romantic English poet whose lyrical odes adhered to Neoclassical forms but were Romantic in theme and feeling' ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). More
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2007. Number 88 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. More
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Nine of the poems are about cricket. Padwick 6494. More
Adelaide, The Author, 1997 [first edition]. Number 222 of only 300 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Adelaide, The Author, 1991. Signed by the author and the artist in ink on the title page. From the author's foreword: 'This light-hearted nonsense was written in 1933 for the amusement of my fellow-students in Marie Tuck's life-drawing class. I was eighteen and in my first year at the South..... More
Oxford, The Daniel Press, 1903. 'A noteworthy experiment in versification by Robert Bridges [later poet laureate] in the form of an Epistle to L.M.... It will be seen that the poem is in (438) quantitative hexameters, modified in accordance with Stone's phonetic system, in which all syllables in English are..... More
Oxford, 'Printed by Daniel' [Daniel Press], [1893] to 1894. Each part is number 92 of 150 copies printed. 'This work in six pieces, when put together, forms the most considerable publication of the Daniel Press, and is well printed and almost an édition de luxe ... A prospectus issued in..... More
Oxford, 'Printed by H. Daniel' [The Daniel Press], 1890 (corrected reprint)/ 1889. Number 57 of only 100 copies. 'This is a corrected reprint (of a hundred copies), occasioned by the speedy sale of ... the first (enlarged) edition, the demand for the book, and a piracy in America. It is..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2009 (first thus). The superb miniatures by Giovanni di Paolo (circa 1403-1482) were commissioned for a manuscript edition of Dante's 'Divine Comedy' presented to Alfonso V, king of Aragon, Naples and Sicily around 1444 and now held by the British Library (Yates Thompson MS 36). This..... More
London, Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Jr., 1931. English hunting literature; 'a penetrating criticism of the poetry and prose of the late war - and a contrast of it with previous English war literature'. More
London, Faber and Faber, 1943. More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1922. Number 40 of only 110 copies of the large-paper edition signed by both the poet and the artist (of which 100 were offered for sale). More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. More