Poetry
Broomsticks and Other Tales
London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. Provenance: 'R.N. Finlayson | from W.J. Isbister | 7.12 35' is written in ink on the front free endaper. Ronald Nickels (Jack) Finlayson (1882-1945), was a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, a member..... More
Ding Dong Bell
London, Selwyn and Blount, 1924. Number 96 of only 300 copies numbered and signed by the author, and the pencilled ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More
Memoirs of a Midget
London, Collins, 1921. Number 96 of only 210 copies signed by the author. More
Peacock Pie
London, Constable, 1913 (second impression). With the pencilled ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent, inscribed 'Cambridge, 1961'. More
Poems, 1901 to 1918
London, Constable, 1920. Each volume is signed by the author and limited to 210 copies; Volume 1 is number 152 and Volume 2 is number 76. More
The Return
London, Collins, 1922 [revised edition]/ 1910. Number 218 of 250 copies signed by the author. More
Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination. A Lecture
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1919. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More
A Snowdrop
London, Faber, 1929. Number 20 in the Ariel Poems series; this is number 254 of 500 large-paper copies signed by the author and printed on hand-made paper. More
Backblock Ballads and Other Verses
Melbourne, E.W. Cole, Book Arcade, [1913]. The author's first published book. The front cover illustration is by David Low; the last six pages are a glossary 'for the use of the thoroughly genteel'. McLaren 243. The Institute of Australian Culture contains on its website some interesting information about this book..... More
Where the Wind Goes
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1939. More
Child with a Cockatoo and Other Poems
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1955 (first edition). With the ownership signature of Colin Thiele. Loosely inserted is The Bulletin's review (by Douglas Stewart), a little sunned and chipped at the edges. More
In a Convex Mirror. Poems
Sydney, Dymock's Book Arcade, 1944. More
In a Convex Mirror. Poems
Sydney, Dymock's Book Arcade, 1944. Inscribed and signed by the poet 'For Alan Brissenden, Rosemary Dobson'. More
Untold Lives & Later Poems
Rose Bay, Brandl & Schlesinger, 2001 (second impression)/ 2000. Inscribed and signed by the author 'For Rosemary Dunlop, with love from Rosemary Dobson-Bolton'. More
Rosemary Dobson. A Celebration
Canberra, Friends of the National Library of Australia, 2000. Loosely inserted is an autograph postcard from Rosemary Dobson to Rosemary Dunlop, written both sides, regarding the appreciation of poetry. More
The Poems of John Donne. Edited from the old editions and numerous manuscripts with introductions and commentary by Herbert J.C. Grierson. Volume I: The Text of the Poems with Appendixes [and] Volume II: Introduction and Commentary
London, Oxford University Press, 1980 (facsimile edition)/ 1912. [2 items]. More
Streets of the Long Voyage
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1970. The scarce first published collection by Australian counter-culture poet Michael Dransfield, who died in 1973 aged 24. Paperback Poets 2. More
The Collected Poems of John Drinkwater. Volume I: 1908-1917 [and] Volume II: 1917-1922
London, Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1923. 'Of this Edition on hand-made paper 230 copies have been printed, of which not more than 200 are for sale in Great Britain. This is number [Overseas 19].' Signed by the author beneath the preface. [2 items]. More
Immanuel's Land. Stories
Auckland, The Pilgrim Press, 1956. More
The Poems of Thomas Carew with his Masque Coelum Britannicum. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by ...
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1970/ 1957 (corrected edition)/ 1949. More
Findings and Keepings. Selected Poems, 1939-1969
Adelaide, Australian Letters, 1970. Number 408 of 1000 numbered and signed copies (of which 950 were for sale). This copy is inscribed on the limitation page, 'Ethel/ for our across-street good neighbour', and signed 'Geoff'. More
The Vital Decade. Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters
Melbourne, Sun Books, 1968. Signed by the Geoffrey Dutton and Max Harris on the verso of the half title. More