![The Antipodean. An Illustrated Annual [1892]. Edited by George Essex Evans and John Tighe Ryan....](/pictures/thumb/70804_01.jpg?v=1587520831)
London, George Robertson, 1893 (second edition) and 1894. The title leaves are laid down on fine blank paper to mask advertising on the verso; the contents leaves are numbered xxiii-xxiv and xiii-xiv respectively, with the running title 'The Antipodean Advertisements' at the head of each page. Contributors include Rolf Boldrewood..... More
Melbourne, Thomas C. Lothian, 1907 and 1908. A rare Australian poetry magazine, with each number limited to 500 numbered copies. The first one is out of series; the other three, with individual titles ('The Book of the Opal'; 'The Shadow on the Hill'; and 'Fire o' the Flame') are numbers..... More
Adelaide, F.W. Preece, 1940. More
Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, 1924. More
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1918. The last five sonnets are war poems: August 1914, Anzac, Glory, Peace, and Roses. More
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983. Inscribed, signed and dated (8 May 1986) by the author to John Bray, South Australian Chief Justice and poet. More
Adelaide, Sands & McDougall, 1886. The list of 60 "Subscribers to this Volume for Five Copies and Upwards" on page 64 includes many of the leading lights of Adelaide. More
Dublin, Gallery Press, 1981. A presentation copy to 'Colin and Cynthia' (Professor Colin Horne and his wife), with a two-line verse inscription signed by the author. Loosely inserted is a colour photograph (112x152mm), taken by the author, of Professor Horne and his son Dr John Horne resting on the grass..... More
London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More
London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924 [first edition]. More
London, Faber and Faber, 1937. More
London, Faber, 1957. With a contemporary review (from the New Statesman) loosely inserted. More
Wellington, Glover/ Mermaid Press, 1957. More
Sydney, South Head Press, 1968. Presentation copy signed, dated (July 1968) and warmly inscribed to the South Australian poet Robert Clark and his wife Dorothy. More
Sydney, Beaujon Press, 1961. Number 206 of 300 copies; this copy is inscribed and signed to fellow-poet, the South Australian Robert Clark. More
London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1857. More
London, Grant Richards, 1897. The following is printed on the verso of the half-title, facing the title page: 'Of this book there is a very limited edition printed on Japanese vellum numbered and signed by the Author'. This copy is not numbered or signed, nor is it printed on Japanese..... More
Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1966 [first edition]. Loosely inserted is a typed lettercard (dated 22 September 1968) warmly inscribed and signed by the author (twice); the note thanks John Colmer (sometime Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Adelaide) and his wife (Dorothy) for their hospitality during his recent..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1971. '"Apparition" is the brilliantly imaginative outcome of the close friendship that developed between the English poet and critic, and the Australian painter. Containing twenty-one poems and seven vivid gouaches the book began life as a personal response from the painter to the work..... More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1964 (third edition)/ 1926. More
Sydney, Designed and printed by Edwards and Shaw for the Lyre-Bird Writers.. 1954. With the ownership signature of SA poet Robert Clark. More
London, Folio Society, 1989. Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. More
A lengthy patriotic poem (twelve four-line stanzas) dated at the end 'Italia March 1900'. Under the pseudonym 'Arthur Ferres', John William Kevin (circa 1843-1903) wrote several Australian boys' adventure books and published one volume of verse. 'The Contingent', presumably unpublished, is very much a product of its time and place..... More
