This next catalogue is all about poetry. The list is broken up into Anthologies, then Classic poets; Modern Poets; Antipodean poetry; Literary Biographies of poetical types; Children's collections; and finally, Ephemeral items of a poetic nature. If there's anything here that appeals, let us know by contacting us at moroccobooks1000@gmail.com.
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Anthologies:
(73236)
Lord David Cecil, The
English Poets - Britain in Pictures series, Adprint Ltd. London, London,
1947.
Octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 48pp., with 8 colour plates and monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; boards bowed; spine extremities pulled; text block edges toned; offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; school prize bookplate to the flyleaf; scattered foxing to the preliminaries; school crest impressed in gilt to the lower board. Dustwrapper is well rubbed and edgeworn; some chipping along the spine panel with some loss of text; spine panel sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good.
The Britain in Pictures series is highly sought-after and this is one of the rarer titles.
$45
(74944)
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo
Salter & Jon Stallworthy (eds.), The Norton Anthology of Poetry - Fourth
Edition, W.W. Norton & Company Inc., New York NY. 1970.
Octavo; paperback; 1,998pp. Mild wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn with some creasing; a few small marks and some light sunning to the text block edges; previous owner's name in ink to the first page. Very good.
$20
(76093) Various (R. Paterson, et.al.,
illus.), Roses & Holly and Pen & Pencil Pictures from the Poets -
Profusely Illustrated, William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh Scotland UK, 1883.
Octavo; hardcover, full decorated cloth
with bevelled boards, gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations, a
blind-stamped lower board and decorative endpapers; 152pp., all edges gilt,
with many engraved monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; shaken; hinges
cracked; spine extremities softened; some minor insect damage to the lower
board; flyleaf removed; previous owner's name in ink to the half-title page. No
dustwrapper. Very good.
$45
(76094) William Cullen Bryant, Henry W.
Longfellow, John G. Whittier, James Russell Lowell & Bayard Taylor (Various, illus.;
Introduction by Oliver Wendell Holmes), Golden Songs of Great Poets,
Sarah H. Leggett, New York NY, 1877.
Octavo; hardcover, full decorated cloth
with bevelled boards, gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations and a
blind-stamped lower board; unpaginated (106pp.), all edges gilt, with a
decorative title page (with tissue guard) and many engraved monochrome
illustrations. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; hinges and spine cracked; spine
extremities softened; hinges scraped and board edges frayed; a sticker ghost to
the flyleaf; pages lightly tanned; some mild spotting mainly to the
preliminaries. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$35
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Classic Poetry:
(75532) Thomas Bracken (Historical Sketch
by Robert Stout, Preface by George Grey), Musings in Maoriland - Illustrated
by New Zealand and English artists, Arthur T. Keirle, Dunedin New Zealand,
1890.
Quarto; hardcover, decorated cloth with
gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations, decorative endpapers and a
green ribbon; 360pp. with decorated title page, with 19 monochrome plates and
many decorations likewise. Moderate wear; lightly shaken and rolled; spine
extremities pulled, boards a little rubbed; text block edges toned and top edge
a little dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; presentation slip tipped in to
the flyleaf; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries; ribbon frayed. No
dustwrapper. Very good.
$80
(70307)
Robert Browning
(Introduction by Kenneth L. Knickerbocker, ed.), The Selected Poetry of
Robert Browning - A Modern Library Book, The University of Tennessee/The
Modern Library/Random House Inc., New York NY, 1951.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles on black labels, gilt spine and upper board decorations and decorative endpapers; 729pp. (+8pp. of adverts), top edges dyed black. Moderate wear; a little shaken; lower hinge cracked (but strong); previous owner's name in ink to the title page. Price -clipped dustwrapper is now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$20
(68659) Robert Burns, The Poetical
Works of Robert Burns - the "Albion" edition with Explanatory
Glossary, Notes, Memoir, etc., Frederick Warne and Co., London, nd.
(1800s).
Octavo; hardcover with gilt spine titles
and upper board decoration; 614pp. Moderate wear; shaken; spine extremities
softened and hinges split; corners bumped; text block edges well toned. mild
offset to the preliminaries. No dustwrapper. Good.
$20
(75531) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (William
Michael Rossetti, ed.), The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge With
His Dramatic Writings, Namely "Remorse: A Tragedy," and the
Translations of "The Piccolomini," and "The Death of
Wallenstein," from the German of Schiller, Ward Lock & Bowden
Ltd., London, nd. (c.1900).
Octavo; hardcover, full black morocco with
rounded corners, with gilt upper board titles, spine titles between five raised
bands and marbled endpapers; 424pp., all edges gilt and corners rounded, with
an engraved frontispiece and three plates likewise. Minor wear; top hinge tender;
boards a little dished; text block top edge lightly dusted; an old sticker to
the inside front cover; some light offset to the preliminaries. No dustwrapper.
Very good. Laid in: a folder order of service from the Diocese of Singapore,
dated 1930.
$45
(73544) Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Collins, London 1974.
Royal octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations; 224pp., with a colour frontispiece, and 11 plates likewise. Moderate wear. Dustwrapper is well rubbed and edgeworn with many tears (now repaired using archival materials); now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$20
(68470) William Hogarth (Charles Mitchell,
ed.), Hogarth's Peregrination, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London,
1952.
Royal octavo; hardcover, full cloth with
gilt spine titles; 54pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and 12 plates and
other illustrations likewise. Mild wear; a little shaken; text block edges
toned; offset to the endpapers; previous owner's contemporary ink inscription
to the flyleaf; original purchase receipt taped to the recto of the rear free
endpaper with associated offset. Dustwrapper is rubbed and a little sunned; now
backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by
non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
The journal of the "Five Days'
Peregrination", which Hogarth and a party of his friends composed on their
return from a trip to the coast of Kent in 1732, was a rollicking impromptu,
never meant for publication. No other contemporary record gives so lively a
picture of the artist and the company he kept. This new edition for the first
time faithfully prints the text of the manuscript, now in the British Museum,
and it reproduces the drawings of Hogarth, Samuel Scott, and John Thornhill,
Hogarth's brother-in-law, from newly made photographs; the book also includes a
reprint of William Gostling's account of the tour in Hudibrastic verse. The
Introductory essay is an attempt to set the manuscript in its original context:
the editor draws biographical sketches of the travellers and defines their
journal as a burlesque on antiquaries, to which Hogarth made satirical additions
which throw fresh light on his state of mind at the time he launched the "Harlot's
Progress".
$100
(72590) Leigh Hunt (Introduction by Rhodes
Dunlap), Captain Sword and Captain Pen - An Anti-War Poem First Published in
1835 Here Reproduced in Facsimile to Mark the Bicentennial of the Author's
Birth, Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City IA, 1984.
Octavo; hardcover, quarter bound in full
cloth with gilt spine titles and black endpapers; 156pp. with many monochrome illustrations.
Minor wear, text block top edge dusted. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn
with some marks; not professionally protected with non-adhesive polypropylene
wrap. Very good.
$20
(72967) Rudyard Kipling, Twenty Poems
from Rudyard Kipling, Methuen & Co Ltd., London, 1918.
Duodecimo; paperback with printed yapp covers; 38pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn; some small ink stains to the covers; text block edges toned with some spotting. Very good.
$55
(72862) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(introduction by Charles Eliot Norton), The Poetical Works of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd., Melbourne and London, nd.
(c. 1910).
Octavo; hardcover, full morocco with gilt spine titles and a gilt upper board decoration and marbled endpapers; 728pp., all edges gilt, corners rounded, with a monochrome portrait frontispiece. Moderate wear; spine extremities softened; some old tape stains and offset to the preliminaries; pages 99 and 100 creased; previous owner's name in ink to the half-title page; pencilled marginalia throughout. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$45
(68650) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The
Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow, Yardley & Hanscomb Ltd., London,
nd. (c.1890).
Octavo; hardcover, full morocco with gilt
spine and upper board titles and rules and decorative endpapers; 664pp.,
corners rounded and all edges gilt, with an engraved monochrome portrait
frontispiece (with tissue guard). Mild wear; boards slightly fanned; hinges
mildly scraped; spine head pulled; school prize bookplate and retailer's
bookplate to the front pastedown; mild offset to the preliminaries. Very good.
$35
(75529)
Alexander Pope, The
Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - With Life, and Engravings on Steel, Gall
& Inglis, Edinburgh Scotland UK, nd. (c.1887).
Octavo; hardcover with bevelled boards,
full decorated cloth, lower board decorated in blind, with gilt spine and upper
board titles and decorations, with lacquered floral decoration inset to the
upper board, and black endpapers. 496pp.; all edges gilt and each page with a
decorative border, with a monochrome frontispiece and three plates likewise.
Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; top hinge cracked; corners bumped; spine
extremities softened and head pulled; spine a little sunned; text block top
edge dusted; light offset to the preliminaries; retailer's bookplate to the
flyleaf; previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to the verso of the
frontis. No dustwrapper. Good to very good.
$75
(73227) Sir Walter Scott (Introduction by
J. Logie Robertson, ed.), The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott,
Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press, London, 1947.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and blind-stamped rules and decorations to the boards; 981pp., top edges dyed green. Mild wear; text block edges lightly toned; top hinge cracked (but strong). Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; some mild chipping to the edges; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$50
(75530) Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Works
of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London,
1909.
Octavo; hardcover, full roan with round
cornered padded boards, gilt rules and spine and upper board titles and
decorations, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles and a red ribbon; 902pp.,
all edges gilt with rounded corners, with an engraved portrait frontispiece.
Moderate wear; spine cracked; hinges scraped; spine extremities lightly pulled;
ribbon removed; light offset to the endpapers and frontis.; light scattered
foxing throughout; previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to the front
pastedown. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$45
(74711) Oscar Wilde (Hans Alexander
Mueller, illus.), The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Poems, The
Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon NY, nd. (c.1940s).
Octavo; hardcover, with decorative boards;
94pp., with many monochrome decorations. Mild wear; spine sunned. No
dustwrapper as issued. Very good in a slightly split and rubbed slipcase.
$50
(69866) W.B. Yeats (Introduction by A. Norman Jeffares, ed.), W.B. Yeats - The Love Poems, Kyle Cathie Ltd., London, 1990.
Octavo; paperback; 147pp. Moderate wear; spotting to the text block edges and preliminaries; previous owner's name in ink (elided) to the first page. Very good.
$11
(71577) W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems
of W.B. Yeats, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1939.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and blind-stamped spine decorations; 475pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece. Ex-library: moderate wear; boards a little rubbed and sunned; slightly rolled; text block edges toned with some spotting; the usual cancelled library stamps and markings; offset to the endpapers; flyleaf is clipped; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Lacks dustwrapper. Good to very good.
$25
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Modern Poetry:
(73808) W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter
Poems 1930-1944, Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1956.
Third Impression: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 303pp. Ex-library: moderate wear; rolled; spine a little sunned; text block edges lightly toned and top edge dusted; library stamps; flyleaf removed. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.
$20
(69079) Katharine Coles, Flight – Poems,
Red Hen Press, Pasadena CA, 2016.
Octavo; paperback; 88pp. Minor wear. Near fine.
$20
(73811) T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems: 1909-1935, Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1951.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; 191pp., top edges dyed black. Ex-library: moderate wear; boards rubbed and edgeworn with some stains; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned; the usual cancelled library stamps and markings; offset the endpapers. Lacks dustwrapper. Good to very good.
$20
(68482) Allen Ginsberg (Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, eds.), The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice - First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952, Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group, Cambridge MA, 2006.
Octavo; paperback, with black endpapers; 523pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Minor wear; front cover a little scuffed. Very good.
$22
(71405) Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at
Olema - New and Selected Poems, ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, New York NY,
2010.
Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards; 352pp. Minor wear; remainder mark to the text lock bottom edge. Dustwrapper is a little edgeworn. Very good.
$25
(75932)
Seamus Heaney, Opened
Ground - Poems 1966-1996, Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1998.
Octavo; paperback; 479pp. Minor wear. Very
good.
$20
(69071)
Lawrence Joseph, So
Where Are We? Poems, Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York NY, 2017.
Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 68pp., with a monochrome frontispiece. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.
Note: we also (coincidentally) have a paperback version of this work for $20.
$25
(68514) Jack Kerouac (Introductions by Anne Waldmann & Eric Mottram), The Scripture of the Golden Eternity - City Lights Pocket Poets Series No.51., City Lights Books. San Francisco CA, 1994.
Duodecimo; paperback, with black endpapers; 66pp. Mild wear; a small cigarette burn to the front cover. Very good.
$10
(72773) Ogden Nash, Collected Verse -
From 1929 On, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1966.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; 508pp., top edges dyed green. Minor wear; slightly shaken; some light moisture damage to the text block top edge; some light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$35
(73754)
Ogden Nash (Maurice
Sendak, illus.), You Can't Get There From Here, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1957.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with bronze spine titles; 179pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned; sticker ghosts and a retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's name to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; a coffee stain to the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$20
(72521) Wilfred Owen (Introduction by Jon Stallworthy, ed.), The War Poems, Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, 2017.
Octavo; paperback; 104pp., with a monochrome frontispiece. Minor wear. Near fine.
$15
(68721) Patti Smith, Collected Lyrics -1970-2015,
ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, New York NY, 2015.
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound
in papered boards with blind-stamped spine titles and a blue ribbon; 308pp.,
untrimmed, with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise.
Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive
polypropylene wrap. Near fine.
$25
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Antipodean Poetry:
(71579) Irene Coates, Nancy J. Corbett
& Barbara Petrie (eds.), Up from Below - Poems of the 1980s, Women's
Redress Press Inc., Broadway NSW, 1987.
Octavo; paperback; 384pp. Mild wear; spine
a little sunned; light toning to the text block edges. Very good.
$25
(73226) Introduction by Vincent Buckley,
ed., The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse, Faber and Faber Ltd., London,
1991.
Octavo; hardcover; 275pp. Moderate wear; text block and page edges well toned; some mild moisture damage to the lower end of the text block. Dustwrapper a little sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good.
$20
(71578) Barbara Petrie (ed.), Kiwi
& Emu - An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Australia and New Zealand
Women, Butterfly Books, Springwood NSW, 1989.
Octavo; paperback; 289pp., with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near
fine.
$25
(70411) Bertram Stevens (ed.), An Anthology of Australian Verse, Angus & Robertson, Sydney NSW, 1906.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth, with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations; 300pp., top edges gilt. Mild wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn; spine lightly sunned; text block edges lightly toned; offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in pencil to the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$12
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(68475) C.J. Dennis (Foreword by Henry
Lawson; Hal Gye, illus.), The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, Angus &
Robertson Publishers, London, 1981.
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, gilt spine titles with upper board decorations and titles and decorative endpapers; 130pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.
$20
(76520) G.J. Harding (Maureen Loughran
& Leo Buckley, illus.; Preface by M.E. Kelliher), The Murdered Swagman's
Ghost And Other Verses – signed, The author, Melbourne Vic., 1990.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and
upper board titles; 64pp., with a colour frontispiece, and many colour and
monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; signed in ink to the half-title page by
the author; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is a
little rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine panel. Very good.
From a limited edition print run of only
3,000 copies.
$25
(75692)
Henry Kendall (T. Inglis
Moore, ed.), Selected Poems of Henry Kendall with Biographical and Critical
Introduction, Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney NSW, 1957.
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine
titling; 212pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece and two plates
likewise. Moderate wear; spine extremities softened; boards a little dusty;
text block edges toned and top edge dusted; retailer's bookplate and previous
owner's name in ink to the front pastedown. Lacks dustwrapper. Good.
$20
(71306)
Helen Lambert, Namaste
Diary Poems and Photographs, Book 1 – signed, The Svengali Press, Bondi
Beach NSW, 2019.
Octavo; paperback; 162pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed; signed in ink with an inscription to the first page. Very good.
$20
(70235) Owen Marshall (Grahame Sydney,
illus.), View from the South, Vintage/Penguin Random House New Zealand,
Auckland NZ, 2018.
Octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles and decorative endpapers and a cream ribbon; 208pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Minor wear; light scraping to the spine extremities. Obi-style dustwrapper. Near fine.
$25
(72547) Les A. Murray, The People's
Otherworld, Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney NSW, 1983.Octavo; paperback, with decorative endpapers; 68pp. Mild wear covers a little rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's name in ink to the half-title page. Very good.
$30
(73209) Les Murray, Taller When Prone - Poems, Black Inc./Schwartz Media Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic., 2010.Octavo; paperback; 89pp. Minor wear; text block edges toned. Very good.
$15
(77055) Barbara Petrie, Farrow Night, Island Press Co-operative Ltd., Woodford NSW, 1996.
Octavo; paperback; 79pp. Minor wear. New.
Local author.
$15
(73800)
Reginald Reid, Come
Walk With Me - Poems for the Heart and Mind (signed), R.P. Reid, Kanimbla NSW, 2012.
Octavo; paperback; 142pp. Minor wear; signed in ink with an inscription to the first page. Very good.
Local author.
$20
(68458) Gig Ryan, The Last Interior,
Scripsi, Yorkville Vic., 1986.
Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; 36pp.
Mild wear; covers lightly creased; text block edges toned. Dustwrapper mildly
edgeworn. Very good to near fine.
$20
(76365)
Peta Spear, My Sweet
Sex - New Poets Program: Series 2, 1994, NSW Ministry of the
Arts/scarp/Five Islands Press Associates, Wollongong NSW, 1994.
Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; 32pp.
Mild wear. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn with some mild creasing. Very good.
$20
(70315) "Kath Walker" (Oodgeroo Noonuccal), My People - A Kath Walker Book, The Jacaranda Press Pty. Ltd., Crow's Nest NSW, 1970.
Octavo; paperback, with decorative endpapers; 96pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; some insect damage to the text block fore-edge, mildly affecting the back cover; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn; text block edges toned with some spotting. Very good.
$10
(71622) Judith Wright, Fourth Quarter
and Other Poems, Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney NSW, 1976.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full
cloth with gilt spine titles and decorative endpapers; 71pp. Mild wear;
slightly rolled; text block top edge lightly dusted; previous owner's name in
ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; a few small tears along
the edges with associated creasing; now professionally protected by
non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$20
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Literary Biographies:
(72445) Lyndall Gordon, Lives Like Loaded Guns - Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, Virago Press/Little Brown Book Group, London, 2010.
Octavo; trade paperback; 491pp., with a map and 16pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear; text block edges toned. Very good.
$17
(71459) Barbara Young, This Man from Lebanon - A Study of Kahlil Gibran, Borzoi Books/Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York NY, 1967.
Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration and blind-stamped upper board titles; 190pp., untrimmed on laid paper, top edges dyed yellow, with a monochrome portrait frontispiece and ten plates likewise. Mild wear; flyleaf removed; text block edges toned. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with some spotting; some crude tape repairs to the spine panel extremities. Very good.
$18
(75386) James Knight, Henry & Banjo - The tumultuous lives and times of Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, the men who wrote Australia's story, Hachette Australia/Hachette (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 2015.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with blind-stamped spine and upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 415pp., with 8pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear; spine extremities a little scraped. Dustwrapper. Very good.
$20
(72844) Kay Redfield Jamison, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire: a Study of Genius, Mania, and Character, Borzoi Books/Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House LLC., New York NY, 2017.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with silver-gilt spine titles; 535pp., untrimmed, with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; remainder mark to the text block bottom edge. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
$20
(69966) Helen Hewson, John Shaw Neilson - A Life in Letters, The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press, Carlton South Vic., 2001.
First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 503pp.. with 16pp. of monochrome plates and other illustrations likewise. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine.
$60
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Children's Collections:
(71574) Louey Chisholm (ed.) (M.D. Spooner, C.E. & H.M. Brock, illus.), The Golden Staircase - Poems and Verses for Young Readers from 10 to 16 Years Old, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., London, nd. (c.1933).
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations; 227pp., with a colour frontispiece and many monochrome illustrations. Ex-library: moderate wear; mild insect damage to the boards; spine extremities pulled; text block edges lightly toned and top edge dusted; the usual cancelled library stamps and other markings; previous owner's name in ink (elided) and retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; flyleaf removed. Lacks dustwrapper. Good.
$12
(69568)
Rose Fyleman, The Fairy
Green, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1920.
Third edition: octavo; hardcover,
full-cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations; 64pp.,
untrimmed. Mild wear; rolled; spine sunned; text block edges toned and top edge
dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the rear
pastedown. No dustwrapper. Very good.
$20
(73625)
Kathleen Lines (ed.) (Harold Jones, illus.), Lavender's Blue - A Book of
Nursery Rhymes, Oxford University Press, London, 1960.
Quarto; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with illustrated boards and decorative endpapers; 180pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; rolled; corners bumped; spine extremities softened; a few chips to the board fore-edges; text block edges toned; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Good.
$15
(74018)
Yvonne Perrin (illus.), Australian Poems to Read to the Very Young, National
Book Distributors Pty. Ltd., french's Forest NSW, 1995.
Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 27pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine.
$12
(74019)
Jan Wade (illus.), Nursery Rhymes for Young Australians, National Book
Distributors Pty. Ltd., French's Forest NSW, 1995.
Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 31pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine.
$12
(74046)
Brian Patten (ed.) (Various, illus.), The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant
Poetry, Puffin Books/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Ringwood Vic., 1999.
Reprint: royal octavo; gatefold paperback; 144pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. Very good.
$12
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Ephemera:
(74006) Henry Longfellow (M. Matthews,
illus.), Hiawatha - Whitcombe's Story Books No. 338, Whitcombe and Tombs
Ltd., Auckland New Zealand, nd. (c.1956).
Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet with
printed wrappers; 64pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and other illustrations
likewise. Moderate wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn; text block edges toned;
light scattered foxing throughout; some dog-eared pages; previous owner's
pencilled inscription to the back cover. Very good.
$15
(75667) Dylan Thomas (Ellen Raskin,
illus.), A Child's Christmas in Wales, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.,
London, 1979.
Landscape duodecimo; paperback, with
printed wrappers; 32pp., with monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers a
little rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's ink inscription to the inside
front cover; sticker ghost to the back cover. Very good.
$25
*****
NB: All prices are in
Australian Dollars (AUD) and DO NOT include postage, which will need to be
calculated according to individual circumstances at the time of sale.
Morocco
Books and Collectibles is located within the Country of the Dharug and Gundungurra
peoples.
