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The Language of Oysters
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Adamson; Juno Gemes
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1997.Photo and poetry book on the lives of the oyster farmers on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. This copy inscribed by the photographer, Juno Gemes.
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Narcolepsy
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam; Bob Charles
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“Narcolepsy radically delivers a process that shakes-up the form of the book to produce the art as book and the book as art. The book is a fully realised graphic vehicle. The ways in which the book operates as a series of closures and openings, also parallels the content of the book and amplifies it as an evocative, mysterious object. Narcolepsy is loaded with the poetics of sex and death realised through an exciting fusion of drawing, painting, text and photography. Narcolepsy is a disturbingly ambiguous novella in pictures and words by Max Pam (photographer) and Bob Charles (writer).” (publisher’s blurb)
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Fata Morgana; or, The Bristol Sculptor’s Idol, A Poem.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. Jephson
Hobart: T. L. Hood, 1881.Early Tasmanian poetry. The story, in narrative verse, of a genius contending with poverty. Henry Jephson (1810-1896) emigrated from England to Hobart in 1857 becoming associated with the Methodist Free Church and joining the Tasmania Operative Lodge of Masons for which Jephson composed Masonic Songs. The preface of this work is written by Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris, who became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania in 1890.
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The Dark Side
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCherie Imlah
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La Ballade de la Geole de Reading
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde; G. Cornelius
Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927.French edition of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated with 15 coloured copper engravings by Jean-Georges Cornelius. One of 225 numbered copies.
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Les Amies. Sonnets
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Verlaine; Jean-Gabriel Daragnes
Bayonne: aux depens d’un groupe d’amateurs a l’enseigne de la Guirlande, 1919.Verlaine’s lesbian themed sonnets accompanied by 6 full page illustrations and tail pieces by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes. Produced in an edition of 280 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 standard with the plates in colour on arches vellum paper.
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The Feet of the Young Men
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRudyard Kipling; Lewis R. Freeman
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920.Kipling’s poem with photographic illustrations and an introduction by Lewis R. Freeman. Produced in a limited edition of 377 numbered copies signed by Kipling.
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Alle de Copyen van Indagingen, als mede alle de Gedichten Op de Tegenwoordige Tyd toepasselyk
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[UTRECHT SODOMY TRIALS]
No place: No publisher, [1730].A relic of the Utrecht sodomy trials, the large scale persecution of homosexual men in the Netherlands starting in 1730. Without author or publisher, literally the title translated to [All the copies of summonses, as well as all the poems applicable to the present time], listing of men accused of sodomy, with charges and sentences, many of death, accompanied by long moralistic poems on the depravity of the crime. 2 parts in one, the second part, Vervolg op alle de Copyen, being a continuation. This copy with the second part ending at page 94 with the final charge in October of 1730 and ending with the poem by P. Schim. Copies of various sizes are noted of part 2, perhaps indicating different issues, from page 94 to 151 the list continues to 1731, perhaps being issued later.
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The Bells and other Poems
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdgar Allan Poe; Edmund Dulac
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.The deluxe edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe featuring The Bells, The Raven, and others. Illustrated with 28 tipped in colour plates and additional vignettes by Edmund Dulac and published in a numbered edition of 750 copies signed by Dulac.
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Le Condamne a Mort
AU$11,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Genet
Fresnes: , 1942.First edition, first printing, of Genet’s first publication. Written while in prison for book theft and privately printed in 1942, Le Condamne a Mort [The Man Sentenced to Death], is a hallucinatory homoerotic homage to another prisoner, Maurice Pilorge, a beautiful young man guillotined for murder in 1939. Appearing in white and pink wrapper variants without priority, this copy in white, and containing numerous manuscript corrections by the author.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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[ILLUMINATED] Poems by Carolyn Tebbetts
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarolyn Tebbetts; Elizabeth Mott Chesbrough?
: Elizabeth Mott Chesbrough?, 1910.Poems by Carolyn Tebbets and one by John Banister Tabb, in manuscript with ornate watercolour borders. An inscription on a front flyleaf notes: “Virginia Tebbetts June 19, 1910. With love of Elizabeth Mott Chesbrough” designating the likely artist as Elizabeth, though this is uncertain. An additional watercolour with a poem in french is laid in. Housed in decorative handmade cloth wrappers with an original drawing of a pelican standing under a tree by the waterside.
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Das Jahr der Seele
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStefan George; Ernest Briggs
Brisbane: Ernest Briggs, No date.Autograph transcription of German symbolist poet Stefan George’s 1897 work Das Jahr der Seele [The Year of the Soul] by Australian poet, broadcaster, and critic Ernest Briggs (1905-1967). The complete work has been copied in the original German, though the poem starting ‘Keins wie dein feines ohr’ has only been titled with a blank space left for the poem, and the final 9 poems from ‘Ob schwerer nebel in den waldern hangt’ to end have not been included, presumably only because Briggs ran out of room in the book. Penned during Briggs time at 4BK Brisbane sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s.
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The Garden of Adonis
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOliver Hill
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923.The Arcadian, Uranian photography of architect Oliver Hill presented alongside quotes from the Romantic poets. The first of several lavish productions by Philip Allan of Hill’s Pictorialist images of children. This copy inscribed by Oliver Hill for Sidney Smith and dated September 1927, undoubtedly Witney blanket man Sidney Smith, Hill having designed Merryfield House for him and gifted upon the completion of construction.
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Petites Miettes Amoureuses
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPierre Louys
Rheims: Presses de L’Imprimerie Particuliere du Palais du Tau, 1976.Previously unpublished erotic French poetry by Pierre Louys from the collection of M. Gerard Nordmann with a quality reproduction of an erotic photograph by Louys as a frontispiece to the first volume, Poems Libres. The second volume, Deux Contes, all manuscript facsimile. Limited to 175 numbered copies, this copy without the accompanying box of postcards.
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Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; Irene Gammel; Suzanne Zelazo
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. The first major published poetry collection of German-born artist and poet, active in New York from 1913 to 1923.
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Tristan and Isolt: A Study of the Sources of the Romance (2 Volumes)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGertrude Schoepperle Loomis
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The Doom of Man
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Rose
Sydney: Harold Murray, 1916.Blank verse poem by New South Wales politician and lawyer Thomas Rose (1847-1926).
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Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[George] Essex Evans; Alek Sass [Alexander Phillip Sass]
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1909.Queensland poetry by George Essex Evans illustrated by Alexander Phillip Sass in a mythological medieval style with numerous nude female figures. Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode has previously been misattributed as a posthumous publication, Evans having died in November of 1909, however this has been proven incorrect, and is actually the final published work.
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Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[George] Essex Evans; Alek Sass [Alexander Phillip Sass]
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., 1909.Queensland poetry by George Essex Evans illustrated by Alexander Phillip Sass in a mythological medieval style with numerous nude female figures. Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode has previously been misattributed as a posthumous publication, Evans having died in November of 1909, however this has been proven incorrect, and is actually the final published work. This copy in the superior leather binding with a photographic portrait of Evans which is not present in the standard edition.