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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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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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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,000.00 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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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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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
New York: Burt Franklin, 1963. -
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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Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Corso
San Francisco: City Lights Books, [2007].The Pocket Poets Series: Number 8. A circa 2007 later printing. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Planet News 1961-1967
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAllen Ginsberg
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2000.The Pocket Poet Series: Number Twenty Three. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 2, 1930-1962
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Gilmore
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2007.Edited by Jennifer Strauss. From the Academy Editions of Australian Literature Series, foreword by general editor Paul Eggert.
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The Archaeology of Eros
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJorge Socarras; Mel Odom
San Francisco: Dark Entries Editions, 2023.“Homoerotic poetry and art appear throughout the worldÂ’s civilizations for millennia. The Archaeology of Eros, the first collection of poems from cult music figure Jorge Socarras, taps into that continuum through the collaboration of acclaimed artist Mel Odom. Socarras’ intimate love poems and Odom’s evocative drawings are beautifully juxtaposed in this elegantly designed book. Straddling the sensual and the archetypal, the contemporary and the classical, poetry and art join forces in exploring the mystery and wonder of Eros, affirming that same-sex desire has lived before even as it flourishes now. Born to Cuban parents in New York City, Jorge Socarras (born 1952) is known for his 1970s collaboration with pioneering synthesizer musician Patrick Cowley as the duo Catholic, as singer-frontman of the 1980s avant-rock group Indoor Life and as half of the ongoing musical duo Fanatico X. He was also cofounder of the Silence=Death Collective, the AIDS activist group that in 1987 created the eponymous poster design and slogan. The award-winning art of Mel Odom (born 1950) has graced numerous book covers and magazines since the 1970s, has been the subject of two books, and has been exhibited in galleries and art institutions, including in collaboration with gay literary icon Edmund White.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Mind Field
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Corso
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1989.Hanuman Books 27, first edition of beat poet Gregory Corso. Cover photo by Allen Ginsberg. This copy signed by Corso on the front flyleaf.
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Allen Curnow Simply by Sailing in a New Direction: A Biography; Allen Curnow: Collected Poems (2 Volumes)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry Sturm; Linda Cassells; Elizabeth Caffin
Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2017. -
Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBurton Watson
New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.Translations from the Oriental Classics series.
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The Lady and the Cavalier, The Mistletoe Bough and Other Poems
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Willis Grey
London, Paris, and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date.English love poetry circa 1890. Illustrated by J. Willis Grey.
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The Sonnets of Petrarch
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph Auslander
London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931.Translated by Joseph Auslander.
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The Merry Muses and Other Burnsian Frolics
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Burns
London: Luxor Press, 1966.An entirely new compendium of Scottish Songs and Fragments from the Secret Collections of Robert Burns. Edited, witha foreword and explanatory notes by Eric Lemuel Randall.
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TV Tricks and other poems
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIan MacNeill
Sydney: BlackWattle Press, 1989. -
The Ninth Satire: Poetry, Fiction & Biography
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStephen J. Williams
Melbourne: Pariah Press, 1993.Cover illustration by Charles Blackman.
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Anacreonti Quae Tribuuntur Carminum Paraphrasis Elegiaca
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. H. Hoeufft
Dordraci: Peter van Braam, 1795.Poems by Anaccreon (ca. 575-495 BC), a Greek lyric poet who wrote in the Ionic dialect here translated into Latin by J.H. Hoeufft. His works were meant to be sung or recited to lyre music, and included hymns as well as less virtuous drinking and love songs.