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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
Read MoreOliver 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
Read MorePierre 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Rheims: Presses de L’Imprimerie Particuliere du Palais du Tau, 1976.Previously unpublished erotic French poetry by Pierre Louys from the collection of M. Gerard Nordmann with a quality reproduction of an erotic photograph by Louys as a frontispiece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
New York: Burt Franklin, 1963. -
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.
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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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Scattered Poems (Pocket Poet Series #28)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Kerouac
San Francisco: City Lights Books, [2001].Pocket Poet Series No. 28. 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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Seen In Three Days
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdwin J. Ellis
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893.Written, drawn, and tinted by Edwin J. Ellis. Sixty plates (including the title), each with a large design and text printed in sepia in the manner of William Blake, Ellis being an ardent devotee of Blake’s having edited The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical together with W. B. Yeats, also published by Quaritch in the same year. Despite the clear indications to the dreams of Blake, the work stands as its own: the apocalypse is absent, the women are prettier, and while not of Blake’s mastery, the technical differences are more than appetizing.
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Ha! Ha! Houdini!
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPatti Smith
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977.Smith’s poetic tribute to illusionist Harry Houdini, dedicated to Jacques Stern. An unsigned, unnumbered copy of the first edition.
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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 worlds 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.