The Love Poems

Melbourne: Eaglemont Books, 1993.
First Edition. Signed by Author

21cm x 14.5cm. [vi], 62, [1] pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.

Collection of Lea’s love poems, published by his own Eaglemont Press in June 1993, limited to 1000 unnumbered copies, with drawings throughout by Jenni Mitchell, whose portrait of Lea from her Australian poets’ portraits series appears on the cover. Poems selected by Patrick McCauley; some had previously appeared in Overland and in Lea’s earlier collection Poems From A Peach Melba Hat. This copy signed by both Lea and Mitchell, with a flyer for Lea’s Eaglemont Books, at 81 Silverdale Road, ‘Specialising in Australian poetry. Call Shelton’, laid in.

Pin holes to corners. Minor soiling. Near Fine Condition.

AU$400