The Place of Love

Melbourne: A Comment Publication, 1942.
First Edition.

23cm x 15cm. 78 pages. Lettered wrappers.

Love poems by the American poet published while stationed in Australia during WWII. “[B]anned by several Australian bookshops because of its explicit love poetry.” (Patricia Clarke, Literary Sidelights in Wartime Brisbane) CAINS 157. This copy from the collection of Australian artists Geoffrey and Dahl Collings, with their stamp, and with the bookseller’s label of Australian painter Carl Plate’s Notanda Gallery, Plate seemingly not ashamed in the slightest.

Some soiling to wrappers. Remnants of a belly band to wrappers verso. Good Condition.

AU$100.00

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