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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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Servian Popular Poetry
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Bowring
London: Thomas Davison for the Author, 1827.Serbian poetry translated by John Borwing.
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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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Fables by the Late Mr. Gay. In Two Volumes
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Gay
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. and R. Tonson, [et al.], 1757.Two volumes in one (as usual). Frontispiece and title page engraved by G. Scotin after Hubert Gravelot, and 66 half-page engravings by Van der Gucht after William Kent, John Wootten, and Gravelot, as well as numerous woodcut tailpieces.
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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 world’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 Sanka Shu: The Mountain Hermitage
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSaigyo; H. H. Honda
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1971.A collection of court poetry from the late Heian and early Kamakura periods by Saigyo, translated by H. H. Honda.
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The Kokin Waka-Shu: The 10th Century Anthology
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartH. H. Honda
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press and Eirinsha Press, 1970.A collection of Japanese poems originally complied at Imperial request. An anthology of the waka form of poetry dating from the Heian period. Edited by The Imperial Edict and translated by H. H. Honda.
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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. -
A Quair of Sonnets and Ballads
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pride
Liverpool: John Pride, 1928.Written and etched by artist and engraver John Foster Disney Pride (1877-1941). One half of ‘Pride and Dowling’ Engravers and Brass Plate Makers, John withdrew from the partnership to study at The Liverpool School of Art. He exhibited oil and watercolours, and was commissioned to sketch old buildings in Liverpool, prior to their demolition. This copy includes a 1932 Evening Express article laid in, which states that John Pride approached the Lord Mayor requesting the Duke of York should accept his book. His Lordship was delighted with the gift. A nice association copy inscribed to the artist’s cousin, and signed “The sixty-second copy hand pulled. John Pride.”
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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.
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In the Tradition (for Black Arthur Blythe)
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmiri Baraka
: Amiri Baraka, 1980.