Australian Poetry

BAYLDON, Arthur Albert D.
Poems... An Edition of these Poems will be Published in London in a few months.
Brisbane, W.H. Wendt & Co., 1897.

Octavo; some spotting but a very good copy in the original purple cloth, spine faded.

Very scarce: the first edition of Bayldon's first Australian volume of verse. Born in Yorkshire, Bayldon emigrated to...

Hornibrook, p. 4; Miller, p. 277; Serle, p. 17.

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[BAYLEBRIDGE, WILLIAM] BLOCKSIDGE, William.
Seven Tales.
London, Privately Printed, 1916.

Octavo, original wrappers, uncut, partly unopened; a very good copy.

A very good copy of the only edition, with pencil revisions to several poems, probably by Baylebridge...

Farmer, p. 32; Hornibrook, p. 7; Miller, p. 296; Serle, p. 22.

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BOURKE, John Philip.
Off the Blue Bush.
Sydney, Tyrells, 1915.

Octavo, portrait frontispiece and black & white illustrations throughout; slight scattered foxing, a fine copy in...

First edition of this collection by "Blue Bush" which had originally appeared in the Kalgoorlie...

Miller, p. 311.

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CASSIDY, R.J. ("Gilrooney").
The Land of the Starry Cross and Other Verses.
Melbourne, Lothian, 1911.

Small octavo; a fine copy in the original blue cloth, top edge gilt.

Author's presentation copy of his first book of verse, with a long presentation inscription to Jack Vincent, dated 28...

Miller, p. 303.

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DOWNES, Marion Grace.
Wayside Songs.
London, Simpkin Marshall, 1927.

Octavo, portrait frontispiece; a fine copy in gilt decorated cream cloth.

First edition of this posthumously published collection of verse; a sequel to her Wayside Songs for Women,...

Miller, p. 328.

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[FANFROLICO PRESS] ANTHOLOGY.
Fleas in Amber: Verses and One Fable in Prose on the Philosphy of Vermin. A Miscellany.
London, Fanfrolico Press, 1930.

Octavo; a fine copy in the original patterned paper boards, cloth spine.

An anthology on the subject of vermin, including classics by John Donne, S.T. Coleridge, Robert Burns and Peter...

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FAVENC, Ernest.
Voices of the Desert.
London, Elliott Stock, 1905.

Octavo, pp. xvi, 78 (last blank), [2] (integral blank) + frontispiece and one other plate after Percy F. Spence; some...

First edition of the only volume of verse by the explorer, adventurer and Bulletin writer. Although his output...

Hornibrook, p. 24; Miller, p. 292; Serle, p. 65.

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GAY, William.
Christ on Olympus and Other Poems.
Bendigo, William Gay, 1896.

Small quarto, frontispiece; uncut in lightly soiled and worn original stiffened wrappers.

First edition: issued in the same year as Gay's Bendigo Sonnets and published by the poet himself. This was his...

Miller, p. 271; Serle, p. 73.

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HARRIS, Max.
The Gift of Blood Poetry by Max Harris.
Adelaide, Jindyworobak, 1940.

Octavo; a very good copy in the original red wrappers with white lettering.

Harris's first book. This collection is firmly indicative of the talent laying beneath so much of the controversy that...

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LATROBE, John Antes (attributed).
The Solace of Song. Short Poems...
London, Seeley and Burnside, 1837.

Octavo, with 12 India paper proof engravings; contemporary half calf, a good copy.

First edition of quite a charming period-piece, for a long time attributed to Charles La Trobe, a Governor of Victoria...

Miller, p. 228.

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