Poetry
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Fata Morgana; or, The Bristol Sculptor’s Idol, A Poem.
$500.00 Add to cartH. Jephson
Hobart: T. L. Hood, 1881.
Early Tasmanian poetry. The story, in narrative verse, of a genius contending with poverty. Henry Jephson (1810-1896) emigrated from England to Hobart in 1857 becoming associated with the Methodist Free Church and joining the Tasmania Operative Lodge of Masons for which Jephson composed Masonic Songs. The preface of this work is written by Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris, who became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania in 1890. -
Amorphik: An Erotic Constellation
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First Edition. Inscribed by Editor
21cm x 14.5cm. xviii, 129 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Edited by Simon Sellars with contributions by Sarah Endacott, Kieran Dell, hilaire, Matthew Firth, Tony Reck, Sarala, Garth Madsen, Dee Teflon, Nathsha Cho, Ben Paradox, Kim Hunt, Samantha Bews, Andres Vaccari, Nick Umney, Sasha Cunningham, Dana Shavit, Tana McCarthy, Bronwyn Scanlon, Scott Flaherty, Erika Niesner, Micahel Howard, Symon Brando, Rob Cover, Der Teufel, and Kristoph Eggleston. Illustrations by Tim Umney, Peter Christmas Savieri, Vasilios Billy Mavreas, Diana Harris, and Dee Rimbaud. This copy inscribed by the editor.
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The Dark Side
$20.00 Add to cartCherie Imlah
Goolmangar: Jiggi Publishing, 1990. -
Black Man Coming
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First Edition.
23cm x 16cm. viii, 32 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Poetry by Bundjalung activist and poet Gerry Bostock (1942-2014). Illustrated by Ngarrindjeri artist Trevor Nickolls (1949-2012).
Minor foxing and creasing to wrappers. Staples rusted. Very Good Condition. -
Jagera
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First Edition.
24.5cm x 17cm. [vi], 98, [1] pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Sixth volume of poetry by Indigenous Australian poet Lionel Fogarty.
Moderate shelf wear. Good Condition. -
La Ballade de la Geole de Reading
$1,000.00 Add to cartOscar Wilde; G. Cornelius
Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927.
French edition of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated with 15 coloured copper engravings by Jean-Georges Cornelius. One of 225 numbered copies. -
Les Amies. Sonnets
$500.00 Add to cartPaul Verlaine; Jean-Gabriel Daragnes
Bayonne: aux depens d’un groupe d’amateurs a l’enseigne de la Guirlande, 1919.
Verlaine’s lesbian themed sonnets accompanied by 6 full page illustrations and tail pieces by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes. Produced in an edition of 280 numbered copies of which this is one of 250 standard with the plates in colour on arches vellum paper. -
The Feet of the Young Men
$500.00 Add to cartRudyard Kipling; Lewis R. Freeman
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920.
Kipling’s poem with photographic illustrations and an introduction by Lewis R. Freeman. Produced in a limited edition of 377 numbered copies signed by Kipling. -
Alle de Copyen van Indagingen, als mede alle de Gedichten Op de Tegenwoordige Tyd toepasselyk
$2,000.00 Add to cart[UTRECHT SODOMY TRIALS]
No place: No publisher, [1730].
A relic of the Utrecht sodomy trials, the large scale persecution of homosexual men in the Netherlands starting in 1730. Without author or publisher, literally the title translated to [All the copies of summonses, as well as all the poems applicable to the present time], listing of men accused of sodomy, with charges and sentences, many of death, accompanied by long moralistic poems on the depravity of the crime. 2 parts in one, the second part, Vervolg op alle de Copyen, being a continuation. This copy with the second part ending at page 94 with the final charge in October of 1730 and ending with the poem by P. Schim. Copies of various sizes are noted of part 2, perhaps indicating different issues, from page 94 to 151 the list continues to 1731, perhaps being issued later. -
Drug Poems
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. [x], 70 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
The third poetry collection by Michael Dransfield (1948-1973) and the final published in his short lifetime.
Minor shelf wear. Previous owner’s name. Near Fine Condition. -
The Bells and other Poems
$3,000.00 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe; Edmund Dulac
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.
The deluxe edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe featuring The Bells, The Raven, and others. Illustrated with 28 tipped in colour plates and additional vignettes by Edmund Dulac and published in a numbered edition of 750 copies signed by Dulac. -
Le Condamne a Mort
$11,000.00 Add to cartJean Genet
Fresnes: , 1942.
First edition, first printing, of Genet’s first publication. Written while in prison for book theft and privately printed in 1942, Le Condamne a Mort [The Man Sentenced to Death], is a hallucinatory homoerotic homage to another prisoner, Maurice Pilorge, a beautiful young man guillotined for murder in 1939. Appearing in white and pink wrapper variants without priority, this copy in white, and containing numerous manuscript corrections by the author. -
New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
$6,500.00 Add to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.
One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work. -
Neurotica (Complete Set, 9 Volumes)
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23.5cm x 15cm. 9 volumes. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
A complete set of the proto-beat literary journal dedicated to expressions and explorations of art, sex, and neuroticism. The first 8 issues edited by Jay Irving Landesman, the final 9th “castration” issue by Gershon Legman. Featuring contributions by Kenneth Patchen, David Cornel De Jong, Rudolph Friedmann, Henri Michaux, Richard Rubenstein, Douglas P. Rodewald, Nathaniel Thornton, Marc Brandel, Ellis Foote, Justine Krug, Leonard Bernstein, William Krasnet, Gerald W. Lawlor, Harry Karetsky, John Clellon Holmes, Hubert Crehan, Carol Hall, William Stern, Lila Rosenblum, Alistair Kahn, J. B. Smith, John Goldston, Judith Malina, Lawrence Durrell, Winston Weathers, Joanne de Longchamps, Themistocles G. Hoetis, Herbert Benjamin, Norman Maclaine, Osmond Beckwith, Ralph Gilmer, Mortimer Slaiman, Louis Triefenbach, Joseph Kyeff, Sidney E. Porcelain, Ray H. Zorn, Marshall Mcluhan, Charles L. Newman, Jean B. Welch, H. Phelps Putnam, Allen Walker Read, Theodor Reik, Thelma J. Levy, John Del Torto, Alfred Towne, Anatole Broyard, Peter Viereck, Chandler Brossard, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Towne, Wallace Markfield, Carl Gentile (Goy), William Barrett, Anatole Broyard, Lawrence Rivers, Hy Sobiloff, William Steig, John Del Torto, Victor Tausk, Christopher Maclaine, Jacques Schnier, Maurice M. Shudofsky, Herbert Wolf, Ella Freeman Sharpe, Rudolph Friedmann, Otto Fenichel, James Clark Moloney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, and Mason Jordan Mason. Cover illustrations by Alvin Lustig. All first printings, except for No 1, which is the second printing.
Some issues with minor tanning or discolouration, and minor wear to edges. Nos. 1 and 3 with crease to wrappers lower panel. No 8. with a small indent line to upper panel. No. 4 with a very small chip to spine at upper staple. No. 1 with a very small chip to crown fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel, the same panel with a couple of light soil marks. Very Good Condition. -
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[ILLUMINATED] Poems by Carolyn Tebbetts
$500.00 Add to cartCarolyn Tebbetts; Elizabeth Mott Chesbrough?
: Elizabeth Mott Chesbrough?, 1910.
Poems by Carolyn Tebbets and one by John Banister Tabb, in manuscript with ornate watercolour borders. An inscription on a front flyleaf notes: “Virginia Tebbetts June 19, 1910. With love of Elizabeth Mott Chesbrough” designating the likely artist as Elizabeth, though this is uncertain. An additional watercolour with a poem in french is laid in. Housed in decorative handmade cloth wrappers with an original drawing of a pelican standing under a tree by the waterside. -
Das Jahr der Seele
$100.00 Add 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. -
The Garden of Adonis
$550.00 Add to cartOliver 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. -
Petites Miettes Amoureuses
$200.00 Add to cartPierre 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. -
Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
$150.00 Add 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. -
Tristan and Isolt: A Study of the Sources of the Romance (2 Volumes)
$100.00 Add to cartGertrude Schoepperle Loomis
New York: Burt Franklin, 1963. -
Early French Tristan Poems Volume II
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First Edition.
24cm x 15.5cm. [vi], 287 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering, paper label to upper board.
Very minor shelf wear. Minor foxing to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
Along the Fault Line: Late Slippages and Abrasions
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First Edition. Signed by Author
22.5cm x 15.5cm. 50 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering.
Limited to 350 copies, the first 100 signed by Gleeson, this being a signed copy, and with an invitiation to Gleeson’s 90th birthday celebration at the Art Gallery of NSW made out to Australian art collectors Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, with a vertical crease, laid in.
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The Doom of Man
$100.00 Add to cartThomas Rose
Sydney: Harold Murray, 1916.
Blank verse poem by New South Wales politician and lawyer Thomas Rose (1847-1926). -
Songs of Innocence & of Experience
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Thirteenth Folio Printing.
16cm x 11cm. xviii, [110] pages, colour illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, slipcase.
Introduction by Richard Holmes. FORD-SMITH 736.
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Drug Poems
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. [x], 70 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
The third poetry collection by Michael Dransfield (1948-1973) and the final published in his short lifetime.
Some insect damage to wrappers, edges, and first two leaves. Crease to wrappers lower panel. Good Condition. -
White Stains
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Reprint.
23cm x 15.5cm. 111 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
The Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop: A Neuropath of the Second Empire. Reprint of the erotic poetry collection by occultist Aleister Crowley first published in 1898 under the pseudonym George Archibald Bishop.
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Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
$100.00 Add 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. -
Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
$200.00 Add 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. -
W. B. Yeats: Collected Poems (The Folio Poets)
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First Edition.
28cm x 18cm. xxiv, 536 pages, black and white illustrations. Quarter leather, illustrated cloth, slipcase.
Introduction by Roy Foster, engravings by Harry Brockway. FORD-SMITH 1376.
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Selected Poems and Songs
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First Folio Printing.
22cm x 14cm. xx, 180 pages, illustrations in the text. Quarter purple cloth, illustrated papered boards, slipcase.
Selected and introduced by John Burnside, illustrated by Kit Russell. FORD-SMITH 1733.
Still sealed. Fine Condition.