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  • Australian Poetry – Apocalypse in Springtime – Lex Banning – 1956

    Australian Poetry – Apocalypse in Springtime – Lex Banning – 1956

    A first edition of what we believe is Lex Banning’s final published collection

    Arthur Alexander [Lex] Banning (1921-1965) had a difficult upbringing. He has cerebral palsy to an extent that he had little control over his arms. His studies could only be completed by dictation. Thoughtful and thought provoking and some hard reality.

    Slim octavo, published by Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1956. 34 pages. Top of decorative dust jacket a tiny bit damaged as it is cut just too large for the book. Otherwise, a very good copy.

    Lex Banning had something to say …

    $25.00

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  • Australian Poetry – Light -Margaret Diesendorf – 1981

    Australian Poetry – Light -Margaret Diesendorf – 1981

    A first edition of Margaret Diesendorf’s first published collection of poetry. A very special collection by a special person.

    Margaret Diesendorf (1912-1993) escaped Austria in 1938 and made her way to Australia. Her Jewish partner, an engineer, left separately and they came together and made a life first in Sydney. She was a highly respected translator … she taught languages and did translations for the likes of the ABC. Later in life she concentrated more of original poetry and was to write upwards of six hundred poems.

    An unusual, interesting and exciting style drawing on her understanding of the arts and the World outside Australia. She had a passion for writing poems stimulated by great art works and great artists. This book is set out in two section – the first “On Canvas” represents this them with poems about works by Monet, Picasso, Modigliani, Klimt [the Kiss] and also Australian artists Brett Whiteley [soup Kitchen] and Lloyd Rees [the Pinnacle Mount Wellington].

    Slim octavo, published by Edwards and Shaw, Sydney, 1981. 79 pages. A very good copy of another nice production.

    Gift worthy poetry and a Voyager favourite

    $30.00

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  • Australian Poetry – The Walk along the Beach – R.A. Simpson – 1960

    Australian Poetry – The Walk along the Beach – R.A. Simpson – 1960

    A first edition of Ronald Albert Simpson’s first published book of poetry. He would go on to published ten collections over the next couple of decades.

    Simpson (1929-2002) was a member of what was to be called the “Melbourne Group” his and their style being focused on Australian suburban themes. He was awarded the Christopher Brennan prize for his poetry.

    Slim octavo, published by Edwards and Shaw, Sydney. 45 pages, a poem per page. Decorative but understated dust jacket. A very good copy of a very nice production.

    Gift worthy poetry Simpson’s first collection.

    $25.00

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  • Plays in One Act – M.S. Armstrong [Thomas; Penny Dreadful; Drought] – Sydney 1958.

    Plays in One Act – M.S. Armstrong [Thomas; Penny Dreadful; Drought] – Sydney 1958.

    The playwright Millicent Sylvia Armstrong [1888-1973] was born at Waverley in Sydney and along with her sisters attended Sydney University where she obtained a First in English Language.

    She moved to London in 1914 to pursue a writing career but was soon involved in support services in WWI. Near the end of the war, she was a nurse in France and helped to rescue many from the advancing German Army for which she received the Croix de Guerre.

    Later back in Australia she took to the land and writing short plays. Drought the third presented here won the 1923 Rupert Brooke Prize.

    A scarce book published by Edwards & Shaw, Sydney in 1958. Slim octavo, sixty-nine pages. The first two Thomas and Penny Dreadful are what are commonly called “drawing room plays”. Penny Dreadful is particularly tense. Drought must be one of the shortest plays to convey such strong feelings ever written at eight pages.

    Each play is beautifully introduced with a detailed description of the setting and an introduction to the nature of the characters.

    We like it!

    Three interesting plays by an Australian woman ahead of here times – very readable.

    $30.00

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  • Happy Valley – Patrick White

    Happy Valley – Patrick White

    Nobel Laureate Patrick White had Happy Valley published in the UK in 1939. During his life he refused to allow the book to be re-published. So, it took to this issue published by the unusual Text Publishing of Melbourne in 2012 for it to appear as a second edition.

    Octavo, 407 pages plus catalogue, decorative endpapers. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

    White had spent time at a station in New South Wales as a jackaroo. He was not cut out for it. Nevertheless, the experience provided rather useful in writing this book … he had lived a colourful life to that stage and that would continue. Drawing on writers he had met and admired – Joyce, Woolf, DHL etc this is a complex novel of an exceptional standard.

    Patrick White and his Happy Valley full of character and intrigue.

    $40.00

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  • The Men That God Forgot – Richard Butler

    The Men That God Forgot – Richard Butler

    First edition published by Hutchinson’s London in 1975. Octavo, 254 pages plus bibliography, end paper maps. Very good condition.

    The most remote penal colony in the world was Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen’s Land. In 1833 after eleven years of misery it was decided to close it down and move the convicts to Port Arthur. Ten convicts were commissioned with the task of constructing a Brig to make the voyage around the coast. They saw their chance and seized the vessel and made their escape … but as always there is more to the story.

    A well researched highly fact backed novelisation – super read.

    The story of the final escape form Sarah’s Island through the Gates of Hell

    $30.00

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