Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Octavo, 255 pages, published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & New York in 1960. Very good near fine condition.

The collectable first book club edition with all the points covered – photo of the author by Truman Capote on the rear, vivid yellow colour to top edge, Jonathan Daniels review inside dust jacket.

Harper Lee’s classic – it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. For many years her only novel – something maybe makes us wish that was still the case.

Collectable and gift worthy

$180.00

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[Australian Poetry] The Lee Shore – John Couper

Published by Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1979, who did so much for Australian poetry and poets.

Soft cover but with a stiff paper jacket – upmarket presentation. Octavo, 90 pages – fours groups titles as to group … Versions of Horace; A Few Nice Letters to John Dunmore Lang; Elegies and Executions and Shade Across a Summer.

Witty and satiric with an intellectual shine … not only Horace but we have references to Villon [see our Villon] and Wordsworth – seemingly as savage as Swift … big shoe

The Lee Shore – a full course and fine meal.

$30.00

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Australian Poetry 1959 – Selected by Nancy Keesing

Published by Angus and Robertson, in 1959 – their annual celebration of Australian poetry selected by the well qualified Nancy Kessing.

Octavo, 96 pages and near as many poems by the likes of Douglas Stewart, Vincent Buckley, Mary Finnin, Mary Gilmore and Peter Hopegood.

Super selection, perhaps our favourite by Olive Pell – “I don’t give a damn’ …. But we do of course.

Australian Poetry 1959 a super year for it!

$25.00

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Australian Poetry – The Hooded Lamp – Roland Robinson

Published by poetry experts Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1976 a first and only edition.

Born Irish but came to Australia at the age of nine, Roland Robinson [192-1992] is recognised as one of Australis’s great poets.

This book of verse is the eighth published by Robinson since his first in 1944 when enlisted.

A lyrical writer in touch with the Australian landscape and its spiritual significance to aboriginals.

Winner of numerous literary awards.

Octavo, 56 pages, 42 poems in total

Roland Robinson maybe out there by himself in his era.

$30.00

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Australian Poetry – The Fabulous Dross – Thomas Naisby.

Published by poetry experts Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1979 a first and only edition.

Nice, neat production, octavo,70 pages with 70 poems written in an unusual, vigorous stimulating style. Titled the Fabulous Dross which is one group of poems – also a second group named Upper Allyn [with a Coda from Orange] … and a third named Beginnings. We like Fable; Four Creeks and Smokescreen respectively in each.

Thomas Naisby [1931-1989] was born in Sunderland England and came to Australia permanently in 1955.

Gift worthy Australian poetry by Naisby

$25.00

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Paris – Alvin Eiger – Wattle Grove Press – Limited Number Edition No 128 of 300 Copies – Hand Made Private Press – Tasmania.

See out other item re the Wattle Grove Press, Newham, Tasmania. Limited edition, few overall printings, hand-made books mainly publishing the works of Alvin Eiger [Rolf Hennequel].

This is numbered 128 of a limited edition of 300 copies all announced as printed on glare-free eucalyptus paper made in Tasmania, published in 1960.

Initialled by the author at the limitation in his own name not nom de plume.

Large format 30cm by 20cm. Stiff card covers, with several inner blank protective cover, tired to edges, art form paper title pasted to front [we have seen some variations even within only 300 – ours preferred, naturally].

Alvin [or Rolf] travelled extensively before settling in Tasmania – he was multilingual at a high standard.

This book 34 pages one side printed unusual bold font is devoted to Paris. Other booksellers having read each other blurb focus on its interest in the seedy side of the City of Light. It is not like that at all, it’s a lengthy observation and part tour of the most interesting elements with place, history and purpose being the underlying subject. We love it, a sophisticated view that tells a story too, making it very readable and somewhat unique. No smutty here.

Unusual Collectable Tasmanian Private Press and all about Paris

$140.00

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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

[Australian Poetry] The Lee Shore – John Couper

Australian Poetry 1959 – Selected by Nancy Keesing

Australian Poetry – The Hooded Lamp – Roland Robinson

Australian Poetry – The Fabulous Dross – Thomas Naisby.

Paris – Alvin Eiger – Wattle Grove Press – Limited Number Edition No 128 of 300 Copies – Hand Made Private Press – Tasmania.

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