Pp. [vi]+18(last colophon), vignette illustration printed in grey on dedication page; printed paper wrappers with flap folds, lightly soiled, edges slightly creased; Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, 1943. First edition. Miller & Macartney p. 61. *The design on the dedication page is by Sergeant Athol Snook, R.A.A.F. More
A tribute to the Belgian king and people from representative men and women throughout the world. Introduction by Hall Caine. Pp. 188, black & white frontispiece portrait, plus 24 plates (17 coloured, all but one hand-tipped), black & white text illustrations, music scores; demy 4to; cream cloth, lettered & decorated..... More
Poems. Pp. 46, frontispiece portrait; printed brown paper wrappers, stitched; Georgian House, Melbourne, 1945. First edition. More
With an etched frontispiece by William Strang. Pp. xii+122(last colophon)+8(publisher's catalogue), frontispiece; blue cloth, printed paper title label on spine and upper board, the boards a trifle sprung, edges slightly rubbed, spine cloth faintly faded; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, the backstrip discoloured and grazed, edges lightly rubbed and..... More
An Australian Odyssey, which gives an account of the Life and Thoughts of a slave of the Samurai, during his three years and seven months as a Prisoner of War in the hands of the Japanese. Pp. xx+296, frontispiece portrait, 29 plates, text plus coloured endpaper maps; fore-edges of boards..... More
Portraits of Soldiers in Fact and Fiction, in Peace and at War. An Anthology of Prose and Poetry Chosen, Introduced and with a Foreword by Peter Ling. Pp. 248, 12 plates; top edge of lower board slightly bumped; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, slightly foxed on reverse, edges..... More
Pp. 16; printed red paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, a trifle marked, edges lightly creased and split, the backstrip faded and splitting; text block browned, corners faintly creased; Australasian Authors' Agency, Melbourne, 1917. First edition. Serle p. 217. *From the library of Australian historian and author Hugh Anderson, with his..... More
(World War II). Pp. 82, 2 full page illustrations, index; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, corners a trifle rubbed, N.S.W. Premier's Literary Awards 1995 shortlist label on upper wrapper; Five Islands Press, Wollongong, New South Wales, 1994. First edition. *Poetry. With relevant ephemera loosely inserted, including a copy of a typed..... More
Poems and photographs of Australians in the Great War. Pp. 112(last blank), pictorial double title page, text illustrations, notes on the poets; small cr. 4to; lower edges of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, short split from top of back flap fold, lightly foxed on reverse; free endpapers..... More
Pp. xiv+48; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and slightly split; a little light foxing; Currawong, Sydney, 1971. First edition in book form. *With publisher's printed Note to the Reviewer loosely inserted. Many of the poems were originally written in the jungles of Thailand, where the author was a prisoner-of-war. More
Royal Medal for Poetry, 1939, Newdigate Prize, 1939. Pp. [viii]+60(last blank); price-clipped pictorial paper wrappers over thin card, lightly soiled, backstrip folds lightly split and worn; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Putnam & Company Ltd., London, 1943. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his..... More
101 Australian war poems. Pp. xvi+224, biographical notes, index of first lines; dust wrapper; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *Inscribed on title page 'For David [Holloway], best wishes, Chris Wallace-Crabble. Poems by Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Christopher Brennan, C. J. Dennis, Les Murray, a.o. More
Lyrics from several wars. Pp. [16](last blank); f'cap. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled; Hastings Arts Pocket Press, East Sussex, 1993. Pickpockets No. 14. *Extracts from work by W. H. Auden, Bertholt Brecht, Wilfred Owen, Dylan Thomas, a.o. The editor/translator served in the Syrian and Western Desert campaigns during World..... More