Illustrated with Official War Photographs by the Dept. of Information, Commonwealth of Australia. Pp. 104, 8 plates within pagination; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, edges worn and slightly creased, the backstrip chipped, split and detached; leaves foxed, endpapers soiled; F. H. Johnston Publishing Company, Sydney, n.d. First edition. *Poems...
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.
Poems. Pp. 46, frontispiece portrait; printed brown paper wrappers, stitched; Georgian House, Melbourne, 1945. First edition.
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.....
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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.
Composed entirely from articles & sketches contributed by soldiers. Pp. 240, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece (lower right hand corner creased), plus 1 coloured plate, numerous text illustrations (some full or double page, 1 printed in blue), the title page printed in red & black; small cr. 4to; maize cloth, lettered and...
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...
