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... More about THE FUZZY WUZZY ANGELS AND OTHER VERSES
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 about THE ROAD TO KOKODA AND OTHER VERSES
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 about KING ALBERT'S BOOK
Poems. Pp. 46, frontispiece portrait; printed brown paper wrappers, stitched; Georgian House, Melbourne, 1945. First edition. More about TO THOSE WHO SURVIVE
Edited by George Goodchild. Pp. 232, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece, plus 17 plates (10 coloured), the title printed in red within a dark green decorative border; small cr. 4to; beige cloth, lettered and decorated in red & green, lightly soiled and rubbed, edges slightly bruised; top edges olive green; some foxing... More about THE BLINDED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS GIFT BOOK
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 about NOW AND THEN
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 about SLAVES OF THE SAMURAI
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 about GENTLEMEN AT ARMS
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 about TO GOD: from the weary nations
(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 about VIEW FROM THE TURRET
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 about SHADOWS FROM WIRE
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 about TRADEWAYS
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 about WHO WAS THE ENEMY?