Perryman C Elliott (3 results)

Single stiff paper sheet folded to form a small octavo greeting card, with author, title and illustration on the first page (verso blank), printed text of the title poem above a handwritten inscription and date, the last page blank; the paper faintly browned and a trifle creased; [the author, Mount Gambier, South Australia?], 1941. Not listed separately in Farmer; BAL P-Z p. 54. *The inscription is to 'Harry' [Muir] from 'C. Elliott Perryman Xmas 1941'. The illustration is also by Perryman. Born in 1887 at Port MacDonnell in South Australia, Charles Elliott Perryman served in World War I with the Army Medical Corps. He studied art, and worked for a time in the 1930s as a lighthouse keeper at Cape Willoughby. E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935 records that Elliott contributed to various journals including Pearson's Magazine and The Advertiser, and that he also published poems and drawings in the form of greeting cards for his friends. Signed.…

Single light brown stiff paper sheet, folded to form a small octavo greeting card, with author and title printed on the first page, hand-tipped photograph of the author on second page, and a two stanza poem printed on page [3], the final page blank; small mark (from the glue used to secure the photo on reverse) near top edge of first page; [the author, Mount Gambier, South Australia, 1943?]. Not listed separately in Farmer; BAL P-Z p. 54. *Inscribed 'Best wishes 1943' and signed by the author at foot of photograph. Born in 1887 at Port MacDonnell in South Australia, Charles Elliott Perryman served in World War I with the Army Medical Corps. He studied art, and worked for a time in the 1930s as a lighthouse keeper at Cape Willoughby. E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935 records that Elliott contributed to various journals including Pearson's Magazineand The Advertiser, and that he also published poems and drawings in the form of greeting cards for his friends. Signed.…

Selected Poems. Pp. [20], frontispiece; plain cream textured paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, the top edge uncut, faintly soiled; Myall Press, Adelaide, 1940. Edition limited to 500 copies, signed by the poet. Farmer p. 57; Miller & Macartney p. 379. *First published in 1938 or 1939? Loosely inserted is a folded printed sheet featuring 4 other short poems, presumably also by Perryman: The Captain's Head; To John Keats; Narcissus; and To Rupert Brooke.…