Serle Percival Editor (3 results)
Published by Collins Bros. & Co. Ltd. [1946], Sydney, 1946
- Hardcover
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Third Edition. Good+/VG- (DJ nicked, inner hinges weak, text browning) 8vo DJ 336pp Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.
More imagesPublished by W Collins Sons, London, UK, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United KingdomBookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet)
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Condition: Used - Good
£ 13.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. 300pp, In orange cloth-covered boards with faded gilt titles and decertations (boards worn, rubbed on corners and around spine, mildly marked). Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, initials on paste down, gutter strained between endpapers and half titl…e, else internally neat, clean and bright. Firmly bound. A selection of verse from Australia and New Zealand, including poets such as Charles Harpur, James Lionel Michael, George Gordon McCrae, Henry Kendall, Arnold Wall,Lesbia V Harford, Nettie Palmer, Zora Cross and many others.
Language: English
Published by Officina Brindabella, Canberra, Deakin, 1988
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, AustraliaBOOKHOME SYDNEY
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1st ed. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, light brown paper covered boards (beige cloth spine), illustrated endpapers, paper title on spine, sepia (brown-tinted) frontispiece portrait, tiny scuff fore-edge front cover, edges & front flyleaf lightly foxed. 59 pp. Apart from his own recollections, th…is memoir by Percival Serle is based on the short unpublished autobiography that he wrote late in life, and on diaries which he occasionally kept, here edited by his son Geoffrey Serle. His broad career included biographer, bibliographer, anthologist and art curator. He is best known for his Dictionary of Australian Biography, 1949. More than 100 people - writers, artists, professors and others - are mentioned in this memoir, testimony to widespread network. (No 115 of a limited edition of 350 autographed copies, designed and printed by A.T. Bolton at the Officina Brindabella, 1988. Hand binding and paper decoration by Helen Wadlington. This book is a hardback: Amazon incorrectly states paperback.).
