Slessor Kenneth Editor (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy, the paper browned, in very good slightly edgeworn dust jacket. Pp. xlv, 623.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Virgil Reilly (illustrator). Flyleaf has a few small spots ; B& W Illus; 34 pages.

1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour photos, 4 pages of appendix with maps, graphs and tables. Fp (in colour): In the Snowy mountains. Eps: Construction site. Cloth cover, illustrated slipcase. Occasional foxing. Near fine. Text in English, French and German. 31 x 23.3. Published for the Australian pavilion at the Comptoir Suisse, Lausanne: Tomorrow is everywhere in Australia / En Australie le futur est partout / Australien hat überall eine Zukunft.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Virgil Reilly (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good condition. A sequel to the extremely popular Kenneth Slessor/Virgil Reilly collaboration 'Darlinghurst Nights' Backless Betty from Bondi is a further selection of Slessor's illustrated light verse published in Smith's Weekly between 1924 and 1933.

Hardback. First edition. Published in1987. B&W Frontispiece of Kenneth Slessor.  The companion volume to 'The War Diaries of Kenneth Slessor' (1985), these 'despatches are a fascinating and memorable record of the daily lives of the men of the AIF and RAAF with whom he lived in London, Greece, Crete, Syria, Vichy France, the Western Desert and New Guinea (1940-1944). Good condition. Light tanning on page edges. Cover - maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover.  Dust jacket has some scuffing/bumping marks.

128 pp, quarto, pictorial end-papers, colour and b&w photographic illustrations, ex-library, else very good copy in brown cloth boards in very good pictorial slip-case. Text in Spanish and English.

Boards. Roy 8vo, pp xlviii, 623, b/w plates, pages browned at edges, orig boards, near fine, in like d.j. One of Australia's finest poets, Slessor was appointed official war correspondent and seved with Australian forces in Britain, Greece, the Middle East and Papua New Guinea.

Boards. Roy 8vo, pp xxxviii, 493, b/w plates, pages browned at edges, few faint marks to front endpapers, orig boards, near fine, in like d.j. Slessor's war despatches are a fascinating record of the daily lives of the men of the AIF and the RAAF with whom he lived for four years.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. 60pp, tipped in portrait of Henry Lawson. Or card. Spine toned, toned at spine and bottom edges. Issue includes: O'Grady, Desmond (on Henry Lawson); Fredman, L.E. (Melbourne's Bohemia of the 1890s); Bergner, Herz; Elliott, Brian; Thiele, Colin; Boyd, Ian Allison; Waten, Judith; Keesing, Nancy; Harris, Max; Porter, Hal; Higham, Charles; Thompson, John; Macartney, F.T. Size: 4to. Magazine.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. 60pp, tipped in portrait of Patrick White. Or card. Spine toned and a couple of tiny spots to cover. Issue includes: Anderson, Hugh; Stevenson, K (writing on Jules Verne in Australia); Thompson, John; Gilmore, Mary; Mathew, Ray; Wallace-Crabbe, Chris; Dutton, Geoffrey; Craig, Alexander; McDonald, Nan; Mudie, Ian; Cato, Nancy Size: 4to. Magazine.

60 pp, small quarto, tipped-in b&w frontispiece, upper wrapper creased, wrappers browned, else very good copy in limp wrappers. . Published in honour of the eightieth birthday of Norman Lindsay, born 23rd February 1879.

A literary quarterly. Nos.1-4. Pp. viii+48+[xv]+57+[xv]+57+[xv]+57, 1 hand-tipped plate (in No. 2), and numerous text illustration by Norman Lindsay; narrow cr. 4to; pictorial textured paper wrappers, each issue with a different illustration by Lindsay, a trifle soiled and foxed, the yapped edges slightly creased and split, tiny surface graze to front panel No. 1; a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; The Vision Press, Sydney, 1923-4. *Includes poetry and prose by Hugh McCrae, Kenneth Slessor, Jack Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Dorothea Mackellar, and others. Although the February 1924 issue includes an advertisement for No. 5, only four issues were ever published.