Val Vallis (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, AUS. 1961. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for where the poet has corrected line 7, pg 14 by inserting the word "beyond." Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; slight suntoning to spine; bumping along top edge of jacket; small closed tears to front panel top edge. Green paper over boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are clean not split. 63 pp 8vo. This book is the second collection of poems published in 1961 by the Australian poet, lecturer and opera critic Valentine Thomas Vallis (1916 - 2009). Though poetry was his chief passion, Vallis was also a renowned opera enthusiast, for many years serving as opera critic for The Bulletin, The Australian, and the British journal, Opera. This is a book of mainly nautical themed poems most of which are cast in a dark tone as the title implies. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…

Condition: FINE. First printing. The author's second poetry collection, one which contains the best of his mature poems - lyrical and delicate. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper "For Jim with thanks for so much in so short a time" and dated in 1962 in Brisbane. The poet has corrected line 7, pg 14 by inserting the word "beyond." 63 pp plus acknowledgements. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition hard cover in very good condition, with a clipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of Warwick Gould, the Australian-born British literary scholar and leading authority on W.B. Yeats, who served as editor of The Yeats Annual for more than four decades. Ownership penned to FEP. General shelf and handling wear, including discolouration, tanning, (notable to spine), and wear to dust jacket. Nicks and chips to DJ edges, small closed tears noted. Pageblock tanned, light tanning to endpapers. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN. Ressom, Richard, (Jacket Design) (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 304 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 74 pp. 0.0.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition of this late collection by Val Vallis, bearing the same title as his first collection - Vallis states thus in the foreword 'Walt Whitman gave the title Leaves of Grass to every collection of his poetry.I have decided to give the same continuity to my own poetry.so i have revived my 1947 title Songs of the East Coast'; Signed and with gift-inscription by Vallis to title page; knock top corner of text block with prominent creases resulting, foxing to endpapers, o.w. Good. . 86pp. large 8vo. Good.…

hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Signed 1st Edition of Val Vallis' second collection, with gift-inscription by Vallis to front endpaper, and flat-signed to half-title page; one poem (Wave-Break) with one biro correction in Vallis' hand, inserting the word 'beyond' into the line "So, this love Has combed [beyond] its sea-swell on a word", and a second correction to the poem 'Michael', changing the word 'beyond' to 'behold'; foxing/offset to endpapers, prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper a little rubbed, tanned to spine, price clipped, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 63pp. 8vo. Very Good.…

hardbound. Condition: Very Good in Good dustwrapper. The eleventh volume of Australian Poetry (for the year 1953), poems selected by Nan McDonald; poems by Wright, Dobson, McAuley, Webb, Mathew, Riddell, Val Vallis, Campbell, Gilmore, and many more; Association copy with inscription from Val Vallis to writer and Brisbane music personality Don Munro "For Don, Though the wave break, still flows the tide. Val 6 September, 1953", a reference to the Vallis poem 'Wave-Break'; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, occasional foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, foxing to flaps and rear panel, price clipped, o.w. Good. Dustwrapper. 80pp. 12mo. Very Good in Good dustwrapper.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine octavo. 63pp..

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine in Mylar Sleeve. First Edition. A firm straight unmarked book and dust jacket. Just out of long-term storage, appears unread, almost as good as new. 304 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Beige boards with green printing on spine. Head and tail of spine are slightly bumped and discoloured from age, else in very good condition. Binding neat and tidy. Endpapers in very good condition, with previous bookseller's stamp on front pastedown. Pages slightly foxed on top edge, else in very good condition. Dustwrapper very slightly worn on top edge, else in very good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.…