First Things Last by Malouf David (20 results)

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned, with crease to upper corner. Clean internally, with margins faintly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 58 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Australian poetry--20th century. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned, with crease to upper corner. Clean internally, with margins faintly sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 58 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Australian poetry--20th century. 1 Kg.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published as a paperback original in 1981 by Chatto & Windus. Originally published in Australia by the University of Queensland Press in both hardback and paperback issues. Cover design by Christopher McKimmie. Malouf's fifth solo poetry collection. ***A very good copy in illustrated glossy card covers. Edges of covers just very slightly rubbed and creased, with a crease to the top corner tips of the last few pages. The orange colour of the back cover has unevenly faded to yellow at the top edge and near the spine. No inscriptions. Pages clean and white. 58 pages. 216mm x 14 mm. ***'"First Things Last" is David Malouf's first collection of poems to be published in this country. In it he moves back to the Deception Bay of his childhood to explore questions of time, memory and continuity, and in a series of Odes towards the end of the book he turns to music and to Italy for their sustaining images of wholeness. The centre of the collection, "The Crab Feast", is a lyrical-dramatic attempt to recover from disruption the essential kinship of man and beast and to affirm the unity of the created world. ***David Malouf was born in Brisbane. He has lived in England and now divides his time between Australia and Italy. Besides three earlier collections of poetry, he has published two novels. Of his recent novel, "An Imaginary Life," Alan Brien wrote in the Sunday Times: "This meticulously well-told tale --- is quiet, intense, low key but hypnotic in its gripping accumulation of detail, its gradual unwrapping of human reality amid what at first seems a barbarian and unknowable environment."' (Quotes taken from the back cover) ***A very good copy of David Malouf's first poetry collection to be published in the UK. There is no hardback equivalent published in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Christopher McKimmie (Cover design) (illustrator).…

hardbound. 1st hardbound edition of this collection of poems by David Malouf; gift-inscription (5 lines) to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper sunned to spine, and to rear panel along spine and top edge, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 58pp. 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. 58 pages. Name inside front cover.

Hardcover, 58 pages. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue boards with gilding on outer spine. Bumping and rubbing to spine, boards and corners. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Soiling, age wear, rubbing, scuffing and bumping to dust jacket.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed, occ. spots/marks, sunning to spine); pp. [vi], 58. A very good copy.

Paperback. 1980. First edition. A very good copy with light partial sunfading of the rear wrap and lightly tanned edges. This copy has been SIGNED (not inscribed) by the author on the title page.

58pp. 8vo. Original wrappers, backstrip sunned. Name sticker on inner cover. A very good copy.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ a little sunned on rear panel and some mild scattered foxing to top edge. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 58 pages.…

[6]+58pp. Original wrappers. Fine. The paperback issue of the first edition. Scarce. Signed copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Signed. Inscribed by author to former owner, a bookseller; dated 11.9.88. Very slight shelf wear. Mild toning and sunning to edges. Else clean. Binding secure.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue cloth. Book is in great shape, clean and sharp all around, essentially as new. Dust jacket has a sunfade that turns the orange dust jacket yellow on spine, spine flaps and edges. jacket is otherwise very sharp and is now protected in a mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 58 p. 23 cm. Blue hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket designed by Christopher McKimmie. Small bookseller's label on front pastedown.

First Edition. Poems. Pp. [vi]+58; demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, laminate lifting slightly near head and tail of backstrip; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1980. First edition, paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in modestly spine faded else fine dustwrapper. The scarce hardcover issue of this early book of poetry.

HARDCOVER. 1980. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w that is now in a protective cover. This copy is a review copy and has the original publishers slip loosely tipped in. This copy has been SIGNED (not inscribed) by the author on the title page. A superb copy. Scans available if required.…

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. F-. First Edition. F-/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (prev. owner's name and date to FFE) in unpriced dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed, sunning to spine and lower panel); pp. [vi], 58. A near fine copy. Inscribed to prev. owner to title page by the author, 'David Malouf'. Signed by Author. …

58pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, backstrip minimally sunned. A near fine copy. First edition. The scarce hardback issue.

First edition. Author's complimentary copy. Hardcover. Some light edge foxing, otherwise fine in very good dustjacket with the spine background colour a little faded (as usual), but not affecting the strength of the lettering. This copy includes a "With The Compliments of." slip, in which the word "manager" has been whited-out and "David Malouf" typed overtop. So, one of the author's complimentary copies, but not signed or passed on by him.…