Hard Light Verses by Macartney Frederick (3 results)

1st edition hardback in original cloth Near Fine small quarto 43pp., illusts., With six tipped-in lino-cuts by the author. Verse about the Northern Territory written while the author lived there from 1921 till the end of 1932. Inscribed 'To M. Montgomery from the author'. Also signed Frederick T. Macartney on verso of title-page. Nice copy. …

Surrey Hills, Vic. : The Galleon Press, 1934. Square octavo, green cloth boards with pictorial paper onlay to front featuring a linocut by the poet; 43 pp, illustrated with a further 6 tipped-in linocuts by Macartney; lightly marked, a very good copy. Presentation inscription to a previous owner pasted on a small card on the endpaper. 'These verses about the North [of Australia] were written while the author lived there from the beginning of 1921 till the end of 1932. Most of them appeared originally in the Sydney "Bulletin" and are here published by permission of the proprietors of that journal." (t.p. verso).…

Surrey Hills, Vic. : The Galleon Press, 1934. Square octavo, green cloth boards with pictorial paper onlay to front featuring a linocut by the poet; 43 pp, illustrated with a further 6 tipped-in linocuts by Macartney; lightly marked, a very good copy. Presentation inscription to a previous owner pasted on a small card on the endpaper. 'These verses about the North [of Australia] were written while the author lived there from the beginning of 1921 till the end of 1932. Most of them appeared originally in the Sydney "Bulletin" and are here published by permission of the proprietors of that journal." (t.p. verso).…