max harris geoffrey dutton (13 Ergebnisse)

24.0 x 16.0cms 266pp b/w Illusts very good hardcover & dustwrapper (mildly sunned spine) This book traces some of the ideas and images that inspired Sydney''s artists writers and architects from the 1930s to the creative ferment of the 1960s. It places successive cultural ''scandals'' and oxymorons in perspective ''follows the often twisted threads that connected them and salutes the innovative energies of the city that spawned them''.

25.5 x 19.0cms 136pp b/w & Colour Illust very good+ paperback & cover (owner''s inscription) Dutton traces the rise and fall of the squatters who became Australia''s land barons and an elite social clique.

24.0 x 16.0cms 266pp b/w Illusts very good hardcover & dustwrapper (mildly sunned spine) This book traces some of the ideas and images that inspired Sydney''s artists writers and architects from the 1930s to the creative ferment of the 1960s. It places successive cultural ''scandals'' and oxymorons in perspective ''follows the often twisted threads that connected them and salutes the innovative energies of the city that spawned them''.

Softcover. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Colour and Black & white illustrations. Some staining to spine. 51 pages. This issue features Night Fishing by Geoffrey Dutton illustrated by Lawrence Daws; Catherine Martin the Lost Novelist, featuring one of her short stories, Nellie Melba and the Gum Leaf and an article Catherine Martin and the Critics by John Byrnes; The Lampoonist by Thelma Foreshaw; The Upside-Down Hut [an article] by Judith Wright; Satirical Poetry by John Bray, Allison Boyd and Colin Thiele; A Change for the Better by Peter Mathers; Market Garden [a poem] by Robert Clark; Book Reviews. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

58pp. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Colour plates and black and white illustrations. A very good copy. First edition. Art by Donald Friend and poems by Douglas Stewart.

252pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white and colour plates and illustrations. A very good copy. First edition.

25.5 x 19.0cms 252pp b/w & Some Colour Illusts; very good+ hardback & dustwrapper This is an anthology of ''some of the best work that appeared in the ten years of the magazine ''Australian Letters'' (1957-1967). Many of the era''s foremost artists have illustrated the writers'' stories and poems.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 252 pages : illustrations, plates ; 26 cm. Subjects: Arts Australia; Arts, Australian; Australian literature; Australian literature Collections. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Previous owner has signed inside page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1968. Quarto, 252 pages with black and white and coloured plates. Papered boards; top edge gilt; an excellent copy with the slightly rubbed dustwrapper slightly torn with trifling loss. Signed by the Geoffrey Dutton and Max Harris on the verso of the half title.

stiff card. 1959 edition of Verse in Australia, FROM THE LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER KOCH, flat-signed by Koch to front endpaper; contains Koch's poem Love Present, Love Past - the poem is marked by Koch in the contents with an asterisk, and one correction is made by Koch to the text of the poem (where a t is left out of the word thought); other poets include David Campbell, Rosemary Dobson, Anne Bell, Flexmore Hudson, Vivian Smith, Judith Wright; Very Good throughout; dustwrapper a little rubbed, toned to spine, o.w. G-VG. Dustwrapper. 49pp. large 8vo. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper (minor annotation by Koch) Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper (minor annotation by Koch).

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. b&w illustrations (illustrator). The first three issues of 'Australian Letters', a journal of Australian art, poetry, literature, and other cultural content, which ran from 1957-1968; edited by Max Harris, Geoffrey Dutton, and Bryn Davies; contributions by Slessor, Stow, Kershaw, Thiele, Cato, Campbell, Harris, and many more; volume 1 no. 2 with hand-tipped plate to front cover; wraps rubbed, minor creases and occasional foxing in text, o.w. Very Good. . . 3 vols 24.5 x 18.5cm. Very Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good in rubbed wraps. profusely illustrated (illustrator). Scarce complete run of all 28 issues of 'Australian Letters', a journal of Australian art, poetry, literature, and other cultural content, running from 1957-1968, edited by Max Harris, Geoffrey Dutton, Bryn Davies (and Rosemary Wighton), and featuring contributions by a roll-call of prominent Australian artists and writers such as Wright, Slessor, Stow, Shapcott, Harwood, etc; the first two issues in plain printed wraps, from Vol. 1 No. 3 artists including Drysdale, Boyd, Jacqueline Hick, Robert Juniper, Donald Friend, John Brack, etc produced cover art specially executed for Australian Letters; from Vol 3 No 4 Australian Letters began pairing artists and poets in commissioned collaborations, beginning with Geoffrey Dutton/Lawrence Daws, going on to feature Harris/Boyd, Campbell/Drysdale, Wright/Pugh, Shapcott/Juniper, Brack/Wallace-Crabbe, etc, producing 19 such unique combinations; Vol 2 No 3 featured a piece on the Christmas cards of Anthony Harvey, which included three hand-tipped plates (one to front cover), Vol 7 No 3 published a new Patrick White novella 'A Woman's Hand'; illustrations throughout in b&w and with some colour plates; from the library of writer and book-collector Gavin Semple (who has signed the odd issue top front cover); condition generally Very Good throughout, with foxing to title and last pages, occasional creases to corners of pages, occasional scattered foxing; wraps rubbed and foxed, some issues with wear, creases and loss along spine. . . 28 vols 24.5 x 18.5cm. Very Good in rubbed wraps.