Literature from Lawrence Jones

Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, 1967. iv, 33pp, tipped in portrait and folding plate with text of Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo in Mao's hand. Or red cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped and faded at spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier., 1898. 160pp, red coat of arms on endpaper. Or red cloth with title and vignette in black, spine title in gilt. Free endpapers toned, 2 numbers written on front endpapers, stamp of National Library of Australia on rear pastedown. Tiny bumps to bottom corners. Biography of Scottish poet and dramatist James Thomson.. Not Stated. Hard… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Playlab Press, 1995. 391pp, index, glossary, bibliography, appendices. Or card covers. Ex-library with 3 library stamps and cancelled stamp, also 2 sample copy stamps. Otherwise a very nice copy which apparently didnt see much use. Queensland has been the scene of some remarkable, even notorious political events and a number of theatre artists developed their philosophies and methodologies in… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1973. xii, 115pp. Or green cloth boards with gilt title to spine, in pictorial jacket. Jacket lightly soiled with 5cm tear on front flap fold and short tear at bottom of spine panel. Page edges lightly and evenly tone. Minor silverfishing to extreme bottom edge of front board. Signed, dated and inscribed to 'Charles' by the… Read more about this item

New York: Chelsea House, 1989. HEAVY. x, 511pp, index, bibliography, chronology. Or blue boards with black cloth spine in jacket. Bottom corner of front flap creased. Light thumb siling to page edges. Looks at authors who wrote between 1830 and 1880 with articles on all major Victorian novelists, as well as several second tier authors of the period. An essential… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1994. HEAVY. 952pp, title list, author list, alternate character names list. Or card covers. Very slight edge wear to covers- near new. A biographical encyclopaedia of more than 1500 of the most influential fictional creations of American writiers.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Salt Lake City: Commune-a-Key Publishing., 1997. xviii, 288pp, index, bibliography. Or card covers. Poetry, prayers and stories by women on the creation, healing, the feminine, family, loss, self and spirituality with contributions by Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Gina JOnes, Z Budapest, and women from all walks of life.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1981. 224pp. Or green cloth in jacket. Belated second impression of the third volume of Virginia Woolf's essays to be published posthumously. Subjects covered by the essays in this volume include the novels of Turgenev, Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, Walter Sickert, memories of a working women's guild, the cinema and flying over London and thunder at Wimbledon.… Read more about this item

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1986. xxvii, 265pp, bibliography. Or light blue cloth in jacket. Very light toning to pages, front flap of jacket creased, jacket spine somewhat faded. A selection of Australian poetry presented in parallel English and Greek text. Poets include Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright, David Malouf, among dozens of other significant poets.. First Australian Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1993. 34pp2 bw ills. Or card covers. Some foxing to first and last few pages. Dialogue from a film by poet Tony Harrison which was filmed on location in the Alzheimer's ward of High Royds Hospital. The things which seem to linger longest in the impaired memories of those affected by Alzheimer's are banal tunes and… Read more about this item

Budapest: Corvina, 1995. 270pp, bw ills. Or card covers with very light edge wear and slight lean to spine. Tragedy of Man is an epic dramatic poem in the European tradition which appeared form the pen of a then unknown HUngarian author. First published in Hungary 1862 to great acclaim it also raised a multitude of questions, both literary and… Read more about this item

London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. 447 pages + book catalogue, b/w ills. Pink name stamp with name absent above the list of illustrations and with name on the verso of the last page of text. There are silverfish traces on the page fore-edge. Hinges worn. Spine cocked. Salmon cloth faded, wrinkled with wear and tears at the spine head… Read more about this item

New York: WW Norton & Company, 1973. Reprint of the 1688 edition printed for W Canning, London. xv, 78 pages. There is some underlining in pencil on 4 pages of the 7-page Introduction. Paperback, with the remains of a price sticker on the front cover.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Picador, 2001. 217 pages. Paperback. 'Lily Brett's fifth collection of poetry, In Her Strapless Dresses, brings to life Carlton laneways, bicycles, family, New York and the author's relationship with her mother. In Mud in My Tears, Lily explores her role as daughter, mother, wife and friend in a family full of love but haunted by the Holocaust.'. Picador Edition.… Read more about this item

London: Vintage Books, 2002. 259pp. Or card covers. Very light toning to page edges.. First Vintage Books Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Paladin Press, 1986. 253pp. Or card covers. Some foxing and toning to edges and margins.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton No date, c1910. 46 pages, coloured frontispiece and four colour plates by Dudley Hardy, decorative end-papers. Cloth-backed papered boards with pictorial onlay at the centre of the front board. Gilt titles rubbed. . Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Dudley Hardy. 8vo.

New York: Basic Books, 2000. 212 pages. Fore-edge uncut. Two-tone papered boards in dust-jacket. From the blurb, Severin 'attempts to determine the likelihood of the existence of one of 9our most iconic modern myths -- the Great White Whale. He travels to the Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Archipelago, where 21-year-old Melvile deserted his whaling ship in 1842 and began… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids: Fleming H Revell, 1994. 192pp, bibliography. Or card covers. Slight edge wear to covers, tiny corner crease to front cover. The true story the movie Shadowlands, detailing the relationship of eminent Christian author and distinguished Oxford scholar CS Lewis; and Joy Davidson, a Jewish American divorcee and former Communist Party member.. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.… Read more about this item

Claremont, WA: Platypus Press, 1994. Introduction by Chris Moylan. Number 156 of a limited edition of 200 copies signed by the poet and the artist. viii, 84 pages, illustrated. Light card wrappers (colour cover illustration by Alun Leach-Jones), with a rubbed and edge-worn rear cover.. Signed by Author & Illustrator. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Linocuts by… Read more about this item