Search Results: Poetry from Lems Bookshop

Thirty six poems and paintings of Australia selected by the author. 80 pages with 36 colour illustrations. Book and dust jacket in very good+ condition.

Poems of Banjo Paterson selected by Margaret Olds. Illustrated with Australian Landscape paintings. 52 pages with 15 colour and 7 black and white illustrations. Book in very good+ condition. This is a small book and postage reduced in Australia if tracking not needed.

A selection of poems inspired by life and scenery in Australia - an enlarged Edition of "Australian Ballads and Rhymes". 583 gilt edged pages. Book in very good condition with inscription to previous owner stuck on title page, minor foxing on a few pages, some tape on back endpaper, and light tanning. Cover has some wear and card stuck to front (see photo).

A collection of Australian Bush Verse bringing to life the characters of the bush through the words of Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Adam Lindsay Gordon and others. 112 pages with colour photographs by Gary Lewis throughout. Book in near fine condition with previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with minor wear.

Poems and works of Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson selected by David Forsythe. Two volumes both 752 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Both copies in as new condition in slip case. Combined weight 3.5kg but no increase in postage in Australia

37 Plays, and 7 Poems. 1,229 pages with some black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition with some light tanning. This is a larger book but no increase in postage in Australia.

The author introduces poems by Tennyson using various parts of the day in narrative. 48 pages with 6 colour paintings. Book in good+ condition with inscription to previous owner on first page, one picture loose, some tanning. Cover missing to spine but all intact and some wear.

Milton's work was bound to the events of his time including the English Civil War and the restoration of the monarchy. Nearly all his poems are mentioned but mostly Paradise Lost. Few poets have produced such conflicting critical opinions as Milton did. 136 pages with colour illustrations on 36 pages and many black and white illustrations. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition with small booksellers sticker first endpaper.

Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by L Schiavonetti from the original inventions of William Blake 1808. This issue is founded on the Edition published by R H Cromek in the year 1808. Twenty pages of preamble followed by 44 pages plus the etchings. Book in good condition despite the stain to cover which extends to bottom of first twelve pages (not poem) and does not impinge on any text or illustration. Light tanning and some wear to cover (see photo).

Poems of Henry Lawson selected by Margaret Olds. Illustrated with Australian Landscape paintings. 52 pages with 14 colour and 8 black and white illustrations. Book in very good+ condition. This is a small book and postage reduced in Australia if tracking not needed.

Eight Lays and nine Miscellaneous Poems and Appendix. 359 pages. Book in good+ condition with inscriptions on second and title page, drawing on short title page, some red colour from cover on small section of margin on first ten pages, stamp embossed on front endpaper, cover has some wear (see photo).

Fifty of Burns' songs, poems, epistles and letters - grave and gay, religious and frivilous, divine and human - with comment and reference to the original. 160 pages with 24 illustrations. Book in very good condition with some minor wear.

Another book of verses about Christopher Robin who is a little older now and of course Pooh who couldn't possible be forgotten. 102 pages with illustrations throughout the text. Book in near fine condition with birthday greeting on first blank page. Dust jacket in near fine condition.

A collection of verses inspired by the great Milne following his rhymes and rhythms to remind those getting on in years of the wit, wisdom and whimsy he conjured up for those who were very young. 112 pages with numerous illustrations. Book in near fine condition as is dust jacket price clipped.

Lovable cat poems written by T S Eliot for his godchildren and friends in the 1930's. 64 pages with 14 colour pictures by Nicolas Bentley. Book in very good condition with previous owners name and a date on first page.

A collection of Hugh Sawrey paintings and sketches inspired by the great Australian bush ballads. 112 pages including 25 colour paintings. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor knocks and wear.

This edition reset with an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes by Owen Knowles. The most striking fact about Owen's career as a poet is the astonishing speed of his development. The book prints his work in approximately chronological order and so allows the reader the opportunity to follow this development from the apprentice to the last poems written just before he died in battle a week before Armistice in 1918, he was 25. 110 pages. Book in near fine condition.

Twenty of Henry Lawson's poems each with an accompanying colour painting by Ninon Phillips. 64 pages with 20 colour paintings. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition.

Selected poems of Henry Lawson by Walter Stone and each illustrated by paintings by Pro Hart. 79 pages with 26 colour illustrations. Book and dust jacket in very good+ condition.

Banjo Paterson is a symbol of the outback for most Australians - his 41 poems capture the spirit of the bush people, celebrate the vast distances and the harsh and beautiful places. Pro Hart's paintings reflect the moods of the poems. 136 pages with 50 colour illustrations. Book in near fine condition with previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition with chips and dents top and bottom spine and minor wear.