Choate Alec (16 results)

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has light toning. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Previous owner gift message in ffep.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. 84pp., with illustrations by Geoffrey Wake. A clean copy in Very Good condition with slight cocking to the spine and light shelfwear. A scarce copy. // 'Gifts Upon the Water is the sixth title in a paperback series devoted primarily to the work of Western Australian writers whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies but who have not yet had a collection published.' ~ Publisher.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 242 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Uncommon collection of poetry by the English-born Australian author. "A Marking of Fire, Alec Choate's second collection of poetry, is a work of mature voice that is at once keenly visual and contemplative. Ranging from simple lyrics to sustained meditations, the poems reflect the author's concerns with landscape, people, and the transforming power of art." Printed in Australia. Bound in original white printed wraps, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 89pp. Scarce. SB-32. …

Octavo softcover, stapled light card covers (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardback. 1979. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp.xii+242. 23cm. Decorated title page. List of contributors with brief biographical detail. Hard cover in dust jacket. A very good clean copy Contributors include: Hal Colebatch, Peter Cowan, Elizabeth Durack, Mary Durack, Rica Erickson, G.M.Glaskin, Alexandra Hasluck, Elizabeth Jolley, Fay Zwicky.…

SOFTCOVER. Victor Publishing, 2002. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by a single crease to the front wrap. This copy has been inscribed, dated and SIGNED by the author to the front page.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition of Alec Choate's first collection of poems, being volume 6 in the West Coast Writing series; b&w drawings by Geoffrey Wake; wraps lightly rubbed and with some toning to edges, mild foxing, o.w. Very Good. . 84pp. 8vo. Very Good. b&w illustrations (illustrator).…

8vo. xiv+242pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. . First edition. Contributors include Elizabeth Jolley, Fay Zwicky. Peter Cowan, Elizabeth and Mary Durack, and Alexandra Hasluck.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Some sunning of top book edge. Black pen mark on black inside page. Alec Choate's second collection of poetry is a work of mature voice that is at once keenly visual and contemplative. Ranging from simple lyrics to sustained meditations, the poems reflect the author's concerns with landscape, people, and the transforming power of art. (back cover).…

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Near Fine. WEST AUSTRALIANA English literature. Western Australian writers, 1945-. Anthologies. | Australian literature -- Western Australia. | Western Australia -- Literary collections. xxi, 242 p. ; 24 cm. #0821/110323 First Edition.Mary Durack, Fay Zwicky, Alexandra Hasluck, T.A.G. Hungerford, Ray Oldham, Elizabeth Jolley, Nicholas Hasluck, Hal Colebatch,et al Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Editon. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.Foredges have sunned. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good. Summerland is an anthology of poetry and prose covering the years 1973-1978. All its writers, fifty-five of them, are from Western Australia by birth or adoption.…

HARDCOVER. 1979. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by a gift inscription to the front free endpaper. The d/w is fine.

HB BLUE CLOTH FINE PP241 DW FINE 8V0 A Western Australian Sesquicentenary Anthology of Poetry and Prose.

Co-edited by Barbara York Main. University of Western Australia Press 1979. Fine in like jacket. Signed, with a long note, by Bill (Jamieson) Brown, one of the contributors, half title page, referencing his story.