Dransfield Michael (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 85pp. Light rubbing to cover. Otherwise excellent tight clean copy. GL 03/25.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition of Michael Dransfield's first book of poetry, being no. 2 in the Paperback Poets series published by the University of Queensland Press; original price of $1 to front cover; Very Good throughout; wraps rubbed and foxed to front, heavily rubbed to rear, wear to foot of spine. . 77pp. 12mo. Very Good.

hardbound. Condition: Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper. 1st hardback edition of this collection of posthumous poems by Michael Dransfield - collected, edited and with an introduction by Rodney Hall, being the first of two such collections, made up of poems unpublished at the time of the poet's death; brown cloth boards with orange and white titling to spine, light orange endpapers; medium tanning to front endpaper, light toning to prelims, text block foxed, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper with closed tear/crease/minor loss top front at head of spine, o.w. Very Good. Dustwrapper. 149pp. 8vo. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. McVinish, Christopher (jacket design and photograph) (illustrator). xxvi, 150pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, orange and white titles on spine, yellow endpapers. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends, some shelf bumping to top and bottom board edges. Text block edges lightly tanned, top edge foxing and has a remainder mark. Lending library markings on front free endpaper and copyright page. Page margins starting to tan. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket is protected in a Brodart style sleeve, shelf number sticker on spine (under sleeve). Collected and edited by Rodney Hall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. Collected and Edited by Rodney Hall. Soft covers bear some thumbing, and markings. Corners are creased and curling abit. Page edges are showing some discolouration. Verso covers bearing some rubbing and wear. Binding neat and tidy. Half-title page bear ssome light foxing, so too free endpapers and the odd page throughout. This book is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good in a like jacket light spotting to rep PP 149 scarce.

paperback. Condition: Good. Madonna Staunton's copy of Dransfield's seminal collection of poems, being Dransfield's first book, and the second title in the UQP Paperback Poets series; this copy with a lengthy gift-inscription from David Rowbotham to Staunton "Signed - because Michael Dransfield can not be here - by a fellow poet David Rowbotham for Madonna Staunton, an admirer of Michael's work. Warana Writer's Weekend, Brisbane, Sept. 1973"; further flat-signed by Staunton to half-title page; prominent creases to lower gutters of first three pages, scattered foxing, o.w. G-VG throughout; wraps rubbed and with some worn spots/patches. . 77pp. 12mo. Good.

unknown_binding. Condition: Good. exlibrary hardcover book no dust jacket, usual library marks, has some light reader wear.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The second posthumous collection; edited, collected and introduced by Rodney Hall; invitation to the launch in Sydney laid in. Extremities a little dusty, else fine in dustwrapper. book.

First edition; 8vp (21 x 14.5 cm); ownership inscription in pen on front free endpaper; perfect bound with original black wrappers lettered in white, green, and blue (rubbed on extremities and spine) with an image of the author on the front; [x], 70pp. Drug Poems was the third and final poetry collection of Michael Dransfield's work published within his lifetime. As one of the most widely read writers of his generation of young poets in 60s and 70s Australia, Dransfield was enmeshed in counterculture and bohemianism, writing about marginalised people, drug use, and illness to critique the mainstream. Dransfield died young at 24 years old, a year after this poetry collection was published, likely due to health complications from taking drugs. He left behind close to a thousand poems. The blurb, with unknowing tragedy, tells us, 'If he (or any of us) has the luck to be spared he will still be writing poetry when some of his bright contemporaries are shining less brightly or writing nothing at all.'.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1970. Octavo, [xii], 78 pages. Decorated card covers ('Designed by Cyrelle') a trifle tanned and rubbed; a near-fine copy. The scarce first published collection by Australian counter-culture poet Michael Dransfield, who died in 1973 aged 24. Paperback Poets 2.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is the first publication of Michael Dransfield selected poems, gathered from every book in his relatively considerable output. They were chosen by poet and critic John Kinsella, whose lively introduction positions this indelible Australian poet at an international level. Always controversial, poet Michael Dransfield's life story has tended to obscure his talent and achievement. Tales of drugs, sexual ambiguity and mythical and ancestral kingdoms have become iconic in the story of Michael Dransfield. However, he was much more. Visionary, poet-ecologist, minstrel, a writer of remarkable dexterity and versatility, he published four collections in three years and another three appeared after his death at 24. While never simply a young poet of his age - the late 60s and early 70s - he was connected to the popular culture of his time and place. He intended to change the world, and believed in the power of his own voice. Linguistically innovative and ahead of his time in so many ways, he also looked back. He was undoubtedly one of the great poets writing in English in his era, whose resonances are increasingly pertinent. Dransfield links the innovations of late twentieth-century Australian poetry with that revolutionary implosion of Ern Malley." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.