Edited Tom Collins (7 results)

Cover art by Tom Cross (illustrator). Fl., Florida Atlantic University, January 1984 First Edition edited by Robert A. Collins, Contents page in the photos. 54 pages. A near fine copy with light dust soiling to the rear cover. See Photos mag 17 / E.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. The wrapper shows a little edge wear and tear. No ownership inscription and not foxed. 382 pages. First published in Australia in 1903 this is "a racy unconventional account of rough life among the Australian teamsters, sundowners and knoek-about bushmen ---." "No more living picture of station life, and of the men who drive the great herds across the up-country territories of Australia could be found.".

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stephen Fabian (illustrator). Limited/Numbered. SPECIAL LIMITED / NUMBERED ISSUE. 181/200 copies SIGNED by the editor, artist, and designer on the colophon page at rear. Gilt decorated white cloth in a pictorial dustjacket and housed in the publisher's white linen cloth covered slipcase. This is the first major collection encompassing all the facets of Lovercraft's poetry and includes over 100 poems, many published for the first time in hardcover and including some never before published. The book also includes a complete index of titles and first lines. Some spotting to the verso of the dust jacket, text edges, more pronounced spotting on the cloth covered slipcase. Signed.

Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Contributions by Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Carl Jacobi (on August Derleth), E. Hoffmann Price (on H. P. Lovecraft), letters from Robert E. Howard to August Derleth, and others. A fine copy. (#160691).

Cloth Backed Boards. Collected and Edited by K.B. (Kate Barker) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo, pp. 56, b/w frontis port., b/w plate, prev. owner's inscr., edges uncut, light foxing prelims and early leaves, orig cl backed bds., edges rubbed. Joseph Furphy (pseudonmym of Tom Collins who wrote "Such is Life").

Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, stapled as issued. 600 copies printed. The "August Derleth Memorial Issue." Contributions by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Joseph Payne Brennan, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Fritz Leiber, Frank Belknap Long, Roderic Meng, Larry Niven, Emil Petaja, E. Hoffmann Price, and others. Staples removed, a very good copy. Important content for the Derleth biographer. (#160689).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Floridly SIGNED & INSCRIBED by editor Kate Baker to Archbishop Mannix in black ink on ffep: "To His Grace The Rt. Rev. D. Mannix with every good wish, Kate Baker, Xmas 1917". Presentation copy in belletristic script. Uncommon book of poetry by Joseph Furphy (pseudonym Tom Collins, author of Such is Life). Collected & edited by Kate Baker. Preface by Bernard O'Dowd. Illustrated with two b&w plates, as issued (frontispiece of Joseph Furphy, & a portrait of the author's mother). "Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) is widely regarded as the 'Father of the Australian novel'. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins, and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic. He was encouraged in his writing by Kate Baker (1861-1953), a schoolteacher who boarded with his mother. Kate Baker's belief in his ability had helped to sustain Furphy during the long labour of writing Such is Life, eventually published in 1903. The novel had made little impact on the public, and at the time of his death he was little known: Kate resolved to gain proper recognition for him. Her long life was devoted to the memory of Furphy, whose death in 1912 affected her deeply. Dependent upon her small pension, she lived frugally. In 1916 she edited and published at her own expense The Poems of Joseph Furphy." The recipient of Kate Baker's inscription, Archbishop Daniel Mannix (1864-1963), was "an Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop. Mannix was the Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years and one of the most influential public figures in 20th-century Australia. Mannix's legacy to the Roman Catholic Church in Australia is substantial. A number of facilities are named in his honour". First Edition, December 1916, stated. Printed in Australia by The Specialty Press, Melbourne. Bound in publisher's original plain drab boards with black lettering within border to front board, cream cloth-backed spine with small printed paper title label. Slight handling wear, mild spotting to spine, paper label chipped (only half remaining), light sporadic foxing to fore-edge, both plates with small neat handwritten ink notation (Obit. date), otherwise overall a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 56pp. Scarce volume of poetry by the 'Father of the Australian novel', inscribed by the editor & champion of Furphy's Such is Life, to Archbishop Mannix, one of the 'most influential public figures in 20th-century Australia'. An important copy. UNIQUE & RARE. Signed by Author(s).