Flowing Tide, Signed (3 results)

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Wedgwood blue cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5''. Contains 39 printed pages of text. Fine condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with just a little soiling to the pale blue paper covers, not price clipped 7s 6d. SIGNED by the author to the half-title page. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

First Edition. Pp. [iv]+156; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, top edge of front panel faintly creased; Methuen, Sydney, 1981. First edition. White (Volume 2) 6953. *Inscribed and signed by the author [to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, dated 22.1.82] on the upper free endpaper: 'Signed for Albert under very happy circumstances & after a long friendship, starting with the beginning of The Little Book Room'. (Joan Phipson officially opened Albert Ullin's bookshop, The Little Bookroom, when it moved to its second location, Equitable Place, in 1963). The dust wrapper illustration is by Ron Brooks. Signed.

First edition, with typescript letters signed by the author and publisher addressed to the illustrator, Ethel "Bip" Pares, laid in, discussing the jacket design and urgency of the project. Pares was an Art Deco illustrator who designed book covers for authors such as Nancy Mitford, posters for London Transport, and maps during the Second World War. The first letter, dated 30 July 1940, is from Robert Percy Hodder-Williams (1880-1958) to Pares (1904-1977). He praises her jacket for Sea Way Only (1937) - "the unbeatable Jordan wrapper" - and asks if she might illustrate the jacket for Tide Still Flowing and, if time allows, provide five line-drawn vignettes. He stresses the need for speed - "we must not hold up production" - and describes the work as "very much a man's book, pretty strong meat, I think, and fine stuff." The second letter, dated 8 August 1940, is from Jordan (1885-1963) to Hodder-Williams, offering assistance with the design: "If Miss Pares will give me an idea as to the illustrations she has in mind I will do my best to supply her at once with some data". He also discusses making alterations to the proofs of another work, perhaps This Island Demands, published the following year: "I certainly do not want to offend anyone needlessly in these hard times. It was hard to write in war, but the result seems more or less what I intended." Jordan's letter is accompanied by a letter dated the following day from Hodder-Williams's secretary - one D. E. Fisher - to Pares, stressing "the urgency of this job. Mr Hodder-Williams is very concerned about the time problem in connection with this book." Octavo. Illustrated vignettes by Bip Pares. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine toned, ends and corners worn, pp. 65-81 browned, gauze occasionally visible; jacket unclipped, spine browned, chip to tail of spine affecting lettering: a very good copy in like jacket.