john shaw neilson life de helen hewson (9 résultats)

Hardback. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 503 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. xxiii, 503 pages, illustrated. Editor's signature. Plastic wrapper. Signed "Helen Hewson".

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with light wear at the edges and corners, spine is strong with minimal bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. Dust Jacket: intact with only light scuffing on surface and along edges, no tears or tape repairs, has been neatly covered & protected in mylar by previous owner. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing more than 1 kg, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be more than what is shown here. Please email me for an exact quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. ""John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is one of Australia's finest and best-loved lyric poets. This comprehensive selection of letters to, from and about him fills a long-felt need, providing a vivid personal and social history. "The selection begins in 1906 when A. G. Stephens began The Bookfellow. From this crucial point, and during the next thirty-five years, we follow Neilson the man: farming and working in the bush, keeping in touch with his scattered family, and finay moving in 1928 to Melbourne and a job as an interdepartmental messenger with the Country Roads Board in Carlton. "Helen Hewson has chosen and edited her material from more than a thousand existing letters, most of which have not been published previously. They cover family, social and publishing correspondence, in addition to the detailed letters about writing poetry which passed between Neilson and his three very different editorial advisers, A. G. Stephens, Robert H. Croll and James Devaney, his first biographer. "Other writers of the period who corresponded with Neilson included Robert Bridges, Mary Gilmore, Christopher Brennan, and Vance and Nettic Paimer, and the letters are full of revealing details about his association with many contemporary institutions and personalities. "John Shaw Neilson: A Life in Letters establishes a social background and a literary context which ends any suggestion that Neilson is merely a 'bush poet' or 'a simple singer'. This complex poet participated in an intricate network of literary relationships and literary production, and it is only through reading the letters that one realises the degree to which he reflected on his own and other people's poetry and writing." (Front flap).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. A LIFE IN LETTERS. THE BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF AUSTRALIAS FINEST AND BEST LOVED POETS. None.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine, no issues. B&W photographs.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Unread condition.

Hardcover/Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. Extracts from his papers wrapped around correspondence, incoming and outgoing, beginning 7 December 1906 from A.G. Stephens and ending, 485 letters later, from James Devaney to Victor Kennedy, 11 May 1942, 'John Shaw Neilson is sick mentally as well as physically. I wish I could get more definite news of him'; chronology, biographies of correspondents, bibliography, index; 500+pp. Fine in dustwrapper. book.

xxiv+504pp. large 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. B/w plates. A fine copy. First edition.