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Moonshine.
[MAGUIRE]. BLISS, M. M. L.
# 2060
Berry [NSW]: PressPress, 2002. Small octavo, grey wrappers with
green paper dustwrapper, reproducing the etching ‘Quiver’ by Jennifer
Maguire, 27pp. of poetry. The deluxe edition, limited to 30 copies, with
an original copy of the etching reproduced on the front wrapper, titled,
editioned and signed by the artist. The etching is limited to only 30
copies and was produced for this book.
$ 350
The Darkening Ecliptic
by Ern Malley.
[McAULEY, James and
STEWART, Harold]. “MALLEY, Ern”.
# 2194
Melbourne and Adelaide: Reed and Harris, 1944. Small quarto, 46
pages, in original wrappers illustrated by Sidney Nolan of ‘The Arabian
Tree’ from the ‘Malley’ poem Petit Testament, further reproduced as
a black and white frontispiece, pale waterstain affecting lower corner.
The first edition variant in illustrated wrappers, a plain lettered
version also produced the same year. The seperately issued volume
of the famous hoaxers’ poetry, which was also reproduced in ‘Angry
Penguins’ the same year, before the hoax was revealed. It is estimated
400 copies with the colour wrappers were produced and intended
for the overseas market (COWLEY, Des, A checklist of Reed & Harris
Publications, in The La Trobe Journal No 64, Spring 1999, p. 50).
$ 550