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Author Adamson, Robert, author

Title Cross the border / Robert Adamson ; etchings by Garry Shead
Edition Collector's edition
Published Sydney : Published by New Poetry for the Poetry Society of Australia, 1977
Sydney : New Poetry for the Poetry Society of Australia, 1977
©1977

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  827.03 A2215 A21/C  AVAILABLE
Description 142 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Series Prism books
Summary Poems
Analysis Australian
Poetry in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts
Notes "This first edition is limited to 1,000 copies, 900 of which have "D.H. Lawrence" by Garry Shead & Brett Whiteley on the cover and reproductions of Garry Shead's etchings. 100 copies are hardbound in Academy Canvas with [a leather spine label and a] slip case by Rienthals of Sydney. This edition contains four original etchings by Garry Shead, printed sepia on cream Arches Ingres paper at the Miller Street Print Workshop by Rose Vickers and are hand-tipped into the book. This special edition is numbered 1-100 and signed by the poet & the artist, 95 of which are for sale"--Colophon
National Library's N hbk copy is unnumbered and lacks the illustrations. ANL
National Library's SR copy is no. 20, inscribed to the Sydney bookseller Ron Abbey, dated and signed by the author and artist; and accompanied by a photomontage frontispiece by Tony Coleing, signed and numbered 20/100; also with an original prospectus. ANL
Published with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council
Also issued online
Genre/Form Poetry.
Author Shead, Garry, 1942- artist
Vickers, Rose, printer
Poetry Society of Australia, issuing body
LC no. 78309204
ISBN 0858690160 (collector's edition)
0858690179 (paperback)
0858690195
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