The Darkening Ecliptic
by MALLEY, Ern (poems) ; NOLAN, Sidney (paintings) ; MELVILLE, Robert (preface) ; LYNN, Elwyn (introduction)
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About This Item
Adelaide: R. Alistair McAlpine, 1974. First Edition. Fine/near fine. Hardcover : pp. [1] 56 : illustrated throughout in colour : light brown boards : illustrated jacket
Relevant newspaper clippings loosely inserted; faint rub marks to jacket back. The Ern Malley literary hoax perpetrated on Angry Penguins editor Max Harris by poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart is now the stuff of Australian literary legend. The hoax revisited (and reprinted) in this 2017 edition with its introduction by Albert Tucker and recollection by Max Harris.
Relevant newspaper clippings loosely inserted; faint rub marks to jacket back. The Ern Malley literary hoax perpetrated on Angry Penguins editor Max Harris by poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart is now the stuff of Australian literary legend. The hoax revisited (and reprinted) in this 2017 edition with its introduction by Albert Tucker and recollection by Max Harris.
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- Bookseller
- Archives Fine Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4427
- Title
- The Darkening Ecliptic
- Author
- MALLEY, Ern (poems) ; NOLAN, Sidney (paintings) ; MELVILLE, Robert (preface) ; LYNN, Elwyn (introduction)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- R. Alistair McAlpine
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Poetry; modernism; literary hoaxes
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