The Jervis Bay and other Poems by Thwaites, Michael - 1945

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. NF/NONE. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 64 p. .

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. 58 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Hardcover. Good. Minor/moderate wear to edges of cover. Binding tight, pages clean but age toned. Pictures available upon request.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. According to the publisher, a major achievement in poetry, by the multiple award-winning poet in the U.S. Army. An epic poem. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond being a bit sunned and with one short closed tear, protected by a plastic coat. 64 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Putnam & Co, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. Reprinted. 58 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper and dedication to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Dustjacket price clipped, has small tears/chips, edge wear, creases, scratches, rubbed corners/spine, slightly soiled. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. Age browning inside covers. No writing..

Putnam & Company Ltd, 1943. Fair. The wraps are tanned and the back shows damp damaged. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front end page. The pages are slightly darkened and age related marks are visible throughout. Tightly bound and complete with 58 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London, Putnam & Company Ltd, . Reprint; 8vo; pp. vii, 59; stiff illustrated wrapper, small square piece cut out of inside bottom of fly, good copy. n.d.

London, Putnum & Company Ltd. reprinted 1943.. 58pp. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Faint offsetting to ffe and rfe. A very good copy.

London: Putnam & Company, 1943. 1st English ed. Paperback. Fair. vii, [1], 58, [1]p. Pictorial wrapper. 22cm. Cover a bit shabby and lacking the bottom inch of the backstrip. INSCRIBED (at Christmas 1943 on board the H.M.S. Guillemot to "Leonard" by "Michael"). Five-page holograph letter (on three sheets of note-sized paper) to "L" laid in. The recipient was Leonard M. Thompson, the prominent Yale professor who wrote widely on Southern Africa. Thwaites was an Australian Poet and an Intelligence Officer.