RUTH DALLAS

Collected Poems

University of Otago Press 1987 Paperback, 192pp. "This work is a compilation by one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets. Dallas was born in 1919 in Invercargill. Her concerns include the landscape and its effects on people, and Chinese and Buddhist thought. It includes the previously published 'Country Road' (1953), 'Day Book' (1966), 'Shadow Show' (1968), 'Walking on the Snow' (1976), 'Steps of the Sun' (1979) and 15 recent poems. ex lib", (ISBN: 9780908569380). Fair.

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Book number: 403187

Catalogue: General

Keywords: "NZ, Non-Fiction, Poetry"9780908569380 9780908569380

DALLAS, RUTH

Country Road and Other Poems 1947-52

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Moderate foxing to dust wrapper. 1 3/4" tear to dust wrapper spine. Some spotting to page edges. Off-setting to endpapers. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; The author's first book. 44 pages. "The circle will remain, of mountain, hill / And curving sea that once enclosed the world, / And winds that smell and taste of the sea and shake / The needles from the pines with the sea's anger, / And great skies, and rivers blue as veins." from The World's Centre. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 5363

Keywords: New Zealand Poetry

DALLAS, RUTH

Country Road and Other Poems 1947-52

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Spotting to page edges. Some bumping to ends of spine. Some spotting to dust wrapper. 1/4" x 3/8" chip missing to dust wrapper at tail of spine. 3/8" tear to dust wrapper at head of front panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; The author's first book. 44 pages. Brown papered boards. Page dimensions: 210mm x 134mm. "The circle will remain, of mountain, hill / And curving sea that once enclosed the world, / And winds that smell and taste of the sea and shake / The needles from the pines with the sea's anger, / And great skies, and rivers blue as veins." from The World's Centre. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 7138

Keywords: New Zealand Poetry

DALLAS, RUTH

Country Road and Other Poems 1947-52

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Moderate foxing to dust wrapper. 1/8" x 1/4" chip to top of dust wrapper at rear. 1/4" tears to bottom folds of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; The author's first book. 44 pages. "The circle will remain, of mountain, hill / And curving sea that once enclosed the world, / And winds that smell and taste of the sea and shake / The needles from the pines with the sea's anger, / And great skies, and rivers blue as veins." from The World's Centre. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 5671

Keywords: New Zealand Poetry

DALLAS, RUTH

Country Road and Other Poems 1947-52

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings, including call number on front board and labels partly removed from the rear endpaper. ; The author's first book.; ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 44, [3]. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 4119

Keywords: New Zealand Poetry

DALLAS, RUTH

Curved Horizon an Autobiography

Dunedin, New Zealand, University of Otago Press. 1991, First Printing. (ISBN: 0-908569-54-8). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (10)181pp. Photo plates. Fine/No Dust Jacket.

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Book number: 9985

Keywords: AUTHORS NEW ZEALAND LITERARY CRITICISM AUSTRALIAN OCEANIAN 0908569548

DALLAS, RUTH

Day Book

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. 46 pages. Light blue boards with red lettering on spine. No signatures. Moderate adhesive tape stains to dust wrapper. Some adhesive tape stains to endpapers and boards. 1/4" chip and a couple of 1/8" chips at corners of dust wrapper. 1/8" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. Edges of dust wrapper rubbed. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. The author's third collection of poetry. ; 8vo. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 003900

Keywords: New Zealand Literature Poetry Womens

DALLAS, RUTH

Day Book Poems of a Year

Christchurch, The Caxton Press. 1966, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo. pp. [10] 46.Aging toning to spine of dust jacket unprice clipped. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 080673

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Poems

DALLAS, RUTH

Holiday Time in the Bush

Methuen, 1983. 1st Thus. Hebley, Gareth. Ex-library. Green covers, silver lettering. Label removed from prelims. VG in other respects. Good.

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Book number: 78649

Catalogue: Young Children

Keywords: New Zealand Historical

DALLAS, RUTH

Holiday Time in the Bush

London Auckland, Methuen Children's Books. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0456030506) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ Tall. Ill.: Gary Hebley. pp86. Pale sparse fox to foredge, unclipped jacket has some fox on reverse side. Otherwise all excellent. A 'read-aloud' book. Illustrated with line drawings. The author's fourth book of stories about the Bush children. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 1004415

Catalogue: Childrens

Keywords: Fiction, Children's, Childrens, Juvenile, Reading Aloud 0456030506 Gary Hebley

DALLAS, RUTH

Holiday Time in the Bush

Methuen, 1983. 1st. Hebley, Gareth. Green boards with silver lettering on spine. New Zealand setting. Fourth in series. Very Good.

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Book number: 47912

Catalogue: Young Children

Keywords: Historical

DALLAS, RUTH

The House on the Cliffs

Magnet, 1981. 1st Thus. Paperback. Rowe, Gavin. Paperback. Very Good.

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Book number: 84039

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: New Zealand

DALLAS, RUTH

The House on the Cliffs

Methuen, 1977. Rowe, Gavin. Ex-library. Covers, gilt lettering on spine. Label removed from front endpaper. A Pied Piper Book. Very Good.

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Book number: 78989

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: New Zealand

DALLAS, RUTH

Ragamuffin Scarecrow

Dunedin, University of Otago, 1969, 1st Edition. 21 pages, 210x270mm (oblong). Woodcuts by Els Noordhof. No. 348 of 750 copies. Endpapers discoloured caused by dustjacket flap. Discolouration on back endpaper shows through onto the last page of text. Text still very easy to read. Some light internal foxing on some page edges. Fair dustjacket, taped at spine.

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Book number: 3209

Catalogue: Childrens - New Zealand

DALLAS, RUTH

Ragamuffin Scarecrow

Dunedin: The Bibliography Room, University of Otago, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated by Noordhof, Els. No signatures. Staples rusting. Moderate rubbing and fading to wrappers. Slight soiling and dust stains to wrappers. Internally clean. 1/8" chips at head and tail of spine of wrapper. 3/8" tear and a couple of 1/4" tears in edges of wrapper. ; White stapled card covers with printed orange wrapper. A children's story. Woodcut illlustrations. Dimensions: Oblong 11" by 8 1/4". An unnumbered copy of an edition of 750 copies.; 4to. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 4451

DALLAS, RUTH

Shadow Show

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. 54 pages. Green boards with red lettering on spine. Owner's signature and address. Minor abrasions to front free endpaper where previous owner's signature erased. 1/8" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. A couple of <1/8" chips at corners of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. The author's fourth collection of poetry. ; 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 003899

Keywords: New Zealand Literature Poetry Womens

DALLAS, RUTH

Shadow Show

Christchurch, The Caxton Press. 1968, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo. pp. [6] 54. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 084356

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Poems

DALLAS, RUTH

Shining Rivers

London, Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1979. Hardcover. Small 8vo, pp. 143. Light shelfwear; very gd in very gd dust jacket. Illustrated by Gareth Floyd. black & white illustrations.

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Book number: 013453

Catalogue: Children's

Keywords: Fiction, Children's

DALLAS, RUTH

Shining Rivers

Methuen, 1979. 1st. Floyd, Gareth. Ex-library. Black covers, silver lettering. Label removed from prelims. VG in other respects. Good.

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Book number: 78648

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: New Zealand Gold Rush

DALLAS, RUTH

Shining Rivers

Methuen, 1979. 1st. Floyd, Gareth. Ex-library. Black covers, silver lettering. Label removed from prelims. VG in other respects. Good.

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Book number: 78647

Catalogue: Post 1940

Keywords: New Zealand Gold Rush

DALLAS, RUTH, ILLUSTRATED BY GARETH FLOYD

Shining Rivers

Methuen, 1979. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. A boy in the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s tells his story.

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Book number: 001009

Catalogue: Children

Keywords: Children; Historical Gareth Floyd

DALLAS, RUTH

Song for a Guitar and Other Songs

Dunedin: University of Otago Press, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, Invercargill Public Library. Library stamps and markings. Spine and hinges taped. A rough reading copy. ; 55 pages. Yellow printed wrappers. New Zealand poet. Selected and with an introduction by Charles Brasch.; Ex-Library; 8vo. Fair with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 11480

DALLAS, RUTH

Steps Of The Sun

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0908563035. No signatures. Heavy creasing to pages. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 50 pages. Brown papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 210mm x 135mm. "Her new poems, in Steps of the Sun, show a continued interest in diversity of form, while ranging further in poetic experience. 'Jackinabox', a sequence of fifteen poems, explores the possibilities of the imagination, in strong contrast to some of the extremely condensed poems." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo. Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 8942

Keywords: 0908563035

DALLAS, RUTH

The Turning Wheel

Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1961. First Edition. Original Cloth. No signatures. Slight rubbing to ends of spine. Some rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. A couple of adhesive tape stains to reverse of dust wrapper. ; 33, (1) pages. Textured maroon cloth covers with red lettering and gold turning wheel emblem on front board. Page dimensions: 212mm x 136mm. Included loosely a typed poem entitled, "On Opening A Book Of Chinese Paintings," signed "Ruth Dallas 1963," in the top right-hand corner. Selected contents: Letter To A Chinese Poet - On Reading Your Poems; The Written Word; Clouds On The Sea; Autumn Wind; Dust; Reeds; Ananda; The Year's End; Beating The Drum; Six Songs - Song At Full Moon; Spring Day, near Arrowtown; Tombstone Song; The Gardener's Song; Felled Trees; The Turning Wheel - Headlands In Summer; Autumn Jig; Narcissus; Meditation In Winter; The Sea; Song In Spring. ; 8vo. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 8424

Keywords: New Zealand Literature Poetry Womens

DALLAS, RUTH

The Turning Wheel Poems

Christchurch, The Caxton Press. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo. pp. 33 (1), in lovely near-new condition, textured burgundy paper over boards with wheel medallion on front board, in blonde decorated dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 076371

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Ruth Dallas, New Zealand Writers