In Tyrrell's Bookshop single work   poetry   "Here are the clocks all conjur'd lunatic :"
First known date: 1920 Issue Details: First known date: 1920... 1920 In Tyrrell's Bookshop
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Alternative title: In an Old Book Shop
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    y separately published work icon The Triad 10 January 1920 Z645416 1920 periodical issue 1920 pg. 43
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    y separately published work icon Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney James R. Tyrrell , Sydney London : Angus and Robertson , 1952 Z99470 1952 single work autobiography The memoirs of James Tyrrell (1875-1961) - famous bookman, bookseller and owner of several bookshops in Sydney during the late 19th and early 20th centuries - include his boyhood reminiscences of Sydney and his later encounters and experiences in Sydney's cultural and literary circles. He remembers the many 'booksfellows of all sorts' that he had the privilege 'to know or to see in one of my succession of shops or at Angus and Robertson' where he began his career (p.1). Among the many literary identities, illustrators, publishers, collectors, bibliophiles, politicians and public figures he got to know through his work were numerous significant Australian writers and artists, and his book is full of delightful anecdotes and interesting insights into Sydney's cultural, literary, political and social life at the time. The books is richly illustrated with old photos, facsimiles, portraits, cartoons, and a 'Reference Plan of City Streets, Sydney, 1888', reproduced from the Illustrated Sydney News. It also includes several poems by Australian writers celebrating Tyrrell's bookshop . Sydney London : Angus and Robertson , 1952 pg. 181-182
    Note: With title: In an Old Book Shop
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    y separately published work icon Kenneth Slessor : Collected Poems Kenneth Slessor , Dennis Haskell (editor), Geoffrey Dutton (editor), Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1994 Z396988 1994 collected work poetry drama Comprehensive collection of Slessor's work from earlier selections as well as previously uncollected work, with preface, chronology and extensive textual and explanatory notes. Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1994 pg. 264-265
    Note: With title: In an Old Book Shop
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Ernest H Shea and His Sunnybrook Press Ross Edmonds , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March - June no. 377/378 2013; (p. 41-43)
A Young Man of Sydney : The Early and Uncollected Poems of Kenneth Slessor Douglas Stewart , 1977 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 21 no. 5 1977; (p. 52-56) A Man of Sydney : An Appreciation of Kenneth Slessor 1977; (p. 88-103)
A Young Man of Sydney : The Early and Uncollected Poems of Kenneth Slessor Douglas Stewart , 1977 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 21 no. 5 1977; (p. 52-56) A Man of Sydney : An Appreciation of Kenneth Slessor 1977; (p. 88-103)
Ernest H Shea and His Sunnybrook Press Ross Edmonds , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March - June no. 377/378 2013; (p. 41-43)
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