The Book Of Australian Popular Rhymed Verse

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Abc
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 811 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An outstanding, definitive collection of Australian rhymed verse that brings together more than a thousand ditties, bush verse, folk poems, doggerel, rhymed verse and classic poetry. Published together for the first time in a collector's gift volume, The Complete Australian Book of Popular Rhymed Verse brings together highlights of An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse and An Australian Heritage of Verse plus 300 poems Jim has unearthed in his research and travels. All the greats and favourites are included: Lawson, Patterson, C.J. Dennis and new bush poets. Readers of Australiana and lovers of nostalgia will treasure this collection that included favourites from grandparents' and parents' childhoods.

ISBN: 9780733319044