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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, AUS. 1961. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for where the poet has corrected line 7, pg 14 by inserting the word "beyond." Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; slight suntoning to spine; bumping along top edge of jacket; small closed tears to front panel top edge. Green paper over boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are clean not split. 63 pp 8vo. This book is the second collection of poems published in 1961 by the Australian poet, lecturer and opera critic Valentine Thomas Vallis (1916 - 2009). Though poetry was his chief passion, Vallis was also a renowned opera enthusiast, for many years serving as opera critic for The Bulletin, The Australian, and the British journal, Opera. This is a book of mainly nautical themed poems most of which are cast in a dark tone as the title implies. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.