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Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 Fair Girls and Gray Horses : With Other Verses
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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Bulletin , 1898 .
      Printed by H. T. Dunn and Co
      Extent: vii,167, [1]p.p.
      Edition info: First ed. of one thousand.
      Reprinted: 1899 March 1899, 2000 copies.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: To my Friend, Hugh Gordon.
      • Consists of three parts: 'Fair Girls', 'Gray Horses' and 'Other Verses'.
      • Percival Serle's Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse (1925) notes that there are three illustrations by George W. Lambert.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Bulletin , 1899 .
      Printed by William McLeod
      Extent: 210, [1]p.p.
      Reprinted: 1905 Serle (1925): 150 observes 'The date of Copyright on the reverse of the title-page of this edition (1889) is a misprint.'
      Note/s:
      • This November 1899 edition has twenty-five additional poems compared to the first edition of 1898. Six are in the section 'Fair Girls'; six in 'Gray Horses' and thirteen in 'Other Verses'.
      • Includes The Bulletin Newspaper Company Limited. 'Publications and Announcements.30 November, 1899.'
      • Dedication: To Hugh Gordon. For sake of the meet and the muster, The hunts on the oak-scrub and plain: For sake of the old days, whose lustre May never shine round us again: In mind of the head-rope and halter, The mount in the dawn and the dew, I lay my poor gift on the altar Of friendship, and pledge it to You! W.H.O.
      • Index to First Lines, pp.207-210, [1]p.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Bulletin , 1901 .
      Extent: 210, [1]p.p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Index to First Lines, pp.207-210, [1]p.
      • Includes The Bulletin Newspaper Company, Limited. 'Publications and Announcements. 1st January 1901.' ix-xviii.
      • Reprint of the November 1899 edition.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1906 .
      Printed by Websdale, Shoosmith & Co.
      Extent: 265, [1]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., port.
      Reprinted: 1913 Includes 'Catalogue of Books Published by Angus & Robertson Limited Publishers To The University 89 Castlereagh Street, Sydney'. , 1914
      Note/s:
      • The index now lists all poems without the three headings although they are included in the main part of the volume.
      • Includes 'Selected List of Books Published by Angus & Robertson'.November 1906.31p.[1]p.
      • On 25 September 1906 the copyright of Fair Girls and Gray Horses was sold to Angus and Robertson for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds by The Bulletin Newspaper Company. Ogilvie was in Scotland and objected to a lack of consultation about the sale and the failure to pay him fifty percent of the proceeds. 'Author and Publisher The Interesting Case of W.H.Ogilvie and The Bulletin Company'. The Bookfellow 4 April 1907: 6.by A.G.S. (Alfred George Stephens).
      • Author's note: Of the following verses, 'Life has wreaths of each hue', 'Gold Tresses', 'The Old Boat', 'The World Beyond', 'Ballade of Windy Nights', and 'To the Overlanders' are first printed in this volume.'
      • Miller's Australian Literature From Its Beginnings To 1935 (1940) asserts the 1906 edition was part of the Commonwealth Series. There is no indication on the work.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Simpkin, Marshall ,       1907 .
      Reprinted: 1913 Miller notes published by Milford.
      Note/s:
      • Listed in Miller's Australian Literature From its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 281. Assumed to be a reprint of the 1906 edition but not sighted for confirmation.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1958 .
      Extent: xviii, 165p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Introduction by Douglas Stewart (q.v.) xi-xviii. 'However that may be, there can be no question of the permanent Australian interest of Fair Girls and Gray Horses, both for its historical value as an outstanding specimen of the bush-ballad period and for its own intriinsic qualities of song and balladry...Ogilvie who stands just a little slighter than Paterson and Lawson in the leading triumvirate of Australian balladists, has a distinctive and original voice through and beyond all influences.' xi, xiv.
      • This is not a complete edition of either the first edition (1898) of 71 poems or the second edition (1899) of 96 poems. There are 71 poems in this volume; it both adds to and deletes poems from the first edition.
      • 'First published 1898'. Publisher's note.
      ISBN: 0909950601
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