The Spirit of the Bush Fire and Other Australian Fairy Tales

by J.M. Whitfeld

First Edition

Price: AUD $195.00 ($ 178.41)
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Angus & Robertson, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: George Lambert. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is loose but fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Edges foxed and browned. Inscription of fly-leaf in neatly-written ink reads: "Phyllis Ford, with heartiest good wishes, Christmas 1907, Albilson [?] Ashfield" underneath which is inscribed a short poem or homily: "Sow and act, reap a habit/Sow a habit, reap a character/Sow a character, reap a destiny". Flyleaf is working loose a little, front and back covers are rubbed and bumped somewhat, especially at bottom corners and base of spine. Gold block lettering is in sound condition on front cover, but worn on the spine (all still legible). Illustrator: George Lambert. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare Australian Childrens Classics Inventory No: 9341. .

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