Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles - 1947

Sydney: The Shepherd Press. 1947. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. DJ spine a little sunned & jacket has some edgewear with some small loss and is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Minor damage to base of pages 181-202. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. Has forty-six black & white illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Tipped in frontispiece. Illustration to prelims also tipped in. A scarce title in dustjacket. Foreword by Norman Lindsay. Newspaper clippings loosely inserted at rear. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 520 pages. This edition does not have the postscript that Dickens tacked on to the end of "Great Expectations". Norman Lindsay notes "that it has no relation to the novel's theme, and was written after the work was finished, because Bulwer Lytton implored Dickens to give the story a conventional happy ending." . 1st thus. Hardback.