COPPERTOP: The queer adventures of a quaint child.
Illustrations by the author. Pp. 154(last blank), coloured frontispiece and 6 plates, 10 black & white text illustrations (some full page); brown papered boards, the spine and upper board lettered in darker brown, coloured oval pictorial onlay at centre of upper board, bottom edge and corners of boards lightly bumped; dust wrapper, the front panel with oval die-cut revealing the onlay on the board below, soiled and lightly foxed, edges worn, with several short closed tears to the front panel around the cut-out area; issued without free endpapers, bookseller's stamp at foot of preliminary blank, the last 2 plates repeated, scattered foxing; Melbourne Publishing Company, Melbourne, n.d. [1919]. First edition. Muir 2702. *Harold Gaze (1884-1963) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and spent some of his childhood in Australia, before moving with his mother to England. In 1917, he returned to Australia, settling first in Melbourne, where he was an exhibiting member of the Victorian Artists' Society. Later he moved to Sydney, then spent some time in New Zealand, before returning to London in 1922. For most of the rest of his life he lived in America. Item #114372
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