ACROSS THE YEARS: The lure of early Australian Books.
Pp. [x]+148+[2](blank, last colophon), coloured frontispiece, plus 30 black & white plates, 1 full page facsimile; small cr. 4to; navy buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the boards a trifle sprung; glassine wrapper; the lower pastedown silverfished at fore-edge, a couple of faint spots of foxing; N. H. Seward Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, 1948. First edition, limited to 650 copies. *With loosely inserted related ephemera, including the original printed prospectus and order form, plus 3 autograph letters from the author to Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir: one 2 pages, the others single sheets; all dated 1948. Contributing authors include Clive Turnbull, E. E. Pescott, James Tyrrell, and R. H. Croll. Item #119643
Price: $400.00