Item #136019 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN JOHN PIPER. M. Barnard Eldershaw, Pseudonym.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN JOHN PIPER.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN JOHN PIPER.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CAPTAIN JOHN PIPER.

Illustrated by Adrian Feint. Pp. xvi+202(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), coloured title page vignette, and 3 full page illustrations, plus several black & white text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, bibliography; tall cr. 4to; full maroon calf over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; uncut; patterned dust wrapper, with small publisher's device in maroon near bottom fore-corner of front panel, edges lightly chipped and split; within maroon card slipcase with printed paper title label on spine, edges lightly worn; a couple of the coloured illustrations faintly offset; Australian Limited Editions Society, Sydney, 1939. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the authors. Farmer page 30. *M. Barnard Eldershaw was a pseudonym used by Marjorie Barnard & Flora Eldershaw. The third book written and produced for the Australian Limited Editions Society. Set in Baskerville type by Edward Rogan and Ronald Harris, with presswork by William Cooper and binding by Albert Waite. With a loosely inserted review of the book (slightly torn) from an unidentified magazine. Item #136019

Price: $600.00