HERE IS FAERY.
Illustrations and decorations by Percy Leason. Pp. 112, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 4 plates, numerous black & white pictorial head & tailpieces, decorative borders and initials; cr. 4to; qr. beige cloth with printed paper title label on spine, grey papered boards, upper board lettered & decorated in navy, the boards a trifle marked and slightly canted, edges faintly faded, tiny surface chip to top edge of lower board, the top fore-corner of same slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and creased, with several small chips and tears, longer (8 cm) closed tear to back flap fold, small piece torn from head of backstrip; early inked gift inscription on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, scattered foxing; George Robertson, Melbourne, 1915. First edition. Miller & Macartney pp. 329 & 356. *Poetry and prose about fairies in the Australian bush. The poems and two stories (The Woman of the Tribes and Come, Live with Me), are by Furnley Maurice; the other material is by R. L. Newmarch. Item #156989
Price: $300.00