AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE.
With a Foreword by Nettie Palmer. Pp. 42(including advertisement leaf at end), title page decoration; printed paper wrappers, with flaps, over card, lightly soiled, stapled; uncut; stamp giving author details on upper wrapper and page 7 of text, blind library stamp (Public Library of South Australia) on title page and their red (Country Lending Service) stamp on pages 13 and 39, with some inked amendments and red pencil marginal scoring; University of Washington Book Store, Seattle, 1929. First edition. University of Washington Chapbooks Number Twenty-nine. *Inscribed and signed by Kate Baker to 'A. G. S.' [A. G. Stevens?](dated Christmas 1929) on the blank preliminary leaf. For her lifelong promotion and support of Australian literature in general - and Joseph Furphy in particular - Kate Baker (1861-1953) was awarded an O.B.E. Clinton Hartley Grattan was an American historian, economic analyst and critic with a particular interest in twentieth century Australian history. This essay was originally published in The Bookman for August 1928. Item #163583
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