The Kiss of Dolly Day and Other Cynical Rhymes for Recitation Including 'The Billiard Marker's Yarn"
Melbourne: E. W. Cole, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [134, xvii] : red cloth with black lettering, illustrations and advertisements. Illustrations by Phil May, R. D. Soutar, George Lambert, Alek Sass, B. E. Minns and G. Rossi Ashton. Tears to a few pages with no loss of text; small water stain to top board at leading edge. Miller/Macartney, p176. Near Fine. Item #11480
Collection of light verse written with "delicate humour". According to a contemporary review in the Bulletin (August 15, 1912) the kiss of Dolly Day was indeed worth writing about.
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