The Adam Lindsay Gordon Memorial Volume
Melbourne and Sydney: The Lothian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1926. Christian Yandell, Napier Waller, Will Ashton, Vincent Cobb. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : 29 cm. lvi, 234 p., [18] leaves of plates, mostly coloured, frontispiece portrait, printed tissue guards, black and white textual illustrations, title page printed in red and black : original blue cloth with gilt lettering : top edge gilt.
Light bumping to spine ends, some minor flecking mainly on the upper board; number 776 of 100 copies, signed by the President and Secretary of the Memorial Committee; bookseller label on front endpaper; bookplate of Alexander Hepburn Stone (Bendigo author and book collector) on the front endpaper and his signature on the front free endpaper. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #12466
Tipped in colour plates by Hans Heysen, Will Ashton, Vincent Cobb, Penleigh Boyd, Christian Yandell, Napier Waller and other leading artists. A lovely copy of this very handsome publication that includes poetry from Gordon's 'Sea Spray and Smoke Drift' 'Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes' and a selection of miscellaneous poems. Includes a lengthy biographical sketch by the Editor.
Price: $120.00