Christopher Brennan; Two popular lectures delivered for the Australian English Association.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1939. Slender hardcover in original crimson cloth (no dust wrapper); lettered in gilt; pp. viii, 77 [78] 2 [blanks]; cream endpapers; foldout facsimile draft of an orginal Brennan poem; INSCRIBED on the half title to Jim Devaney from the author. Pencil note laid in dating the signature to Syndey, 1939.
A good copy. The spine is somewhat sunned and the covers lightly marked; vertical crease to the portraint frontis.; endpapers are tanned and a little soiled; otherwise clean throughout. Item #1403
Henry Mackenzie Green (2 May 1881 – 9 September 1962) was a journalist, librarian and literary historian born in Sydney. In 1921 he succeeded John Le Gay Brereton as librarian at the University of Sydney. His An Outline of Australian Literature was published in 1930 and Australian Literature 1900–1950 was published in 1951. His two-volume A History of Australian Literature Pure and Applied was first published by Angus & Robertson in 1961.
James Martin [Jim] Devaney (31 May 1890 – 14 August 1976) was an Australian poet, novelist, and journalist. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', he contributed between 1924 and 1943 a nature column to the Brisbane Courier (renamed The Courier-Mail after 1933).
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