All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)

A$1,100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed

Sydney : The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine, in the publisher s orange dust jacket with black type (fine and bright); front free-endpaper with early ownership signature, title page signed in black ink by the author Miles Franklin , pp. 500; spotting to edges, moderate foxing to preliminaries and first and last few leaves of text, else clean throughout; a desirable signed copy of the first edition. All that swagger is based on the experience of Franklin s own forebears who emigrated from Ireland and settled in the Monaro district of New South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century. The novel was awarded the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1936.

• Binding: Hardcover

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