All that swagger

A$150 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Sydney : The Bulletin, 1937. Third Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine (fine and bright no rubbing or sun-fading); front free-endpaper with early ownership stamp and signature crossed out, pp. 500, [2 press reviews]; spotting to edges, moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, else clean throughout; a very good copy, without the publisher s dust jacket. 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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