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A$1,650 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Sydney: the authors, 1902. Folio, decorated wrappers; 34 pp., illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Light crease and edge wear to wrappers, else a fine example. Illustrated verse, some first published in The Bulletin , while other poems are published here for the first time. Of this edition 650 copies have been printed on toned paper, numbered, price 3s. 6d.; 99 copies on larger white paper, initialed by the authors, price 5s. each, and 13 special copies, signed by the authors, price £1 1s. each . This is one of the numbered copies, number 505. Fragile and rare, printed when Lindsay was 23. This copy in especially fine condition.

• Binding: Hardcover

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