The Drover’s Cook and other verses. (With an inscribed dedication by the poet)

A$450 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed · Limited edition

/ by Tom Quilty. Published to benefit the Australian Inland Mission and Royal Flying Doctor Service . Sydney : Printed and published for the author by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 1963. Third impression, with additions. Small octavo (190 mm), original gilt lettered and decorated red cloth over grey papered boards lettered in gilt (scattered stains), inscribed in blue pen by Quilty on the half-title: To Ross Macdonald, I m one of your mob, who spends a bob at the Croydon Pub. You stand by St. Kilda Football Club. From a friend of your brother Don. 14.6.64 Sincerely, Tom Quilty ; on the page facing the half-title (the first blank) is another inscription, from Don Macdonald to his brother Ross, congratulating him on his 60th birthday; pp 119, with several b/w photographic plates, including a portrait of Quilty beside which Don Macdonald has written in the margin A friend of mine for many years Tom ; top- and fore-edges with spotting, a few pages with light handling marks at margins, else internally very good. Thomas John Quilty (1887-1979) was an Australian station owner, pastoralist, philanthropist, and bush poet. To this day he still holds the record for the largest freehold land acreage in Australia s history; over 3 million acres for a single property. In total, he controlled over 4.5 million acres of land. In 1976, Tom Quilty was awarded the O.B.E. (The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his outstanding services to primary industry. Quilty was born in Normanton,

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