The Magic Pudding (first edition, second issue)

A$2,750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

First edition

: being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle Sam Sawnoff . Sydney : Angus Robertson, 1918. Quarto, quarter blue cloth over papered boards (waterstain to upper and lower edges of upper board), in fine original illustrated dust jacket (a couple of light stains, very minor chipping to head and foot of spine, expert paper restoration to splits to folds verso), plain cream endpapers (lightly foxed), previous owner s name to front free endpaper, book label of James Fairfax, colour title page, 171 pp, illustrated throughout by Lindsay, waterstain across the lower and upper margins of the text block, else a clean and well presented copy of the first edition in the original dust jacket. The Magic Pudding is without doubt the most famous Australian children s book ever published, and for nearly a century has never been out of print. The iconic characters of Bunyip Bluegum, Sam Sawnoff, Bill Barnacle and of course the Pudding have delighted children and adults for nearly a century. No matter how much the reader gets out of the story, there is, as with the Pudding itself, always something left ( National Treasures from Australia s Great Libraries , Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2005, p. 130). It is well documented how the idea of the Pudding was first cooked. Lindsay s friend and editor of Art in Australia Bertram Stevens claimed fairies were the most popular characters for children s books (an Outhwaite reference), while Lindsay thought characters b

• Binding: Hardcover

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