Australia & New Zealand.- Eldershaw (M. Barnard) The Life and Times of Captain John Piper, one of 350 copies signed by the authors, Sydney, 1939; and 5 others similar (6)

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Australia & New Zealand.- Eldershaw (M. Barnard) The Life and Times of Captain John Piper, one of 350 copies signed by the authors, half-title, illustrations, original maroon calf, spine browned, uncut, Sydney, Australian Limited Editions Society, 1939 Alexander (Sir James Edward) Incidents of the Maori War, tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved map, manuscript prize bookplate to front pastedown, ink stamp to rear pastedown, a few marks, cracking at gutter and upper hinge, original boards, spine dulled, some wear to lower joint, g.e., 1863, upper covers gilt, scattered light spotting, spines gilt, rubbed and bumped; and 4 others similar, 8vo (6) *** The first mentioned contains signatures of Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987) and Flora S. Eldershaw (1897–1956), the Australian literary collaborators who wrote jointly under the pseudonym M. Barnard Eldershaw. Active from the 1920s to the 1940s, the partnership produced a significant body of work including histories, novels, plays, essays, lectures and short stories.

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