Centenary Gift Book

Frances Fraser; Nettie Palmer
Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1934.
Limited Edition.

26cm x 19cm. 166 pages, illustrations, some colour, 18 plates. Two tone blue cloth, gilt lettering.

Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Lady Huntingfield, of which 190 copies are for sale, and this being number 127. “Profits from the sale of this book will be devoted to the Fund for the Memorial to the Pioneer Women.” (from title page) The contents of the book: stories, poems and general articles are all written by women including Mary Grant Bruce, Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, Henry Handel Richardson, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Edna Walling. The illustrators include Ellis Rowan, Ola Cohn, J. C. A. Traill, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Ide Rentoul Outhwaite and E. Hilda Rix Nicholas.

Soiling and discolouration to cloth, crown and tail of spine lightly pushed, fore-edge corners worn. Foxing to edges and endpapers, minor foxing to textblock. Previous owners’ names crossed through. Good Condition.

SOLD