The Getting of Wisdom
Henry Handel RichardsonNew York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.
Revised Edition.
19.5cm x 13cm. [viii], 275 pages. Green cloth, illustrated jacket.
First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck.
Near Fine Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. Very slightly cocked. Jacket spine tanned, and with small chips and tears to edges. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$500.00
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