HENRY LAWSON FAVOURITE VERSE Tapa dura - 1978

London: Thomas Nelson, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition and printing. Poems chosen By Nancy Keesing. In near fine orange cloth boards, white titles to back strip. The covers are firm, square and unmarked; slight wear to spine ends. White end papers, not tanned and without marks; dedication on front free end paper. Quite clean cut edges. The text block is tightly bound and with clean pages - near fine condition .Illustrated in b/w by Walter Stackpool. In very good orange topped dust jacket with colour illustration beneath. The jacket is clean; spine slightly sunned; top edge a little worn.

Nelson, West Melbourne, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Walter Stackpool. 450 g; X, 182 pages, index of titles, illustrated with part, and full-page black-and-white drawings, and in original hardcover binding with white writing on the spine, and colour illustrated dust jacket using a detail from a painting by Sir Russell Drysdale. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed on the top edge, otherwise the book has no faults. This new selection, with a preface by the editor is, without having included some of the oversentimental examples of the 1914-18 war period representative of Henry Lawson's works. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Walter Stackpool. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0170052079. ISBN/EAN: 9780170052078. Inventory No: 0224456. . 9780170052078

West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1978. (First Edition). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Stackpool, Walter. 182p. Slight wear to cover edges. B&w illustrations. (8-3/4"x5-5/8")

Melbourne: Thomas Nelson [Australia] Ltd. 1978. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine a little sunned. Black & white illustrations by Walter Stackpool. Dustjacket illustration by Russell Drysdale. 182 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.