Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and the Ballads

Angus and Robertson Publishers, Sydney, 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Percy Lindsay. potted biography of Percy Lindsay. Illustrated endpapers, being the publishing house's initials repeated many times over in dark and light green. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white illustrations by Percy Lindsay. Illustrated front cover, again by Percy Lindsay, with dark green titles to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, again by Percy Lindsay, with dark green titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. An anthology of Australian bush literature and poetry from the first half of the 20th century and last half of the 19th century. " In the 1920s Angus & Robertson Publishers launched an inexpensive range of books in the Platypus series, and Percy Lindsay was the happy choice of artist to design many of of the dust jackets for the series. The original watercolour illustrations were recently unearthed in an old, brown-paper parcel from the company archives. The string untied, the pictures were revealed and the office was filled with the irresistible images of those golden days of outback Australia. Here were light-hearted pictures of drovers and shearers and squatters' daughters, lively scenes of bushranging and gold-rush days and subtle landscapes of the wide brown land. This book brings them all together, Inside the covers for the first time, and along side many of the sketches, stories and poems they originally illustrated. " -- from the front fold over panel blurb. A little rubbing of the back strip edges and of the lower book edges. Some bumping to the lower book corners. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with fading of the back strip and to other side. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. VI, 98 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Percy Lindsay. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Australia; Art & Design. ISBN: 0207143021. ISBN/EAN: 9780207143021. Inventory No: 0127040. . 9780207143021