Lindesay Vane Jacket Design (3 results)

hardbound. Condition: Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper. Early collection of poems by Bruce Dawe; former owner's name to front endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, o.w. Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, with one or two short closed tears, light scratch marks to front panel, o.w. G-VG. Dustwrapper. 56pp. 8vo. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper. Vane Lindesay jacket design (illustrator). …

1st ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), reverse side jacket & top edge flaps minimally foxed (flap not clipped), vertical faint crease front & rear free flyleaves, edges little foxed, minor edgewear, non-author written name. 271 pp. First edition. An autobiographical account of the first 24 years of the life of Xavier Herbert, the controversial Australian novelist. He recounts his birth on the northwest coast of Western Australia, the son of a prospector turned horse-breaker turned railway engine driver, and his unlikely career as a pharmaceutical chemist, and conversion to Catholicism.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First in this edition, 237 pp., bound with pictorial dust jacket. Age toning, light edge wear jacket. Very good copy with graphics and photo's. 22 x 14 cm.