Swagger Signed by Miles Franklin (2 results)
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- Hardcover
Seller: Barclay Books, York, WA, AustraliaBarclay Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
£ 575.60
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Add to basketHARDCOVER. The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. A very good copy bound in lightly edge rubbed red cloth boards with black lettering on the spine. Light age tanning of the edges and endpapers. Foxing on the edges and prelims and with occasional light spotting in the text. No other marks. This copy has been SIGNED (…not inscribed) by the author on the title page. Complete with the original, unclipped d/w in near fine condition with only very light edge rubbing and a faint hint of sun fading of the spine. Now in a protective cover. Scans available if required.
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- First Edition
Seller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, AustraliaDouglas Stewart Fine Books
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Add to basketSydney : The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine, in the publisher's orange dust jacket with black type (fine and bright); front free-endpaper with early ownership signature, title page signed in black ink by the author Miles Franklin, pp. 500; spottin…g to edges, moderate foxing to preliminaries and first and last few leaves of text, else clean throughout; a desirable signed copy of the first edition. All that swagger is based on the experience of Franklin's own forebears who emigrated from Ireland and settled in the Monaro district of New South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century. The novel was awarded the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1936.
