Author: LANG, JOHN.
Title: Too Clever By Half Or The Harroways.
Description: First Australian Edition; 8vo; pp. (vi), 126; 8 full page b/w engravings; stiff stapled illustrated wrappers; Cole's book ads on wrappers; wrapper has small chips from spine top and bottom; small 2 x 4 cm section missing from top corner of both wrappers, small 1 cm section missing from front wrapper near spine; otherwise a good copy. Melbourne, E. W. Cole, circa 1854. Delightful reading and illustrations including "but just as he was coming to a crisis George began to imitate a cat" by one of the earliest Australian short story writers. Miller p. 597.

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