Author: Edith Humphris; Douglas Sladen
Title: Adam Lindsay Gordon and His Friends in England and Australia
Description: London, Constable & Company LTD, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A biography on the British-Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, with various illustrated plates. First edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen illustrated plates by Adam Lindsay Gordon, and numerous other illustrations. This is a biographical work on the British-Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, detailing his life as well as his poetic endeavours. Gordon was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and helped shape a national school of Australian poetry. Contents include chapters such as 'Famous Sayings of Gordon Which Are Proverbs and Household Words in Australia', 'A Talk With Gordon's Widow', 'Gordon in the Cotswolds', and 'Gordon as a Poet&apos. Written by Edith Humphris and Douglas Sladen, the latter of which was an English author and academic. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Gilt illustration on boards and spine remains bright with little fading. A few marks on boards, with a bit of bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Endpapers are a bit age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very clean throughout, with very light age-toning to margins. Pages ix- xvi are unopened at the fore edge. Plates are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine .
Keywords: Adam Lindsay Gordon and His Friends in England and Australia biography Australian poetry Edith Humphris biography Various
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Title: Adam Lindsay Gordon and His Friends in England and Australia
Description: London, Constable & Company LTD, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A biography on the British-Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, with various illustrated plates. First edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen illustrated plates by Adam Lindsay Gordon, and numerous other illustrations. This is a biographical work on the British-Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, detailing his life as well as his poetic endeavours. Gordon was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and helped shape a national school of Australian poetry. Contents include chapters such as 'Famous Sayings of Gordon Which Are Proverbs and Household Words in Australia', 'A Talk With Gordon's Widow', 'Gordon in the Cotswolds', and 'Gordon as a Poet&apos. Written by Edith Humphris and Douglas Sladen, the latter of which was an English author and academic. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Gilt illustration on boards and spine remains bright with little fading. A few marks on boards, with a bit of bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Endpapers are a bit age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very clean throughout, with very light age-toning to margins. Pages ix- xvi are unopened at the fore edge. Plates are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine .
Keywords: Adam Lindsay Gordon and His Friends in England and Australia biography Australian poetry Edith Humphris biography Various
Price: GBP 55.00 = appr. US$ 78.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 807D24
- Book number: 807D24
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