Gum Leaves by Ethel Turner. With Oddments by Others. Pictures by D.H. Souter
Sydney, William Brooks, [1900].
Tall octavo, 221, [3] (last one the colophon), [8] (publisher's advertisements) pages with 27 full-page plates and 'Seventy Illustrations in the text' (all by Souter).
Quarter light blue cloth (possibly lightly varnished) and colour pictorial papered boards a little marked and lightly worn at the extremities (more heavily so at the corners); cloth discoloured and lightly cracked near the head and along the rear joint; edges discoloured, with the top edge a little scored; endpapers foxed; flyleaves offset; front inner hinge cracked but firm; occasional signs of use and age; overall a decent copy (internally crisp and bright).
Mounted on the front pastedown is a small piece of paper (75 × 133 mm) inscribed 'Greetings from "Ethel Turner" (Ethel S Curlewis)'. Beneath this, she has written a stanza by English poet Richard Leigh (1650-1728): 'Anyone can make a song / If the song is in them. / Things are lying all about / Wanting us to sing them'. Muir 7543 and 7544 (the latter being this edition, with variant text - 'mock reports from the South African War' - on pages 67, 68, 115, 116, 162 and 221 [misquoted as 220 in Muir]). Both versions are listed as having only 221 pages plus 8 pages of advertisements.
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