The Desert Column. Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 18 April 1932 (second impression)/ 15 April 1932.
Octavo, x (last blank), 379, [3] (publisher's advertisements) pages.
Cloth slightly marked; spine lightly tanned; endpapers offset; trifling signs of handling; contemporary ownership signature on the front flyleaf; an excellent copy.
With a foreword by General Sir Harry Chauvel, 'Late Commanding the Desert Mounted Corps'. Idriess introduces this account of his service with the 5th Light Horse Regiment with these words: it 'is more than my diary. It is myself'. Dornbusch 395; Fielding and O'Neill, page 248; Trigellis-Smith 275.
Item #114941
Price (AUD):
$650.00
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