Item #122612 A Book of South Australia. Women in the First Hundred Years. Collected and edited by Louise Brown, Beatrix Ch: de Crespigny, Mary P. Harris, Kathleen Kyffin Thomas [and] Phebe N. Watson. Published for the Women's Centenary Council of SA. South Australia.
A Book of South Australia. Women in the First Hundred Years. Collected and edited by Louise Brown, Beatrix Ch: de Crespigny, Mary P. Harris, Kathleen Kyffin Thomas [and] Phebe N. Watson. Published for the Women's Centenary Council of SA
A Book of South Australia. Women in the First Hundred Years. Collected and edited by Louise Brown, Beatrix Ch: de Crespigny, Mary P. Harris, Kathleen Kyffin Thomas [and] Phebe N. Watson. Published for the Women's Centenary Council of SA

A Book of South Australia. Women in the First Hundred Years. Collected and edited by Louise Brown, Beatrix Ch: de Crespigny, Mary P. Harris, Kathleen Kyffin Thomas [and] Phebe N. Watson. Published for the Women's Centenary Council of SA

Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1936.

Quarto, 257 pages with numerous illustrations and 6 tipped-in plates (5 in colour) plus 12 pages of plates and endpaper maps.

Quarter suede and gilt-lettered papered boards a little discoloured; a relevant newspaper clipping has discoloured one opening (the clipping has been retained but is now in acid-free tissue); marginal tear to one plate expertly repaired; an excellent copy with the Mary Harris-designed colour-pictorial dustwrapper torn and chipped, with minor loss.

Number 64 of a limited edition of only 100 copies in this deluxe binding. A veritable who's who of the female artists and writers of the day: Mary Harris, Rosa Fiveash, Nora Heysen, Dorrit Black, Marie Tuck, Gwen Barringer, Pixie Harris, Daisy Bates, Lady Mawson, Margaret McGuire, Tarella Quin Daskein.

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