Marsupials of Australia. Volume 1: Possums, the Koala and Wombats. Volume 2: Carnivorous Marsupials and Bandicoots. Volume 3: Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos
Melbourne [and] Sydney, Lansdowne Editions (Volumes 1 and 2) and Mallon (Volume 3), 1980, 1987 and 2005.
Folio (515 × 375 mm), three volumes, 202 pages with 28 full-page colour plates; 292 pages with 55 full-page colour plates; and 273 pages with 51 full-page colour plates.
Cloth with a large blind-pictorial leather panel mounted on each front cover and a leather title-label on each spine; edges very slightly foxed; cloth of Volume 2 slightly foxed, with light pale residue to the spine; overall an excellent set, still in the original packaging.
Meredith Smith is the author of the first volume; Smith and Aslin are the authors of the second, and Calaby and Flannery of the third. All volumes carry the number 267 of a limited edition signed by the author(s) and illustrator (Volumes 1 and 2 limited to 1000 copies; Volume 3 limited to 650 copies, signed by Tim Flannery and Rosemary Woodford Ganf only, John Calaby having died in 1998). [3 items].
Item #123722
Price (AUD):
$1,500.00