Australia in Palestine
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1919.
Large quarto, xiv, 154, [4] (publisher's advertisements) pages with numerous illustrations, over 30 pages of plates (containing over 60 plates, some 50 from photographs), and 4 double-page maps (3 of them two-colour) plus a large folding plan of three battlefields, 17 pages of colour plates (containing 20 colour plates in all, with 6 watercolours by George Lambert and 6 colour photographs by Frank Hurley) and colour-pictorial endpapers. A small printed label 'Jerusalem' has been pasted over 'Damascus' on the plate at the foot of page 46.
Flush-cut quarter cloth and two-colour pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed and marked; corners a little bumped (with associated slight creasing to some leaves); spine a little creased and sunned, with the head and foot a little worn; endpapers and early leaves lightly foxed, with sporadic light foxing; overall a very good copy.
David Barker was the art editor, and he contributed many illustrations, including those on the front cover and endpapers. He has also contributed to bibliographers' nightmares if he had anything to do with the index to the illustrations. '"Australia in Palestine" is in no sense intended as a complete picture of the Australians' part in the Great Campaign. It is merely a Soldiers' Book, produced almost entirely by soldiers in the field under active service conditions to send to their friends in Australia and abroad. An edition has also been published for sale to the general public' (Editor's Note). Dornbusch [say 242A: it appears without a number between 242 and 243]; Fielding and O'Neill, page 247.
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