Item #127449 Creative Effort. An Essay in Affirmation. Norman LINDSAY.
Creative Effort. An Essay in Affirmation
Creative Effort. An Essay in Affirmation
Creative Effort. An Essay in Affirmation

Creative Effort. An Essay in Affirmation

Sydney, Published for the Author by 'Art in Australia', 1920.

Octavo, [vi], 294 pages plus a tipped-in errata slip and a tipped-in original etching (paper size 182 × 106 mm, signed and numbered - '39' - in pencil by Norman Lindsay).

Quarter white cloth (lettered in gilt on the spine) and plain papered boards, bottom edge uncut; front board very lightly marked; top edge lightly foxed; front inner hinge lightly stabilised; a near-fine copy.

One of 120 copies (of which only 100 were for sale), with an original signed etching by Norman Lindsay tipped in (Number 39).

Provenance: R.M. Chirnside, with his John Shirlow-designed bookplate (featuring the racehorse 'Linass') on the front pastedown.

Item #127449

Price (AUD): $5,000.00

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