The Blue and Brown Diamond. A History of the 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919
Adelaide, Lonnen & Cope, 1921.
Octavo, 228 pages with 12 illustrations and 16 maps plus 13 pages of plates and the printed front endpaper.
Expertly rebound, retaining the colour-pictorial cloth (now cut into three panels and mounted on the new matching plain cloth), with replacement endpapers (closely matched in colour, with the front one a photocopy of the original printed version); slight blemishes to the retained original cloth; acidic text paper tanned (as ever); top corner tip of most leaves rounded off; a tear across one leaf expertly sealed; small and inoffensive stains and tears to some leading margins; minor signs of age and use; overall, a very good copy of a book notoriously difficult to find in halfway decent condition because of the poor quality of the materials used in its production.
Provenance: 2280 Corporal Victor Clarence Sidney McGrath (a member of the battalion), with his ownership details written in ballpoint pen on the title page. Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226.
Item #129501
Price (AUD):
$750.00