CROCKETT, James

The English Spirit. [An Australian looks at the War (dustwrapper subtitle)]

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1941 (first UK edition)/ 1940.

Octavo, 94 pages.

Cloth; top edge lightly foxed; a near-fine copy with the excellent price-clipped dustwrapper lightly marked and sunned.

'The author of this book is a Scot who settled in Australia many years ago, and is well-known in business circles in Sydney. His far-reaching and penetrating survey is the more important, therefore, because it is made from a distance' (from the dustwrapper blurb).

'The book was first published in Sydney by Angus and Robertson in 1940, and it was issued in England at the suggestion of James MacLehose, chairman of MacLehose & Co., a friend of Crockett; as holders of Nonesuch preference shares ... MacLehose were in a commanding position' (Dreyfus 115e).

Item #130611

Price (AUD): $300.00
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