The Scribblings of an Idle Mind
Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1966.
Octavo, [x], 154 pages.
Gilt-decorated quarter contrasting cloth; a near-fine copy with the excellent price-clipped Norman Lindsay-illustrated dustwrapper (with a few trifling imperfections at the rear).
Number 131 of only 350 copies signed by Norman Lindsay. We have previously sold a copy containing a letter from the author, in which he gave details of the history of the publication of the book, which sold out in this limited edition 'on the day of publication'. All the publishers he offered it to had turned it down; 'Only one, Lloyd O'Neil of the Landsdowne [sic] Press, said he thought it should be published, but he could not risk his firm's money on it. I wrote saying that I would underwrite the cost of publication'.
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