SCOTT, Ernest

Australia during the War. [Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-18. Volume XI]

Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1936 (first edition).

Octavo, xxx, 922 pages with a map and 4 illustrations plus 64 pages of plates (from photographs). The plates and illustrations are numbered 1-67.

Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth a little flecked and rubbed, with the spine sunned and a little unevenly faded; edges a little foxed; library plates, stamps and labels on the endpapers and title page (but see below); a few other minor signs of age and handling; overall, a very good copy.

Mounted on the front pastedown is the bookplate of the 'Healesville Sub-Branch R.S.S.I.L.A.'. The bottom third of the bookplate is left blank, under the heading 'Author's Autograph', and has been personally signed in purple ink by Ernest Scott. The front free endpaper has the bookplate of the Reference Library of the Eastern Regional Libraries, and a June 1976 accession date stamp. We have sold many hundreds of volumes of this official history, edited by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-1968), and copies signed by any of the authors are singularly rare in our experience.

'This book deals almost entirely with occurrences within Australia. It describes the background - political, social, industrial, economic - against which the war-effort of Australia was projected' (from the preface).

Dornbusch 209 (the complete set), 353 (Volumes 1 and 2), 294-297 (Volumes 3-6), 374 (Volume 10), 219 (Volume 11) and 223 (Volume 12); Fielding and O'Neill, page 208 (the complete set); Trigellis-Smith 725-36 (the complete set). Dornbusch provides useful information about dates of reprints and revised editions.

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