Gum Leaves, with Oddments by Others (1900). Scarce Ethel Turner. DH Souter ill.

Description: Gum Leaves, with Oddments by Others, by Ethel Turner (1900). Her scarcest book. D. H. Souter (Illustrator). Sydney & Brisbane: William Brooks & Company (1900). 220 pages. ISBN: Pre-ISBN. Our ID: 14780. Hardback narrow octavo, no jacket, good plus condition, papered colour pictorial board covers (corners worn), recased with new black cloth spine & endpapers, black & white vignettes, adverts, pages & edges lightly toned, edgewear, written dedication inside front cover. The rarest and first book by novelist for young adults Ethel Turner, consisting of a miscellany of verse and prose. Some of the material had appeared previously in the "Town and Country Journal". (No date, but 1900, Trove. Book adverts at rear. This is not the first edition, but the later variant edition of the same year, which has some poems omitted, and replaced by mock South African [Boer] War reports inserted, on pp. 67 / 68, 115 / 116, 161 / 162, 221. (Written dedication reads: "To Betty, with love from Aunty Vall and Uncle Tom Boyd, June 1919”.). Keywords: children's literature, young adults fiction, poetry, poems, australia, collectible, collectable. All books and ephemera in stock in Sydney. Selling books online since 2000. Accurate descriptions. Excellent packaging. Sent by Australia Post.

Price: 650 AUD

Location: Stanmore, NSW

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