Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. By the author of ‘Ashtaroth’. [Tog. with] Adam Lindsay Gordon. His Friends in England and Australia. By Edith Humphris and Douglas Sladen

[GORDON,Adam Lindsay]

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Publisher: Melbourne, George Robertson, 1867, & London, Constable, 1912. First editions
Description: pp(ii), 172, 8vo, & ppxxxii, 464 pages, 17 plates, text ills; 8vos, `Sea Spray' in original pebbled cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and faded: The biography, a very fine copy in pictorial cloth gilt.

Jonathan Wantrup sees `some irony in the fact that the first poet to give voice to verse that was distinctively Australian was not native-born but a Scottish remittance man’ and suggests that of `Sea Spray’ `500 copies were printed of which only a hundred sold’

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