The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses. Preface by Rolf Boldrewood

PATERSON,A.B. [Banjo]

$3,950.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson, London, Y.J. Pentland, 1895. First edition, later issue
Description: ppxiv, 184; 8vo, original blue green cloth, gilt lettering and gilt top edges. Light tanning to endpapers and edges, minimal wear to corners & marking to back board

A near fine copy of this iconic work. Identical to the first issue except for `Preface by Rolf Boldrewood’ on the title page, and bound in blue green cloth instead of burgundy. See Jonathan Wantrup, Vol.11, pp.981-90. One of the two books which launched George Robertson as the first `real’ Australian literary publisher. The other was Lawson’s `In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses’, 1896

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