The First ANZAC Day Book - Presentation Binding
Published by the Returned Soldiers Association, Sydney April 25, 1916. 304pp. with many photo illustrations and advertisements.
This item is a specially bound edition for subscribers, published by the newly formed (Sept. 1915) Returned Soldiers Association for issue on the first ANZAC Day.
Contents include a Roll of Honour, soldiers stories, photos of Anzac, 100 pages of General Hamilton's dispatches, portraits, and excerpts from Private Cavell's diary. Also bound in blank pages for owner's own additions
Padded red full calf boards with embossed gilt title and RSA logo are a little marked and dusted. Internal front hinge cracked. Gilded text block. Contents very clean and straight, showing little handling, with good binding. Scarce. (23x15cm)

Estimate $150-300