BOOKS (5), Three Scarce Early Australian Fiction, & 2 Folio Society Volumes.
Includes 2 First Edition Volumes of Hal Richardson 'One Man War: The Jock McLaren Story', A&R 1957, Adelaide, both hardcovers with illustrated endpapers, one with illustrated dust wrapper; 1958 first hardcover edition of 'On the Beach' by Neville Shute, Heinemann London, dust wrapper illustration by John Rowland. NB: On the beach was made into a film with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire & Anthony Perkins in 1959; A T.E. Lawrence 'Revolt in the Desert', Folio Society 2006, hardcover in slip case; and Jerome Carcopino 'Daily Life in Ancient Rowe', Folio Society 2004, edited by Henry Rowell, translated to English by E.O. Lorimer. 26x18cm (largest)

PROVENANCE:
From the collection of the late George Fennell

Estimate $100-200



Condition: 1) sunning to spine, minor foxing. 2) torn dust wrapper, minor marks, foxing. 3) some foxing to pages & dust wrapper. 4 & 5) both good with minor pen marks to opening pages, minor foxing.


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