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Roderick, Colin : Henry Lawson's Formative Years (1883-1893)

Wentworth Press, Sydney, Austalia, 1960

Limited Edition, one of 250 copies. Original publisher's beige paper wrappers with staple binding. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4." Thirty-six pages, complete. Six black-and-white illustrations, complete. Printed on copyright page: "Published in February, 1960, from a paper delivered to the Royal Australian Historical Society on August 25, 1959, and first printed in its Journal and Proceedings, Volume 45, Part 3 ... Edition Limited to 250 Copies." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly age-toned with occasional marks. Covers have a few small wrinkles and moderate browning. A Very Good copy. About Henry Lawson (1867-1922), the celebrated Australian author and poet who is best-known for his writings about the Australian bush. Printed on back cover: "In this essay Dr. Roderick throws light on the social turmoil that worked on the young and impressionable mind of Henry Lawson during the years 1883 to 1893. The figures that Lawson knew and admired pass across the stage in swift review: Louisa Lawson, his mother; Thomas Walker, M.L.A., and George Black, M.L.A., ardent Republicans; John Farrell; Mary Jean Cameron, whom we know to-day as Dame Mary Gilmore; Gresley Lukin, editor of the Boomerang. This essay tells how Lawson gathered ideas and sentiments from all these people, to express them in verse and prose that threw down a challenge to the traditions of the nineteenth century. Here, printed for the first time, is 'The Distant Drum' -- the first poem Lawson sent to the Bulletin, and which earned him a place in the 'Answers to Correspondents' column.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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