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London: Heinemann, 1960. VIII, 204pp., last 2 blank, preface by author, acknowledgements and index. Green coloured boards with yellow decoration and insert on the back strip with green and yellow writing on the same. Yellow to top paper edge. Bumping to the corners of the book and to the head and to the heel of the spine. Sun fading has also occurred to the extreme edges of the back strip, more specifically the bottom edge. Speckling to the top panel edge and to the lower panel edge of the back cover. Browning to the fore edge of the paper. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste down. Gift inscription on the free front endpaper along with a stamp saying "St Charles' Seminary Library" with ink numerals in the centre. Offset tanning to the endpapers and there is foxing to the first few and to the last few pages. Plain text dust wrapper with green and yellow background and yellow and black writing on front panel and spine. Rubbing and chipping to the dust wrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine. There are small tears to the top front and back spine gutter edges. Spine has been sunned, causing fading. Grubby marks in handling marks to the book panels and foxing noticeable verso side. Dust wrapper has been priced clipped, front fold over, lower righthand corner. In this book the author gives a critical view of "...century-and-a-half of Australian writing. It deals with poetry, fiction, literary essays, and criticism, from the early colonial days fight up to 1955.".. First Edition. Green Cloth. Average/Average. Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. Literary Criticism.