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Queensland, University of Queensland Press, 1993. reprint - h/c in d.j. 'Dear Sir, your stories are quite hopeless' wrote the pub-lisher George Robertson to a hopeful author. 'Give it up, and take to gardening'. In his celebrated career spanning half a century Robertson also encouraged and published many literary legends - from 'Banjo' Paterson and Henry Lawson to May Gibbs, from the bestselling C. J. Dennis to the impoverished intellectual Cristopher Brennan. 24 x 16cm., pp. xi + 225, b/w plates, sources, Index of Correspondents, general index, fine in d.j.