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London -- Sydney: William Collins Sons & Co,, 1972. 800 g; 112 pages, last five pages blank, illustrated end pages, nine double page colour plates, five single page plates, other illustrations in black and whites throughout the book. Colour illustrated dust wrapper reproducing Bathers by the Road. Price clipping to the dust jacket, traces of foxing to the top edge of the text block, otherwise in very good order. Donald Friend, an Australian painter of rare genius who has made Bali his home, has got under the island's skin and has ferreted out for our delight a fascinating combination of myth, anecdote, legend, and exuberant detail that as presented here in word and image develops into a picture of stunning brilliance and leaves is unable to doubt that a highly original mind and talent is very successfully at work in two quite different media. -- front fold over blurb. First Edition. Black Cloth. Good/Good -- Price Clipped. Illus. by Donald Friend. Quarto -- up to 12 " Tall. Art.