IN SEARCH OF HENRY LAWSON
by Manning Clark
(South Melbourne): Macmillan, (1979). First edition, SECOND printing. First published in 1978. Generously illustrated with photographs and maps. Clark offers a portrait and critique of the poet and prose author who he considers to be "the first articulate voice of the real Australia", beginning with the literary hero's rise as a "bard of the workers". Lower corner tips lightly bumped, else near fine in textured black boards with white embossed titles to the spine, black-and-white headband and tail-band; in a lightly rubbed very nearly fine dust jacket. Quarto; 143 pages; sources; illustrations; index. PLEASE VISIT OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT LITERARY FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |