SEMMLER, Clement.

The Art of Brian James and other Essays on Australian Literature …

[St Lucia,] University of Queensland Press, [1972].

8vo, pp. xi, [1], 162; publisher’s brown and red decorative cloth, dustjacket repeating the design; a fine copy in a near-fine jacket, spine sunned; bookplate of D. G. Bridson.

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First edition, inscribed ‘For Joyce & Geoffrey – a memento of your welcome visit again to Sydney / Clem / Jan. 1973’.

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