# 46018

FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)

All that swagger

$150.00 AUD

Sydney : The Bulletin, 1937. Third Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine (fine and bright – no rubbing or sun-fading); front free-endpaper with early ownership stamp and signature crossed out, pp. 500, [2 press reviews]; spotting to edges, moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, else clean throughout; a very good copy, without the publisher’s dust jacket.

All that swagger is based on the experience of Franklin’s own forebears who emigrated from Ireland and settled in the Monaro district of New South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century. The novel was awarded the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1936.