Blue Brander : a story of adventure and Australian school life

London and Melbourne : Ward Lock & Co., 1927. First edition. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), pictorial cloth (some flecking to to both boards, but otherwise bright and unmarked), front free-endpaper with school prize certificate dated 1946, pp 313, [6 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with numerous b/w plates; light foxing to half title, else very clean throughout, edges with spotting; an attractive copy.

D. Lindsay Thompson’s mother, Lilian, was the sister of Ethel Turner.