Dot and the Kangaroo. (First Australian edition)

With six illustrations by Frank P. Mahoney. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1906. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth (edges lightly rubbed), small booksellers labels to pastedowns, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, frontispiece illustration and five black and white plates by Frank Mahoney, pp. [vi]; 204; (2); (32 – publisher’s advertisements dated June 1906), occasional light foxing, a very good copy.

The first Australian edition of Pedley’s classic of Australian children’s literature, first published posthumously in London in 1899.

Muir 5915 (citing a copy with advertisements dated November 1906)