Poems / by Adam Lindsay Gordon

Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. Miscellaneous Poems. Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric. The Roll of the Kettledrum (illustrated). London : Robt. A. Thompson & Co., Ltd. ; Melbourne : A. H. Massina & Co., Proprietors of Copyright, 1905. Small octavo, handsome contemporary binding by J. & E. Bumpus of Oxford Street, London, of full green calf, boards with triple gilt fillet border (sunned at top edges, light wear to extremities, wear to rear leather turn-in), spine with raised bands, rich gilt in compartments and gilt lettering; all edges gilt (loss to the gilt at the edges of the last few leaves); front endpaper with early ownership inscription dated 1910; frontispiece portrait of the poet, pp. 354, illustrated with several b/w plates; binding nice and firm, contents clean throughout, a very good copy.