Showdown. (First Australian edition)

Sydney : Invincible Press, 1946. First Australian edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s grey cloth over boards in original pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and head and tail of spine), 228 pp; light spotting to endpapers and fore-edges, else contents very clean, a good copy.

This adventure novel by the swashbuckling, Tasmanian-born Hollywood actor Errol Flynn is reputed to have earned him US $184,000 (equivalent to well over 2 million dollars today) when it was published in 1946.