Voice of the forest : poems. (Presentation copy for George Mackaness)

Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1945. First edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), printed pale green wrappers with flap folds; frontispiece portrait; pp. xii, 48; foreword by R. G. Howarth; a presentation copy inscribed on page 1 by Hugh McCrae for bibliophile Dr. George Mackaness and his wife Alice: ‘To G. and A., with gratitude and affection‘; further inscribed by McCrae on the half title: ‘H. McC: Tell me, my heart, the way to your Palace … Heart: Follow your nose to the “George and His Alice”‘; with the ex libris of Dr. George Mackaness; very fine, housed in Mackaness’ custom-made green morocco slipcase with gilt-lettered spine.