Age of Consent by Lindsay, Norman - 1948

Pocket Books, 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pocket Books, 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. 2nd printing

Sydney; Ure Smith; 1962. . First Australian Edition; Post 8vo; pp. (iv), 236; numerous b/w illustrations throughout, bound in original green cloth, dustjacket clipped and a little worn and chipped on edges, good copy. This book was originally published in New York in 1938 but was banned in Australia until 1962 due to censorship laws.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition, published simultaneously with the British edition (the Australian edition wasn't published until 1962). Illustrated by the author. Faint paper remnants on the endpapers, else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A humorous novel about an Australian artist, living a carefree life on the beach, whose placid existence is interrupted by a model. Basis for an amusing 1969 film directed by Michael Powell and featuring James Mason and Helen Mirren. Very uncommon.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1938). 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy with light shelfwear, miniscule bumping to a couple of corners; jacket a little worn and slightly creased along top edge, with a few other tiny edge-nicks, fading to spine, tiny chip at base of spine, diagonal white scrape mark on front panel]. (line drawings) Somewhat risque comic novel -- "Rabelaisian" is the preferred term, I believe -- by this Australian artist-illustrator, about a curmudgeonly artist living with his dog, Edmund, in a shanty on a remote beach. He only wants to be left alone to paint seascapes, but has his idyllic paradise increasingly compromised -- first by the appearance of a nubile (and scantily clad) teen-age girl, who he immediately recognizes as an ideal model/muse, and subsequently by a gaggle of eccentric characters, including the girl's gin-swilling grandmother and a runaway bank clerk. Lindsay was somewhat of a literary… Read More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1938). First US Edition. Hardcover. Slight bumping to boards. Unclipped DJ protected in mylar, light rubbing and edgewear, mild soiling, few small tears, lightly faded spine, flap edges foxed. Solid binding and clean text. Pages lightly browned. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages .

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1938. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Norman Lindsay. A solid, very presentable copy of the 1938 1st American edition. Tight and VG+ (light offsetting along the pastedowns and the inner gutters) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with several small closed tears and light creasing at the panel edges. A bit of mild soiling as well to the rear panel. Thick 12mo, illustrated throughout in line drawings by the author himself.