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Gum Blossom Babies by GIBBS, May - 1916

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Gum Blossom Babies by GIBBS, May - 1916

Gum Blossom Babies

by GIBBS, May

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Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1916. First Edition. Rare first edition. 'Today these booklets are generally regarded as children's items, but in their day they were issued in individual envelopes and were intended to be used as enlarged greeting cards... their contribution to the Australian pictorial propaganda of the First World War was pervasive and amusing and remains perhaps the only such work to survive with a timeless appeal.' (Holden, p 92). String tied octavo in original wrappers with colour pictorial onlay, 56 pages, colour frontispiece and plates, the front cover shows some wear at the edges, a couple of small tears to yap wrapper edges, light crease mark to tipped pictorial onlay, a near fine copy of the rare first edition.

  • Bookseller Rare Illustrated Books AU (AU)
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Angus and Robertson
  • Place of Publication Sydney
  • Date Published 1916
  • Keywords Flowers Flora Blossoms Art Stories Imagination May Gibbs Gumnuts Ephemera Australiana Australian Bush

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Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1984. Pictorial wraps, pp. (26), colour frontis plate, sepia full-page illus. Front cover marked, corner creased. Good condn. Facsimile Edition.
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Gum Blossom Babies

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9780207150210
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0207150214
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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. 26pp. Illustrated card covers. Full page colour illustrated frontispiece and 11 full page sepia illustrations all by May Gibbs. Facsimile edition of the original. ISBN 0207150214. Contact EldoradoBooks for details postage reduction.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.
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Angus & Robertson Ltd (undated but owner inscription dated 1918). Octavo, sewn brown light card wrappers, black lettering and mounted illus to front cover, frontispiece, 24pp (unpaginated), illus, VG- (light creasing & rubbing to covers, 6cm tear to lower spine, v slight soiling to covers, owner's inscription to f.e.p., v light tanning to page edges, 3cm closed tear to p14, v light foxing to rear ep)
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(Sydney: Angus and Robertson Ltd.: no date) An early reprint about 1920. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 26 (223 x 144 mm). Illustrated by the Author. An about fine copy.
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Gum Blossom Babies: Words and Pictures by May Gibbs [Gum-Blossom Babies].

by Gibbs, May

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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1916. 1st ed.. Paperback small octavo, good condition, full-page sepia (brown-tinted) drawings, tipped-in colour drawing front cover, colour drawing frontispiece, yapp edges to brown cover (edges repaired archival tape), edgewear, brown string binding, non-author written dedication prelim page. 56 (including 28p blank) pp. First edition. This small booklet was issued in an individual envelope [MISSING as usual], and was intended for use as an enlarged greeting card, and these also served as amusing distractions during the First World War. Printed by H & H Printing Co., Sydney. SALE PRICE. (Muir 2732. Contains 11 full-page sepia drawings. Hyphen in title on front cover. Written dedication dated Xmas, 1917.).
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1922. Paperback. Good + overall. Gum-Blossom Babies are much harder to find than Gum-Nut Babies. They are more timid, being girls..." 8vo, color frontis, 28pp, unpaginated. Brown paper with with color plate of cluster of fuzzy headed babies clinging to a cluster of leaves at front cover. Bound with brown cord. B&w ills. Front cover slt. rippled, back cover slt marked, otherwise clean. Shepard and Newman printer.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. 'Today these booklets are generally regarded as children's items, but in their day they were issued in individual envelopes and were intended to be used as enlarged greeting cards... their contribution to the Australian pictorial propaganda of the First World War was pervasive and amusing and remains perhaps the only such work to survive with a timeless appeal.' (Holden, p 92). Reprint edition. String tied octavo in original wrappers with colour pictorial onlay, 28 pages, colour frontispiece and plates, previous owners inscription on gift-page, a few pages embrowned, a very very good copy.
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GUM-BLOSSOM BABIES

by Gibbs, May

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Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1917. Fine.. A sweetly illustrated description of the comings and goings of the humanized GUM-BLOSSOM BABIES, and their friends the gum-nut babies. 8.75'' x 5.75''. Original brown wood grain wrappers with color paste-on and brown string ties. Full-page color frontispiece and eleven sepia full-page plates. [28] pages. Ink inscription dated 1917 to first leaf. Very mild rubbing to edges of wrappers, else in beautiful condition.
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