First Edition. Dust jacket torn along spine with moderate foxing throughout. A collection of poetry about Australian birds and animals. Nelle Grant Cooper has composed a cheery Christmas ditty on the front endpaper and dedicated this copy to fellow Australian poet, Jack Moses, signed and dated December 1939.

With illustrations by Percy Lindsay. This is a presentation copy dedicated by the author to famous Australian poet, Jack Moses (1861-1945). "To Moses of the Jack name with the author's compliments." Moses was an Sydney-based whisky merchant and renowned troubadour and author of the iconic Australian Ballad 'Nine Miles from Gundagai.