GIBBS, May

Gum Blossom Babies

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, circa 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).

Item #1445

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.

Price (AUD): $275.00  other currencies