Maynard Ken Illustrator (1 results)

1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white drawings, minor edgewear jacket, small edge tear fore-edge one page, pages toned, cover corner tips little bumped, spine ends little rubbed. 512 pp. Lenie (Midge) Johansen has taken ten years to collect the colourful and often funny Australian words and phrases that are found in this book. There are more than 16,000 entries. The sketches by Ken Maynard help to illustrate the Aussie ability to use one word or expression to mean many different things, depending on context or circumstance.…