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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. Paintings & verse by David Kirk. This copy is floridly SIGNED & briefly INSCRIBED by the author/artist in black ink on title page: "To Margot. David Kirk". Kirk has added an original illustration of a bug creature above his signature (see photographs). Illustrated with wonderful full-colour paintings produced with oils on paper. First Australian Edition. Thin large format oblong volume. Printed in Hong Kong. Bound in original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, in publisher's unclipped matching pictorial dustjacket. PLEASE NOTE: Large vertical shallow slit running the entire length of the rear panel of the dustjacket (appears to have been cut with a razor, possibly when the original box was slit open?), slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. The book itself is NEAR FINE. Unpaginated (40pp). Scarce signed copy with original illustration. SB-42. Signed by Author(s).