All That Swagger by Miles Franklin, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 500pp. (+ Press Reviews, 2pp). 20.5cm. Lacks free front end paper. Page edges foxed and tanned. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Hard cover in original cloth. A fair to good clean copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Good+ to Very Good in Wraps: shows some rubbing to the panels; a half-inch split at the upper front corner of the backstrip where it meets the front panel has been carefully repaired with clear cellophane tape so that it is not readily noticeable; the expected tanning to the text pages due to aging; the outside edges of the text block show faint foxing and the fore-edge also shows a couple of small, faint dampstains; the binding is secure; the text clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A copy showing moderate use, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a little wear and a few cosmetic imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7.15 x 4.55 x 0.85 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 8.5 ounces. First published in 1936, this is the first Arkon Paperback edition, published in 1979. First Printing Thus. Trade Paperback. Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879 1954) , known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel 'My Brilliant Career', published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major annual prize for literature about "Australian Life in any of its phases", which resulted in the Miles Franklin Award. Her impact was further recognised in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman. Franklin resettled in Australia in 1932 after the death of her father in 1931. During that decade she wrote several historical novels of the Australian bush, although most of these were published under the pseudonym "Brent of Bin Bin" to protect herself from poor reviews, as she increasingly feared that nothing she wrote would ever match the success of 'My Brilliant Career'. Nevertheless,' All That Swagger' was published under her own name in 1936, and would indeed match the success of her debut novel, winning the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize. Franklin also won the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1939 together with Kate Baker for their collaborative work 'Who Was Joseph Furphy? '. 'All That Swagger' focusses the day-to-day progress of an Australian squatter family (part of the "squattocracy", those given unclaimed land by the government if they agreed to work it, as opposed to wealthy British who were awarded tracts of land directly by the British government). The book is sprinkled with insanely witty dialog and rumination: "The transformation of the peasant element was in part the contribution of the horse. No man can remain a peasant and go a-horse. This four footed brother cannot supply what Nature omitted, and change dunces into intellectuals, but he can lighten their bovine peculiarities. Horses! Horses!" The novel is a panoramic exposition of the sweep and context of Australian history and the people who lived it. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 418 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. Mustard coloured cloth covers with titles to spine.Covers are undamaged,no rub,wear or tears.Book is clean and tight,Remains of bookplate on blank prelim,slight cant to book.

1st edition / 1st printing chipped dust jacket Very Good octavo 500pp., frontis., b/w plates, appendix, Minor use, Chester Eagle's copy with his ownership signature. A nice copy in bright red boards. In a rather chipped & repaired but mostly complete dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "W. LOUIS F. POST / INCLUDING GREETINGS FROM / STELLA MILES FRANKLIN" RED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH BLACK TITLES TO THE SPINE. BOOK HAS MODEST RUB/WEAR AT THE TURNED CORNERS AND THE SLIGHTLY DARKENED SPINE'S EDGES, AND COVERS ARE MODERATELY MARKED AND FADED. A VERY NICE CLEAN COPY. Louis F Post was an advocate of Henry George's "SINGLE TAX" philosophy and the founder, with his wife Anna, of a journal of liberal opinion, called "Public". He was appointed in 1913 assitant secretary of Labor, and continued in office through President Wilson's 2 terms. He ran up against the anti-communists during the "red scare" because he sought to temper the deportation of radical aliens with humanity and liberalism. This resluted in being subjected to an impeachment attempt which he brilliantly defended by shaming his inquisitors. Stella had know the couple from her Chicago days and apparently kept in touch with Anna for the rest of her life. Since Louis died in 1928, I understand the inscription to be to Anna and the odd "W" possibility indicating widow? Signed by Author(s).

Sydney : The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine, in the publisher's orange dust jacket with black type (fine and bright); front free-endpaper with early ownership signature, title page signed in black ink by the author Miles Franklin, pp. 500; spotting to edges, moderate foxing to preliminaries and first and last few leaves of text, else clean throughout; a desirable signed copy of the first edition. All that swagger is based on the experience of Franklin's own forebears who emigrated from Ireland and settled in the Monaro district of New South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century. The novel was awarded the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1936.