Stuart Case by Inglis, Signed (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Black Inc., 2002 (first thus)/ 1961 (first edition, published by Melbourne University Press). Octavo, [viii], 404 pages. Colour-pictorial card covers lightly bumped on the spine; front cover slightly creased; text block tanned around the margins; a very good copy. 'The text of the original book has not been altered. Some usages generally accepted in 1961 may now distract or jar .' (author's note printed on page [vii]). However, new to this edition is the lengthy and important 'Epilogue 1959-2002' (pages 323-404). Provenance: Australian historian Professor Hugh Stretton (1924-2015) and his wife Pat, with a presentation inscription by the author on the front free endpaper: 'For Hugh, who sent me in | Providence R.I. the first copy I | ever saw, inscribed "With | compliments to the author", | and for Pat, to whom I had | self-indulgently given a | set of proofs | with love | from Ken | March 2004'. Signed.