Wattle Babies (12 results)

Condition: Good. May Gibbs (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Condition: Very Good. May Gibbs (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Beige paper cover with paste down illustration of two wattle babies sitting on a leaf, string binding. No publication date stated. Covers are soiled and water staining affect lower edge and up spine edge of all pages. Back cover is torn along spine at top down to the string.

Paperback. Condition: As New. May Gibbs (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Some Wear. May Gibbs (illustrator). Reprint, Facsimile Edition. The cover looks slightly grubby in places.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. May Gibbs (illustrator). Facsimile Reprint. Names on reverse of frontispiece.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Date. Paperback: colour frontispiece + illustrated title page and 11 full page tinted drawings, text pages have illustrated borders, covers are slightly marked, corners are bumped and creased, colour picture pasted on the front, bound with the original cord, gift panel has been filled in, lower page edges are finger creased, a couple of short tears, still g. 8vo, (23pp). Possibly the 1918 1st edition.

8vo (21.5x14cm), stapled wrapper, unpaginated (ca 28pp). Good condition. General light wear, foxed, owner's penned name at free front endpaper. With colour frontispiece and b&w drawings throughout. This item is light and may attract less postage. Pictures available on request.

(rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. unpag. (24pp.) Col.frontis & b/w ills. Sl.foxing, corner creased, inscript on ffe, else a Good copy. Facsimile edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 28pp. (last two blank). 22cm. Colour frontispiece. 11 full page monochrome illustrations. Wrappers with different colour plate pasted to front cover. Ink name on front end paper. Wrappers lightly soiled. Internally clean. No date (Muir 2738) 1918-1922? A fair to good copy.

'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). Reprint edition. String tied octavo in original wrappers with colour pictorial onlay, 28 pages, colour frontispiece and plates, a very good copy.

Sydney n.d. (ab. 1918). 8vo. Orig. illust. wrapper (sewn as issued). (26pp.). With col. frontisp., illust. title-page and num. illusts. by the author. 1st ed. Fine.