Dame Roma. Glimpses of a Glorious Life

Adelaide, Axiom Publishing in association with the John Bray Law Chapter of the Alumni Association of the University of Adelaide, 2002. Small quarto, 366 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs). Papered boards; front cover slightly marked; front free endpaper slightly stained from the adhesive used to mount two signed cards (see below); overall, an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper (slightly rubbed) in the pictorial slipcase (with the original laminate bubbled with slight loss on one side). The deluxe edition, being number 220 of 275 copies, with the limitation stated on the first of two cards mounted facing each other on two early blanks. The cards are personally signed by the editor and 13 prominent members of the South Australian legal and political fraternities (above their printed names). The signatories are Sir William Deane, Sir Harry Gibbs, Len King, Elizabeth Evatt, Ted Mullighan, Marcus Einfeld, Amanda Vanstone, Geoff Muecke, Clyde Cameron, Kevin Marjoribanks, Noni Farwell, Peter Bassett, Susan Magarey and Helena Jasinski. The cards are now loosely inserted, as the paste is ineffective as well as decidedly inferior. A contemporary personalised presentation plate is mounted on the half-title.…