Backblock Ballads and other verses 1st cloth edition 1913
Den (C.J. Dennis)
$750.00
Place Published: Melbourne
Edition: 1st Edition
Date Published: 1913
Size: 8vo
Scarce 1st cloth edition of CJ Dennis’ first collection of poems, containing poems in two sections (as per the title, which alludes to Kipling’s Barrack-Room Ballads), followed by a six page glossary of Aussie slang terms; published by EW Cole – undated [Trove 1913]; blue cloth boards illustrated to front in red and black by David Low, black titling to spine; originally published in three formats, wrappers, cloth, and leather – this being the cloth edition, an estimated 500 copies of which were published (as per McLaren as referenced by Neil Glover on The Institute of Australian Culture website); the most scarce CJ Dennis title (who was at this time going by his pen-name “Den”); heavy tanning and foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, lighter scattered foxing throughout, o.w. Good; boards rubbed, and with some minor worn spots.