Desiderata A Guide to Good Books – broken run, issues no. 1-21, 23-27, 31, 36-39, 41

Broken run of Desiderata A Guide to Good Books, containing 32 of the original 41 volumes – issues no. 1-21, 23-27, 31, 36-39, 41; essays, reviews, and original work by and about Australian and international authors, including Norman Lindsay, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Hope Crampton, Mary Gilmore, AE Coppard, and many more; b&w illustrations throughout, and including lots of period advertising; all issues in printed wraps with yapp edges, and with Lionel Lindsay’s woodcut of a cockatoo to front; generally Very Good throughout, with occasional creasing to pages, and mild foxing; wraps variously rubbed and lightly edgeworn, Nos. 3, 4, 6, and 25 with old price label to front, No. 10 with former owner’s inscription to front, No. 23 with some stains and spotting.