Eleanor Dark’s The Story of Australia The Timeless Land Storm of Time No Barrier 3 volumes in display stand from the library of Frank Thompson

Uniform edition of Eleanor Dark’s trilogy of Australian novels – ‘The Timeless Land’, ‘Storm of Time’, and ‘No Barrier’, the set being published in 1963, in blue, green, and maroon cloth boards, with illustrated dustwrappers, housed in a card display with silver titling to front ‘Eleanor Dark’s The Story of Australia’; from the library of Frank Thompson, each volume signed by Thompson; Frank Thompson is a legendary figure in Australian publishing, for his career at the University of Queensland Press, which he transformed from an academic press to a publisher of poetry and literature, publishing first collections of David Malouf and Michael Dransfield; all volumes with foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout – The Timeless Land and No Barrier sunned to head of spine; all dustwrappers fairly heavily edgeworn and rubbed, and with strips of tape repair old and new – dustwrapper for The Timeless Land with ragged loss to head of spine, Storm of Time ragged to edges top and bottom, No Barrier lacking the top 7cm from spine, and with significant closed tears; display box edgeworn and rubbed, and with wear to cloth.