Girl With A Monkey 1st Edition from the library of Frank Thompson

1st Edition of Thea Astley’s firsst novel; this copy from the library of Frank Thompson (signed by Thompson to front endpaper) – 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; mild foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, occasional foxed spots in text, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, lightly sunned to spine, o.w. Very Good.