Queensland School Readers Book V

1933 edition of the Queensland School Reader for Grade V; the intention of the Readers was “to instil into the minds of pupils a love for literature as will last beyond school days and be to a source of permanent profit and delight” (from preface); excerpts from Ethel Turner, Cervantes, Henry Kingsley, Swift, Fenimore Cooper, Scott, Dickens, etc; b&w text and full-page illustrations, and with frontispiece plate showing the Opening of the First Federal Parliament of Australia 9th May 1901; bookshop stamp to front endpaper, heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, some pages with pencil annotations and marks in text; boards rubbed and scuffed, sunned to spine.