Saddle for a Throne Revised Edition 1982

Revised edition of this collection of poems by Will Ogilvie, published by RM Williams who met Ogilvie in the late 1940’s; poems compiled by Thelma E. Williams, and with a foreword by Vance Palmer, and biographical note by Williams; poems grouped thus: Book I The Men Who Blazed the Track, II The Bushmen, III Songs of the Little People, IV Forty Miles for a Kiss, V Personalities, VI Nature, VII Good-Bye, VIII Philosophy, and IX The Huntsman; includes poem in facsimile, and facsimile letter by Katherine M Ogilivie; dustwrapper shows illustration of saddle and stockman on horseback and with stock-whip motif as border and spine, stock-whip motif in gilt to spine of boards; former owner’s name-label to front pastedown, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper very lightly rubbed, sunned to spine and around edges (as common with this dustwrapper), o.w. G-VG