Format: Five softcover 12mo booklets in pink, blue or yellow wrappers, all signed “Dorothea Mackellar” in ink on front cover, 18.7 x 12.6cm.

Five booklets from the collection of Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968), best known for My Country.

There are three booklets from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum:

  1. A Picture Book of Dolls and Dolls’ Houses, Letterpress with photogravure illustrations, publication no. PB13, unpaginated.
  2. A Picture Book of Japanese Sword Guards, Letterpress with photogravure illustrations, publication no. PB19, unpaginated.
  3. A Picture Book of Children in Sculpture, 1927. Letterpress with photogravure illustrations, publication no. PB22, unpaginated.

And two booklets from The Ariel Press:

  1. S. Eliot, A Song for Simeon, [1928]. Colour lithograph by E. McKnight Kauffer. Faber & Gwyer, Ariel Poems no. 16.
  2. Walter de la Mare, Self to Self, [1928]. With wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Faber & Gwyer, Ariel Poems no. 11.

All covers but one separated from block, chipped, discoloured and extremely fragile.