Isbn: 9780908784745 (1 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition. Front panel of dust-jacket slightly damp-affected, with wrinkles.; Number 72 of an edition of 65 numbed copies "+ 9 extra" [making 74 copies]. The "+ 9 extra" is a hand-written annotation on the limitation page. 33, [2], [1 (blank)] pages. Red boards with printed paper label on front board. Page dimensions: 162 x 108mm. "As memory serves, the famous Wirths Circus paid two visits to my home town of Balclutha during my boyhood in the 1920s. It came by rail and appraently stayed just the one dramatic day. On both occasions the big top and its attendant menagerie tent were set up in vacant paddocks near our back-street house, once indeed almost directly across the road. The following reminiscences may have some subject interest outside its tentative story form. It was written fairly close to the event - about 1938 - and one or two emendations have been made for this belated printing." - page 7. Nag's Head Press checklist item #107. …