BLINKY BILL, The Quaint Little Australian.

Second printing of the 1933 first edition. Publisher's original light blue mottled paper covered boards with illustration and titles in brown to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, 13 plates in brown and white (on gloss paper) and line drawings throughout the text by Dorothy Wall. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some rubbing and bumping to the spine tips and corners, the boards bright and fresh. The contents, with a small bookseller's stamp to the bottom of the front endpaper, and some spotting to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has tiny closed tears and chips at the spine tips and fold corners (secured with tape to the underside). An attractive example, distinctly uncommon in the dustwrapper.

The New Zealand born author and illustrator's first book to feature the anthropomorphic koala Blinky Bill. (Muir 7824).