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AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS AND BIRDS
Written by Sheila Hawkins. Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins.
Stock no. 1831550
Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book on Australian nature, concentrating on the most curious or charming of all these creatures for illustration. Everything from Great Kangaroos to the exquisite Feathertail Gliders; from the koala and its 'near relation' the wombat to the prickly echidna which likes to eat raw eggs through a hole in the shell... Pictorial cloth boards. Green two-tone illustrated endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. 64 pages. Boards bright. Foxing to top edge of text block. Name and date in ink to colophon page else contents beautifully clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, 2" split to top of front fold (no loss), scuffed.

ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA
Written by Sheila Hawkins. Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins.
Stock no. 1323215
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

Puffin picture book no. 45. Oblong format, paper wraps. Colour and b/w lithographed illustrations. Lithographed by Brown & Bibby. Name in ink and old price in pencil to front cover. Foxing to covers, inside covers and to page edges.