Gum-Blossom Babies

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. 'Today these booklets are generally regarded as children's items, but in their day they were issued in individual envelopes and were intended to be used as enlarged greeting cards... their contribution to the Australian pictorial propaganda of the First World War was pervasive and amusing and remains perhaps the only such work to survive… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1917. Fine.. A sweetly illustrated description of the comings and goings of the humanized GUM-BLOSSOM BABIES, and their friends the gum-nut babies. 8.75'' x 5.75''. Original brown wood grain wrappers with color paste-on and brown string ties. Full-page color frontispiece and eleven sepia full-page plates. [28] pages. Ink inscription dated 1917 to first… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. 26pp. Illustrated card covers. Full page colour illustrated frontispiece and 11 full page sepia illustrations all by May Gibbs. Facsimile edition of the original. ISBN 0207150214. Contact EldoradoBooks for details postage reduction.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Angus & Robertson Ltd (undated but owner inscription dated 1918). Octavo, sewn brown light card wrappers, black lettering and mounted illus to front cover, frontispiece, 24pp (unpaginated), illus, VG- (light creasing & rubbing to covers, 6cm tear to lower spine, v slight soiling to covers, owner's inscription to f.e.p., v light tanning to page edges, 3cm closed tear to… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1922. Paperback. Good + overall. Gum-Blossom Babies are much harder to find than Gum-Nut Babies. They are more timid, being girls..." 8vo, color frontis, 28pp, unpaginated. Brown paper with with color plate of cluster of fuzzy headed babies clinging to a cluster of leaves at front cover. Bound with brown cord. B&w… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1916. 1st ed.. Paperback small octavo, good condition, full-page sepia (brown-tinted) drawings, tipped-in colour drawing front cover, colour drawing frontispiece, yapp edges to brown cover (edges repaired archival tape), edgewear, brown string binding, non-author written dedication prelim page. 56 (including 28p blank) pp. First edition. This small booklet was issued in an individual envelope [MISSING… Read more about this item

(Sydney: Angus and Robertson Ltd.: no date) An early reprint about 1920. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 26 (223 x 144 mm). Illustrated by the Author. An about fine copy.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1984. Pictorial wraps, pp. (26), colour frontis plate, sepia full-page illus. Front cover marked, corner creased. Good condn. Facsimile Edition.