Waltzing Matilda. A background to Australia.

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London: Adams & Charles Black 1940. 8vo. Wrapper (shelf-soiled). (xxiv 288pp.). With frontisp. and 7 full-page plates. Advance page proofs ... with 8 of the 37 illusts. Light foxing to front end-pages. NOTE: The author Arnold Haskell went travelling around Australia and this is his recollections. As for choosing the title 'Waltzing Matilda' he states in his introductory note "I found some resemblance between that swagman and myself..."