Hardback. Yellow board binding with brown title on the spine.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG.

The poems in this collection were chosen by Paterson’s granddaughters – those that have proved most popular as well as their own particular favourites. Time spent reading this book will be time spent with old, familiar friends. There is a warmth, richness and humour about the poems of Banjo Paterson that has endeared them to generations of Australians. Old favourites include: The Man from Snowy River Mulga Bill’s Bicycle The Geebung Polo Club and of course Waltzing Matilda

Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia’s colonial period. Born in rural New South Wales, Paterson worked as a lawyer before transitioning into literature, where he quickly gained recognition for capturing the life of the Australian bush. A representative of the Bulletin School of Australian literature, Paterson wrote many of his best known poems for the nationalist journal The Bulletin, including “Clancy of the Overflow” (1889) and “The Man from Snowy River” (1890). His 1895 ballad “Waltzing Matilda” is regarded widely as Australia’s unofficial national anthem and, according to the National Film and Sound Archive, has been recorded more than any other Australian song.