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Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1963. hardcover. Bottom rear corner slightly bumped. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. A beautiful book. Paul Landacre. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound with a black wallaby hide spine impressed in gold leaf with a symbolic design and bearing a green inlaid label on which the title and author are stamped in gold; sides are wood veneer; 504 pages. Copy #721 of 1500 printed on Australian smooth cream-tone paper by the Griffin Press in Australia under the supervision of Douglas Dunstan. Introduction by Sir Charles G. Darwin, grandson of the author. With 71 illustrations engraved in wood by Paul Landacre, 6 of them full-page two-color engravings. Issued unsigned.