[AUSTRALIAN ART, LITERARY HOAX] Ern Malley; Sidney Nolan: The Darkening Ecliptic

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• Lot Description

  Ern Malley; Sidney Nolan

  The Darkening Ecliptic

  [London]: R Alistair McAlpine, no date.
  First Edition.
  31.5cm x 24cm. 56 pages, colour illustrations. Papered boards, illustrated jacket.

  Poems of Ern Malley, the greatest literary hoax of Australia created by Harold Stewart and James McAuley to discredit Angry Penguins' editor Max Harris, here accompanied by colour reproductions of drawings by Sidney Nolan.

  Minor foxing to top edge and jacket. Jacket rubbed and tanned with small chips and tears to spine. Very Good Condition in Good Jacket.

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