THE SOUL OF THE TI-TREE [cover title reads FROM THE SOUL OF THE TI-TREE]. Melbourne: Published by Thomas C. Lothian, 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-94 [95-96: blank] [note: first two leaves used as front paste-down and free endpaper, last leaf used as rear free endpaper; left side of rear paste-down sheet is excised with stub preceding signature F], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of author) small photograph of a ti-tree tipped onto verso of title leaf, original green half-cloth and light green boards printed in black. First edition. Signed inscription on front free endpaper: "In Remembrance of Edwina, F. K. Geach. Melbourne. 6-6-10." Posthumously published collection of short impressionistic sketches and fairy tales, generally with a pious mystical tone. An amateurish version of Fiona MacLeod. Scarce. Only one library holding in UK (BL) and one in U.S. (UCLA). Day, A Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, p. 33. Larnach, Materials Towards a Checklist of Australian Fantasy to 1937 (1950), p. 12. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Boards worn and tanned at edges, text block shaken, paper tanned, a good copy. A fragile book printed on pulpy laid paper stock. Quite scarce. (#114748).

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