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Octavo, bright original burgundy cloth lettered in yellow with chipped Norman Lindsay pictorial dustwrapper.
Well and truly out of print, this edition was the 'first of the Endeavour Press Australian Classic Reprints', selling about 800 copies in the first six months. Rejected by the a number of publishers, Jonah, Stone's Sydney larrikin novel, was first published by Methuen in 1911, but distributed by Angus & Robertson in Australia.

Octavo, pale foxing, very good in original green cloth (slightly flecked) lettered in black on spine.
Second impression. Co-winner of the Melbourne Centenary Novel competition. Out of print and scarce.

Octavo, foxing on edges and preliminaries, Angus & Robertson bookseller's label on front paste-down, original burgundy cloth lettered in black on spine.
Third Impression.
A critical & popular success, the novel ran to three impressions in the second half of 1934. Modelled on Henry Handel Richardson's Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy, Landtakers was folowed by Inheritors in 1936, but the third volume remains unpublished.
Brian Penton was a Sydney journalist, mostly on the Daily Telegraph, but also dabbled in publishing.

Demy octavo, pale foxing on edges and preliminaries, very good in bright original red cloth with Roy Dalgarno pictorial dustwrapper.
Reprint. First published by the Endeavour Press in May 1933, 1260 copies were sold by the end of June and second & third editions were printed in January and December 1934.
The novel won the 1933 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
Very scarce with dustwrapper.

Octavo, tipped-in contemporary bookplate, original Percy Lindsay wrappers (bit worn on spine).
First edition ‒ issue in wrappers.
Very scarce.

Octavo, original plum cloth (bit faded on spine).
First edition ‒ cloth issue. Inscribed & signed by the author. Scarce.