39. D.L. SERVENTY

YOLLA DIARY
An important diary established by Dominique (Dom) Serventy at the CSIRO research facility on Fisher Island in the Furneaux Group of Bass Strait.

With entries from 1956 - 76


Thick quarto 26 x 21 cm in full black calf gilt to cover and spine with slip case.



Estimate: $20,000/30,000

Guest book contains 243 pages displaying signatures, poetry, drawings and photographs by friends and dignitaries and approximately 200 pages blank.

Drawing and caricatures and embellishments by Sir Peter Scott (1); Sir Russell Drysdale (3); Clifton Pugh (2); Robin Hill (1); Peter Slater (1); Stephen Walker (3); Nigel Brothers (2); David Milledge (3); Stan Fowler (1); Eric Lindgren (1); George Davis (1); Ricka Erickson (1); Jerry Van Tetts (2); Peter Slater (1) and 30 others by various and unknown contributors.

Poetry, verse; short stories and glossaries by Mary E Gillham; Sir Russell Drysdale; Ricka Erickson; Kenneth E Gamble; CA Nicholls; Jerry Van Tets; Eric Worrell; Alan Moorehead; David Murray Smith; David Milledge; Vincent Serventy; Leslie Rees; Donald S Farner; Ronald Lockley; Leonard E Wall; Kenneth E Gamble;

Photographs by Vincent Serventy; P Reith; Eric Worrell; Douglass Baglin; C A Nicholls; Annette B Cottrell and others.