A first edition of The Roaring Twenties by Jack Lindsay, published by The Bodley Head, London in 1960. A good copy in the original boards, with the original dust jacket, the binding firm and sound, and pages clean with light, even toning and no loose leaves.
In a complete dust jacket, protected in a removable sleeve, showing age-related wear including edge chipping, creasing, rubbing, and some splitting along fold lines, though the colours remain strong and visually striking.
In this vivid first-hand account of literary and cultural life in Sydney between 1921 and 1926, Lindsay writes as participant rather than distant historian, tracing the writers, artists, journals, and debates that shaped Australian modernism in its formative interwar years. Blending memoir, criticism, and cultural reportage, the work captures the energy and experimentation of a developing national literary culture before it became institutionalised or mythologised.
A solid first edition of an important work in Australian literary history.
