xxiv 88 pages,4 coloured plates, illustrated, music, bibliography. Ownership signature on half title page, minor pencil annotations on the blank outer edge of page 59, else clean, unmarked and solid. A title in The National Theatre Series. Full title : "The Currency Lass or My Native Girl : a Musical Play in Two Acts " "Edward Geoghegan (1813 - 11 January 1869) was an Irish-Australian writer and town clerk. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was a medical student when transported as a convict to Australia in 1840. He wrote a number of plays, including The Hibernian Father the first Australian written play professionally performed in Sydney"