289 pages. There is the remnant shadow of a price sticker on the front cover; the head and tail of the pages have been miscut, at the head unevenly. The head also carries a horizontal line of pin prick holes; some of the pages still attached together which suggests the book has never been read. Probably not for the perfectionist, otherwise clean, unmarked and solid. An anthology of Australian women poets from European settlement till the late twentieth century.