Cirrus@Austlit

Illustrated by Fred Leist and Norman Bell-Booth.

Copies sighted of this work have no date of publication. E. Morris Miller in Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935 (Melbourne University Press, 1940) cites two publications of this work, one entitled Backblock Ballads (1927) and the other Backblock Ballads and Lignum Lyrics (1934). Mitchell Library's Dictionary Catalog of Printed Books (G. K. Hall, 1968) lists the second title with the date 1927. The National Library of Australia holds four copies. One of these copies has an inscription dated '10.6.27'. The National Library also holds an ex Australian Literature Society Library copy with the part inscription 'Book Exhibition 1934'.

The National Library of Australia holds a copy of this work in the Pearce collection which has two extra typewritten poems tipped in.