Description In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension.
His book-hunting would take him all over the.
This was the beginning of what would become a major collection and a lifelong obsession.
He\'d read the volume often, but now he had to own it.
Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had \'collected\' his first Book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke .
Description In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension