Bruce Mason’s iconic work capturing a boy's loss of innocence in Depression-era New Zealand. The copy is inscribed to “Don”, and there is also a letter included (to the same person I presume) but here addressed in good humour as “Philistine” and thanking him for having given Mason some transport in 1966.

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