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Edité par Macmillan, London, 1892
Vendeur : Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australie
Pp. [iv]+310(last blank)+[6](advertisements); gilt lettered dark green cloth, slightly marked and worn, the fore-corners and head of spine a trifle frayed; upper hinge starting, bookseller's blind stamp on upper free endpaper, the endpapers slightly offset, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Macmillan, London, 1892. Colonial edition. *Originally published in the same year in three volumes.
Edité par Macmillan and Co., London, 1901
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-514 [515-516: ads] + [16]-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g. First edition. A 514-page collection of short stories by a writer closely associated with Australia, having arrived there in 1830 at the age of four. He did not begin writing until he was forty, at which point he could draw on a wide range of experience. His fiction, of which ROBBERY UNDER ARMS (1888) was the most successful title, was praised for its faithful depiction of Australian life and landscapes. The present volume "contains a description of his literary beginnings and methods, and contains his two early sketches, 'A Kangaroo Shoot' and 'Shearing in Riverina' ." - Miller and Macartney, Australian Literature (1956), p. 67. Hubin (1994), p. 84. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips and rubbed along edges, old owner's signatures upside down on rear free endpaper, fore and bottom edges of text block a bit tanned, a sound, good to very good copy. (#118386).
Edité par London: Macmillan and Company., 1895
Vendeur : LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
First edition, first printing. Publisher's original limp blue cloth covers with titles and decoration in brown to the upper cover and spine. A very good or better copy, the binding firm with mild rubbing and toning at the extremities. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Decorative chapter headings. Two page publisher's advert at the rear. A story of the Australian goldfields. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.