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Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Excellent copy in an unclipped jacket. Includes newspaper article about the book.
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- Title The Chief. C. Y. O'Connor
- Author Tauman, Merab
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher University Of Western Australia Press, Perth
- Date 1978
- ISBN 9780855641238
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The Chief, C. Y. O'Connor
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Chief, The, C.Y.O'Connor
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Australia University of Western Australia Press August 1978. 1978. Hardcover. 8vo hardcover 290pp index, b/w illus. Very good, page edges browned, foxing to endpapers, owner's name on fep, inscription verso frontis. / very good d/w. .
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The Chief. C. Y. O'Connor
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Nedlands, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1978. xiv, 290pp, index, notes, appendix, bw ills, maps, endpaper maps. Or green cloth in jacket. Very light even toning to page edges, very slight foxing to prelims. Very light edge wear to jacket. The life and work of CY O'Connor, an engineer of genius, whose living monuments are the harbour at Fremantle and the Eastern Goldfields Water Supply. He served as Engineer-in-Chief of Western Australia at a time of dramatic social, political and economic change in the colony with the stimulation of gold discoveries bringing an increased demand for public services, showing his genius for solving such problems.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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THE CHIEF - C. Y. O'Connor
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Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket O'Connor was said by his contemporaries to be a man ahead of his time, an engineer of genius. His living monuments are the inner harbour at Fremantle and the Eastern Goldfields Water Supply. Yet he was driven to his death by political pressure and his own self doubt. 250 x 162mm., pp. xiv, 290, map end/p., b/w plates, notes, index. Hardcover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, very slight spotting top edge; d.j. slight creasing top spine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0855641231
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