The Banana in Queensland by A.J. Boyd - 1914

Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 85th. Meeting, Manchester, 1915, 1915. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good Condition. 16 pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Quantity Available: 1. Category: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Inventory No: 182984..

Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, 1912. pp447-515, xii pp + index for year, maps, folding charts, bw ills. Or col pictorial wraps. Some rubbing and tiny chips to covers, one of folding charts slightly misfolded with resultant edgewear. Very attractive col cover (later issues were monochrome). Articles include botanical contributions from F.M. & J.F. Bailey; as well as articles on aspects of agriculture, dairying, poultry, sttae farms, orchars, horticulture, viticulture, potatoes, sisal hemp, animal and vegetable pathology, chemistry (soils near Stanthorpe) and entomology.. Periodical. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1974. 284 pages. With an introduction by G.A. Wilkes. B/w portrait of the author and many b/w text illustrations. The dustwrapper has slight shelfwear.. Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney: Sydney University Press 1974 Facsimile Edition First Thus 12mo xxiv, 284pp, 1974 Very Fine original tea green cloth, in VF DW. New intro by G.A. Wilkes. Jacket art by the author. Old Colonials (1882) by A.J. Boyd ('Old Chum') is a rural counterpart to R.E.N. Twopenny's Town Life in Australia (1883). It presents a gellery of over a score of bush types from The Drover, The Stockman, and the Cockatoo Farmer, to The Larrikin and The Loafer, besides a study of such bush institutions as The Grog Shanty, and The Gold Escort. These sketches were first published in The Queenslander in 1875-76, and give a documentary account, more than a decade before Henry Lawson, of the outback Australia that in Lawson's hands was to acquire the status of a national myth. Old Colonials also offers the social historian a spectrum of bush occupations of this period to be found nowhere else. Scarce.

London: Queensland Emigration Office, 1882. 96pp printed in double column. Or blue cloth covered card. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover as well as initial in ink, small bookseller stamp on front free endpaper. Minor crease and slight edge wear to covers. Rare early colonial gazetteer to inform potential emigrants to Queensland. Content includes agriculture, railways, steam navigation, education and land laws. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.