EUREKA STOCKADE by RICHARD BUTLER - 1983

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983. 185pp, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket a little faded, TV series announcement sticker on front. Prev owners name writ small at top of front free endpaper, a little foxing to page edges. Compelling narrative of the 1854 rebellion at the Eureka gold diggings at Ballarat, Victoria. Hailed as the first attempt to throw off the British yoke and establish a republic on Australian soil.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, endpaper map, edges slightly foxed, pages faintly toned as usual, edgewear. 185 pp. Richard Butler tells the story of the celebrated rebellion of gold miners at Ballarat in Victoria in 1854, lead by Irish-born miner Peter Lalor.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0207146462 . With illustrations and endpaper maps of Ballarat, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. This book is light, and postage will be reduced for shipment. ; 220 x 140mm; 185 pages .

Good for age but slightly shelf skewed in lightly bumped and marked, protected dustjacket. Not clipped.

London: Angus and Robertson Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Thus. Hardcover. 0207146462 . Richard Butler's compelling narrative of rebellion on the goldfields. Pictorial d/w, NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Brown boards, extremities rubbed, corners and head/tail of spine slightly bumped. White titling to spine. Maps to e/p's. 185 pp. Illustrated in black/white. 'This novel is based on the screenplay of the four-hour mini-series Eureka Stockade written by Tom Hegarty.' Fictional account of rebellion in the Australian goldfields. Based on the television series ,this book captures the spirit of Australia's wild gold mining past.; 003172; Ex-Library Usual stamps/marks; 8vo .

Sydney, Angus & Robertson First edition - hard cover in dust jacket On 3 December 1854 at the Eureka diggings near Ballarat, fourteen diggers and five British soldiers died in a fierce pitched battle beneath the diggers' defiant standard, the flag of the Southern Cross. The author has brought to vivid life the drama and its chief players: Peter Lalor and his patient, faithful love Alicia Dunne, Frederic Vern and Rafaello Carboni. 223 x 145mm., pp. 185, map endpapers, b/w plates, map & illust. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., rubbed top spine & back top corner. FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0207146462