History of Australian Bushranging: Volume 1 (Copy 2), (Australian Classics)
by White, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/VG
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970* Publisher: Lloyd O?Neil Pty Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear & three small impact marks to rear cover. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing coach hold-up in progress by G.Lacey. Spine somewhat faded. Now in clear protective, un-attached jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear & age to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with slight nicks. A few light scratches. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slightly dusty top & fore edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: A number of b/w prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 385 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: In the years between 1860 and 1880, dozens of bush-rangers, some bold and famous, some little more than petty thieves, rampaged across the New South Wales and Victoria countryside ? looting and murdering, bailing up travellers, harassing police, terrorising settlers. This first volume in the series recounts in vivid detail, the deeds of the early ?bush bandits?. Attracted by the fast, free life, these native-born Australians plundered the gold escorts and crowded coaches, fighting it out with police - heroes in the eyes of the public they robbed.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st thus with some minor faults. Reduced by some jacket &cover wear and age, (now in protective wrapper), to VG. See also Vol 2. from this seller.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1590
- Title
- History of Australian Bushranging: Volume 1 (Copy 2), (Australian Classics)
- Author
- White, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, thus, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- Lloyd O'neil
- Place of Publication
- Victoria Australia 385
- Date Published
- 1970-01-01
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