At Parramatta
by Anderson, Ethel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The jacket is torn among the ppine, with loss at the back; the head and tail of the spine strip have been reinforced with masking tape.It is not pretty. The front board has lifted, else a clean, solid copy. Ownership inscription on the front end paper: "LODGE, Blowering Station, Tumut NSW" On the title page: " Dearest Moreton and Honore'Ethel Anderson. "....At Parramatta appeared in the Bulletin in 1956, and is variously described as a novella and, to use a term coined by Frank Moorhouse, a collection of 'discontinuous narratives'. The two stories from At Parramatta I review below are included in Australian Short Stories, 'selected by Kerryn Goldsworthy'. The text itself doesn't say when they are set but I would guess around 1880 or earlier. The coachman is a 'murderer', and by implication a convict. Transportation to NSW ceased in the 1840s but I don't know for how long after that trusted convicts were let out as servants and labourers." (Australian Legends)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020548
- Title
- At Parramatta
- Author
- Anderson, Ethel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- F.W. Cheshire
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Australian Literature Fiction
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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.
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