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Sydney Revels of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus; Being Choice and Humorous Selections from Scenes at the Sydney Police Office, and Other Public Places, During the Last Three Years (the 1850s)
by Corbyn, Charles Adam
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0725400005
- ISBN 13
- 9780725400002
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Ure Smith Pty. Ltd, Sydney, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Frank Broadhurst. introduction. Text illustrated with contemporary sketches and Frank Broadhurst's period drawings, illustrations are halftone. Illustrated endpapers, which is showing a illustration of "going to Botany". Grey coloured boards with gilt coloured titles on the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, again showing sketches from Sydney 1850s, black coloured titles on the front panel and backstrip. "Here is a lusty, Hogarthian picture of life in the Sydney of the 1850s --- a dirty, intimate, hard drinking, evil smelling town of no more than 75,000 people and no less than 400 pubs. Swaggering gold - diggers and staggering drunks, brawling housewives and brazen harlots, pickpockets and publicans, cabbies and constables, soldiers and sailors, mistresses and maids, speak to us here in their own vivid words, faithfully preserved by Charles Adam Corbyn, a police court reporter of the day." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. There is in minor shelf wear evident on the bottom edge and the corners are slightly rubbed. On the front paste down and free front end page, there is a small piece missing 1" x .5". The front endpapers have a sun line running down the full-length of the page. There is minor rubbing of the dustwrapper and there is also some very small chipping along the top edge of the dustwrapper. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [4], 102, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Frank Broadhurst. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism; ISBN: 0725400005. ISBN/EAN: 9780725400002. Inventory No: 0100218. . 9780725400002
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- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0100218
- Title
- Sydney Revels of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus; Being Choice and Humorous Selections from Scenes at the Sydney Police Office, and Other Public Places, During the Last Three Years (the 1850s)
- Author
- Corbyn, Charles Adam
- Illustrator
- Frank Broadhurst
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0725400005
- ISBN 13
- 9780725400002
- Publisher
- Ure Smith Pty. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Australia, Sydney, Newspapers, Social Life, History, Social Mores History; Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism; Frank Broadhurst Unbranded ISBN: 0725400005 EAN: 9780725400002 Corbyn, Charles Adam Sydney Revels of Bacchus,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism;
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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