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Tales of the Convict System: Selected Stories of Price Warung by Warung, Price (pseud for William Astley - 1975

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Tales of the Convict System: Selected Stories of Price Warung

by Warung, Price (pseud for William Astley

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Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1975. 300pp, 600g to post, this is an odd example of an ex-lib book as the book's ingood order AND only has one borrower's stamp on the ticket. lib & cancelled stamps on book. Tales of the Convict System: Selected Stories of Price Warung - (ed by BG Andrews, a Duntroon lecturer) - William Astley (1855-1911), journalist and author under the pseudonym 'Price Warung', was born on 13 August 1855 in Liverpool, England, the second son of Thomas Astley, jeweller, and his wife Mary, née Price. In November 1859 the family of seven arrived in Melbourne and settled at Richmond, where William attended St Stephen's School, and later the Model School in Carlton. Astley began his career as a journalist when in 1875 he edited the Richmond Guardian, and for the next fifteen years he trekked over south-eastern Australia.. Paperback. Very Good/None issued. 21.5cm.
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  • Publisher University of Queensland Press
  • Place of Publication Australia
  • Date Published 1975
  • Keywords Warung Price Astley
  • Size 21.5cm

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by Warung, Price [William Astley]

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St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975. xxxvi, 300 pages, appendix: background to the stories, notes. Or green cloth in jacket. Spine sunned, shadow on front from original price sticker, light foxing to top edge. Obsessed with the inhuman monstrosities of the convict system, Astley took the outlines of history and coloured them with melodrama and farce to shock, delight, and sometimes disgust the reader. These seventeen stories reflect an attitude of the time -- that the convict was more sinned against than sinning. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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Sydney.: Bulletin Newspaper, 1892. 1st edition.. Modern red cloth binding. Original front wrapper bound in, lacks back cover, 50 blank leaves bound in at the rear of the book, apparently used to bulk up the book. . Very good, repairs and soiling to front wrapper.. 21.5x14 cm. . Scarce collection of tales of early Australia preserved in a sturdy modern binding. weight: 1.0 lb.
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Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper, 1892. Pp. [iv]+194(last advertisement); bound in later (but not recent) yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards lightly soiled, cloth wrinkled at several points; all edges sprinkled red; a little light foxing and soiling; The Bulletin Newspaper, Sydney, 1892. First edition, bound without most of the advertisements. Miller & Macartney p. 482. *Price Warung was the pseudonym of William Astley, whose convict tales were published in the Bulletin in the early 1890s. According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography: 'His surviving papers reveal that he relied heavily for his information on personal testimony, particularly from old hands of the convict days; the Bulletin claimed that in the 1890s there were 'marvellous collections of old ghosts about Old Sydney '85 and Astley was on hand-shaking terms with them all'; he also gleaned much from early Tasmanian and Sydney newspapers and from parliamentary papers'.
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