The Land Boomers

Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1976. Pp. 336, 16 coloured plates, black & white pictorial double title page and numerous text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers, appendices, sources, bibliography, index; tall cr. 4to; bleu boards, lettered and decorated in white; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Nelson, Melbourne, 1976. New illustrated edition. *Originally published by Melbourne University Press in 1966. 'The… Read more about this item

Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1977 8vo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & marked, a little spotting and toning); pp. x (last blank), 248 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy. Ex-libris Australian traditional folk singer Danny Spooner, with his ownership signature and marginalia.. First Thus. Soft Cover. VG.

Melbourne, Thomas Nelson 1976.. 336pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Frontis, profuse b/w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. A very good copy.. Newly illustrated edition.

Lloyd O'Neil, South Yarra, 1986. 409 pp including index, large octavo, tinted end-papers, b&w illustrations, fine copy in like, illustrated d/j.. Superior, illustrated edition - re-issue of 'Land Boom & Bust', originally 1000 copies.

Nelson. Melbourne. 1976 (New Illus Edition). 4to, XXII, 312pp. In protected d/w, ex cond. Explains and accounts for Aust's economic boom and depression at the end of the 19thC.

Melbourne: Nelson, 1976. new edition. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 336pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., index, Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy

Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1986 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle sunned & toned, very occ. marks only); pp. viii, 248 (last blank), with illustrations. A near fine copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. F-.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. Boom or bust? What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s? How was it that some speculators amassed prodigious fortunes, while others went so spectacularly broke?<br />Seventy years after the events, historian Michael Cannon began sifting through thousands of records and documents, long since filed… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.