Cobbers: A Personal Record of a Journey from Suffolk, in England, to Australia, Tasmania and Some of the Reefs and Islands in the Coral Sea Made in the Years 1930, 1931 and 1932

by Wood, Thomas

Fourth Australian Impression

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Book description: London, Melbourne: Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press, 1948. 288 pgs. Frontis photo of "koala or native bear". DW, now protected, is sunned and torn, esp. along the spine, but not price clipped. Book covers are worn, but interior is clean and tightly bound. Bookseller's sticker to fep. Endpapers have decorative map of Australia. "Cobber. Australian Slang. Companion, mate. From the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary." NB: The title notwithstanding, Tasmania was, as it is now, a part of Australia. And koalas are not bears.. Fourth Australian Impression. Cloth Over Boards. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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