FAREWELL TO OLD ENGLAND - A Broadside History of Early Australia
by ANDERSON, Hugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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East Victoria Park, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide, Rigby first edition - h/c in d.j. To produce this book, Anderson collected hundreds of broadsides - the printed songs that used to be hawked about the streets - and made a selection of the most interesting of them. To these he has added contemporary passages from diaries, letters, and other sources, creating a most readable story of the convicts, bushrangers, goldminers, and other colourful characters who were the subjects of the broadsides. 220 x 143mm., pp. 212, biblio., notes, index of songs. Hardcover in dust jacket. VG/VG
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- Bookseller
- EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33afe5445c07954c30c95456
- Title
- FAREWELL TO OLD ENGLAND - A Broadside History of Early Australia
- Author
- ANDERSON, Hugh
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- first edition - h/c in d.j.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adelaide, Rigby
- Date Published
- 1964
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Glossary
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- Biblio
- The Greek root for a variety of words referring to the book, such as bibliography, bibliomania, etc. Also, one of the world's...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...