THE LIGHTS OF COBB AND CO.: the story of the frontier coaches, 1854-1924 by AUSTIN, K.A - 1967

Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of maps and diagrams, bibliography and index. Dark gold coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. For 70 years Cobb & Co. stage-coaches plied their trade in the frontier world of Australia. Started in the rip roaring days of the gold rush of the 1850s, " ... which kept pace with the lusty settlers as they thrust deep into new country. Bushfires, bushrangers, drought, dust storms, mud, boulder-strewn mountain roads, and the wide loneliness of the planes – they were all in a day's work to Cobb & Co.'s drivers as they forge the communications of a continent." – from the front fold over panel blurb.… Read More

Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of maps and diagrams, bibliography and index. Dark gold coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. For 70 years Cobb & Co. stage-coaches plied their trade in the frontier world of Australia. Started in the rip roaring days of the gold rush of the 1850s, " ... which kept pace with the lusty settlers as they thrust deep into new country. Bushfires, bushrangers, drought, dust storms, mud, boulder-strewn mountain roads, and the wide loneliness of the planes – they were all in a day's work to Cobb & Co.'s drivers as they forge the communications of a continent." – from the front fold over panel blurb.… Read More