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Harvester Town, The Making of Sunshine 1890 - 1925
by Ford, Olwen
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0959598944
- ISBN 13
- 9780959598940
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Sunshine, Victoria : Sunshine and District Historical Society Incorporated, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Quarto. Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges all neat and clean Card covers have some slight edge wear, some slightly bumped corners, and some rubbing on the covers Traces the rise and fall of the township of Braybrook Junction in the boom and bust years of the 1880s-1890s including local effort to get basic community facilities. Next the town became the base of Australia's leading manufacturer H.V. McKay, a key player in national issues and overseas trade and the town was then renamed Sunshine. B & W photos and B & W illustrations
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55114
- Title
- Harvester Town, The Making of Sunshine 1890 - 1925
- Author
- Ford, Olwen
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0959598944
- ISBN 13
- 9780959598940
- Publisher
- Sunshine and District Historical Society Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- Sunshine, Victoria
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 362
- Keywords
- Australian History - Victoria Sunshine, harvester
- X weight
- 900.000 kg
- Size
- Quarto
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Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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