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Published by Angus & Robertson,, Sydney, 1961
Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, Australia
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Original light blue cloth covers & gilt title on spine., 245 pages. illustrated. Plastic wrapper. Size: 8vo - 22x 14cm.
Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd, Sydney, 1961., 1961
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
245 pp, plates, minimal foxing upper edge, else fine copy in like illustrated d/j. By the author of "Settlers and Convicts".
Published by Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney, Australia, 1961
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Geoffrey C. Ingleton (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight overall yellowing to fabulous retro jacket showing scenes from Australian life, corners rubbed with small loss. Not price clipped (30s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 245pp. The extraordinary memoirs of Alexander Harris (1805-74), soldier, teacher and author known for his early semi fictionalised accounts of convict life in Australia. He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1825 and returned to London, England in 1841. Harris had numerous jobs including a soldier, clerk, a tutor and a timber getter. He travelled mostly around the Hunter Region, the Shoalhaven, Illawarra and Bathurst in New South Wales. In 1851 he left for the United States. He emigrated to Berlin, Ontario on the outbreak of the U.S. civil war in 1861 and died in Copetown, Ontario in 1874.