Randell John Ormond (7 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Trade Edition. 116pp, index, bibliography, folding chart, folding maps, folding plan, errata slip. Or tan cloth with building blindstamped on front presented in light card slipcase. SIGNED by author on title page. Prev owners bookplate on slipcase, Kimbolton written in pen at top of slipcase. Single letter (S) written on first blank page. The story of a Victorian sheep station from iots first settlement in 1838 as part of a much larger lease from the Crown; its severance from the lease to become a seperate sheep run; its gradual conversion to a freehold estate; the subdivision for closer settlement and its ultimate reacquisition by the Crown 122 years later for the construction of the Eppalock weir. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

8vo; pp. 116; 4 folding illustrations, 11 other illustrations, bibliography index; original cloth (no dustwrapper issued), gift inscription, otherwise a near fine copy. A story of a Victorian sheep station from its first settlement in 1838, its gradual conversion to a freehold estate, its subdivision, its re-acquisition by the Crown 122 years later for the construction of the Eppalock weir.

8vo; pp. 116; 4 folding illustrations, 11 other illustrations, bibliography index; original cloth (no dustwrapper issued), a near fine copy. A story of a Victorian sheep station from its first settlement in 1838, its gradual conversion to a freehold estate, its subdivision, its re-acquisition by the Crown 122 years later for the construction of the Eppalock weir.

116pp. 4to. Original quarter calf with raised bands, contratsing title label, and cloth with blind stamped decoration. A fine copy in plain white slipcase. Number 80 of a deluxe edition of 100, signed by the author. Includes folding maps and plans.

8vo, 116pp. Duotone plates, folding maps & elevation plan of homestead. A near fine hardback copy quarter bound in leather with mustard cloth, blindstamped motif of homestead on front. Limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by the author of which this is copy no. 100. . The story of the Victorian sheep station from first settlement in 1838 as part of a Crown lease, to its conversion to a freehold estate and its eventual reacquisition 122 years later.

Pp. [iv]+116, 11 plates, 4 folding plans (2 coloured), bibliography, index, errata slip tipped-in at front; ochre buckram, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind, the bottom fore-corner of upper board lightly bruised; within plain card slipcase; Queensberry Hill Press, Melbourne, 1976. First trade edition. *The story of a Victorian sheep station from its first settlement in 1838 to its reaquisition by the Crown 122 years later for the construction of the Eppalock weir.

First Edition. Pp 236+[6], coloured frontispiece portrait plus 32 black & white plates, 11 maps (7 folding), 3 documents loosely inserted in pocket at end, bibliography, index, errata slip loosely inserted; small cr. 4to; qr. brown morocco, contrasting green and dark brown gilt leather titling pieces, raised bands, brown cloth, upper board decorated in gilt (lightly rubbed); original glassine wrapper; top edge of leaves lightly soiled, bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown; Queensberry Hill Press, Melbourne, 1977. First edition, being one of 775 copies signed by the author. *One of the loose inserts is a facsimile of a previously unrecorded early printed pamphlet by John Hunter Patterson on the Australian aborigines. Signed.