Yelland E M (13 results)

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ is rubbed at the edges and lightly chipped at spine ends and corners & now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details [neat stamp] to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Endpaper maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 206 pages. The story of the "shepherd boys" of 1823, Robert Rowland Leake and his brother Edward John Leake, ushers in the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first Saxon merino to arrive in Australia. R.R. Leake became the first superintendent of the Saxon merino flock imported by the South Australia Company.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. iii, 213pp, photos, references (bibliography). Looks good but completely, incorrectly laid out and some pages duplicated and some missing, unclipped wrapper is good but mild sunning. Will supply wrapper individually at reduced postage. 500g.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. This is a Gestetner-printed copy of the speech given by E.M. Yelland in 1967 to members of the Church of England Historical Society of SA. Its topic focuses on the Churches built by pioneers in the early settled districts of the colony of South Australia. Covers & Spine: front and back showing scuffing & a number of small tears along the edges and creases, there is no spine as such - the booklet has been bound by four staples along the left edge. Binding: firm throughout although the bottom staple is missing. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the size and lighter weight of this item, standard postage cost will be less than what is quoted here. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

xii+212pp. 8vo Original cloth in dustwrapper, backstrip svery slightly faded. Black and white plates. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. iii 206 pages, indexed, illustrated. The book is ex library and suffers from the usual library damage : stamps on the preliminaries, both cancelled ones and ownership ones, there is the remnant of a date due slip on the back end paper and a library pocket and accession number on the back paste down. The title has faded on the spine's jacket, which also carries a Dewey label on its tail, and a short closed tear on the back flap. These are all aesthetic issues, and if not pretty, the book remains a clean, unmarked and solid copy. "The story of the 'shepherd boys' of 1823, Robert Rowland Leake and his brother Edward John Leake, ushers in the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first Saxon merion to arrive in Australia. The sheep, brought to Hobart town on the Andromeda by Leakes' father and friends, were among the first of this breed to be sent to the Southern Hemisphere. R. R. Leake became the first superintendent of the Saxon merino flock imported by the South Australian Company. His letters, and those of his brothers, tell of their lives as squatters in South Australia; and later of his life as the owner of the vast Glencoe estate on the border of South Australia and Victoria. This is supplemented by a serie of articles written in 1903 by H. Hickmer (a brother-in-law of Robert Leake) who spent his childhood on this station near Mount Gambier in the south-eastern district of South Australia. Miss Yelland has expanded in and around the lives of the Leakes and has included a great amount of information concerning the life style of the time in the comparatively untamed colony. She has compiled a clear and foreful history of the experience, effort and success of these people and of their mammoth contribution in cultivating the wealth of Australian wool of which they were instrumental in pioneering." (front flap).

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 212pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1973. Octavo, [xii], 206 pages plus 8 pages of plates. Cloth; top edge slightly foxed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (lightly sunned, rubbed and marked). 'R.R. Leake became the first superintendent of the Saxon merino flock imported by the South Australian Company' (dustwrapper blurb).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. 272pp. A very scarce first edition. Illustrated with 6 full page plates as called for by H. L. Schindler. A little sunning to the spine. Pictorial front board. A couple of small niks to the head and tail of the spine with some assocaited rubbing. A little soiling to the rear board and spine. One corner is lightly bumped and there is slight turning in of one corner of the board. A little spine lean. A couple of pencil names and addresses to the front end paper. Light splitting to the front inner hinge, though the front board is firmly attached. Light foxing to the fore edges and half title page. The pages are otherwise clean and tight. A very good copy.

Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, (1973). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (iv, 206pp.). With b/w illusts. and endpaper maps. Associated newspaper article loosely inserted. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: A sheep farmer in the early days of Colonial South Australia he was also involved in local politics.