Robbery Under Arms: First Edition (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Part of the Australian Classics series. First edition thus. Very near fine in like dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition Thus. 447 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light wear marks overall.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Five Mile Press, Victoria, c.2005, 1st.prtg.this ed., 8vo., hardcover, 431pp., G+ $.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book condition is very good. Spine Intact. Front and back cover clean except a minor marks on front cover. Text body clean. Book Block is clean. pages 434.

Condition: Fair. 1968. First Edition Thus. 427 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with decorations. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Black marking to top edge of text block. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Tear to top of spine. Sticker to rear board.…

Condition: Good. 1970. First edition thus. 447 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.…

lxxviii+136pp. 8vo. Paperback . Fine copy. Illustrated. First edition, edited by Richard Fotheringham.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition thus. Macmillan's Two-Shilling Series. Hard cover. Published London: Macmillan, 1928, first printing. 12mo., 506pp., plus 2pp. publisher's ads. Gold cloth with elaborate blind cover emboss, black spine titles and designs. Pages moderately age toned, bookplate on pastedown. Very good.…

First edition thus. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, o/w very good in like dustjacket slightly faded at the spine (not affecting lettering). A story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields.The Lloyd O'Neil/ Currey O'Neil publications of this series ( before the mid- 1980s) are, for the most part, better productions, in terms of paper, binding, and design than the later Angus & Robertson printings. …

Condition: Good. 1970. First Edition Thus. 447 pages. Dust jacket over black cloth. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pencil inscription and droplets to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable sunning to spine and front panel.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 432p. : plates, ports. ; 22cm. Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 427 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear and age marks to the inside page, but still a presentable copy. The Adventures Of The Marston Boys And Captain Starlight, The 'gentleman Bushranger', Remain As Fresh And Intriguing As When This Book First Appeared A Century Ago.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 432p. : plates, ports. ; 22cm. Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Rolf Boldrewood's classic bushranging novel, being a volume in the Academy Editions of Australian Literature from UQP, offering meticulously researched definitive editions of the Australian classics, comparing all early editions, to arrive at a scholarly and reliable text; presents the tale as it originally appeared in installments in the Sydney Mail (1882-83), including material cut from later book editions; extensive general introduction, explanatory notes, essays on historical background and settings, and adaptations to stage and screen; blue cloth boards with gilt titling to front and spine; mild foxing to endpapers, o.w. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper. 743pp. 8vo. Very Good. b&w illustrations (illustrator).…

Stout 8vo. xc+744pp. Original wrappers, a fine, as new, copy. First edition of this highly scholarly editing .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good, Repaired With New Endpapers In Two Volumes . Owners Name To The Fep Vol 1 Pp 367 Vol 2 Pp 366 Tauchnitz Edition Collection Of British Authors Vol 2571.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Boards a little marked, especially to rear; smudge and inscription to f.e.p.; text block very good.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps, French flaps (a little rubbed & marked, slight chipping to spine); pp. 28, [1 (colophon)], with title page vignette. A very good copy. Inscribed to prev. owner on first page 'To "one of my two listeners": - none other than Charles Keay of Moonee Ponds, best wishes Frank Clune', with author's RSM adjacent. Signed by Author.…

First edition of this vivid tale of bushranging, well-preserved in the vibrant original cloth. Boldrewood's book contains "the first thoroughly Australian characters in fiction" (ANB) and is particularly praised for its authentic rendition of outback speech. Robbery Under Arms traces the robberies, gambling, and cattle rustling of Captain Starlight, a renegade bushranger from an aristocratic English family. Amid the goldfields and bush of 1850s Australia, the two Marston brothers are swept into Starlight's adventures, with tragic consequences. Robbery Under Arms won Browne complimentary visits from Mark Twain and H. Rider Haggard, among others. Thomas Alexander Browne (1826-1915) wrote 16 novels under the pseudonym "Rolf Boldrewood", many of which were "praised for the authenticity of their scenes of life in the bush, their convincing rendition of Australian speech and character, and their lively evocation of recent historical events" (ODNB). Browne moved to Australia as a child and worked as a police magistrate and goldfields commissioner in the South-eastern territories. A newspaper clipping from 30 November 1900, exploring the origin of Captain Starlight, is loosely laid in. Provenance: Walter B. Paton (1853-1937), with his July 1890 ownership signature on the half-title. Paton, a barrister, wrote several guidebooks for emigrants to British colonies, including the South Australia handbook, with map (1908). Further down the half-title is the signature of Paton's son Victor Alexander Loftus (b. 1899), dated 11 February 1937. Sadler 261; Woolf 586. 3 vols, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front cover with blocked floral decoration in black, printed light green floral endpapers. Short pencil inscriptions to pages 2 and 291 of vol. III, reading "June 1936" and "Finished 3rd vol only 15 June 1936" respectively. Vols I & II recased, gatherings H & I of vol. III reattached. Cloth bright, light bumping and rubbing, slight lean to spines, minor separation between and within various gatherings, contents generally fresh, infrequent spots of browning: a very good copy. …