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Australian Gossip and Story: Reprinted from the Sydney Stock and Station Journal
by The Globe Trotter (Robert McMillan)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Sydney, NSW, Australia: William Brooks & Co, 1895. Hardcover. Good. 165pp; Rebound in blue buckram boards with gilt titling to spine, original card covers cut out and glued to interior pages, repairs to a few pages, minor foxing to some pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Inscribed by Author. From Preface: "The stories herewith were written for the pastoral readers of the Sydney Stock and Station Journal. They have rendered that paper very popular, and we now send them forth with a blessing to the kindly criticism of a larger constituency. They are not the children of a leisured literary life, but they are the work of a busy journalist." Topics include: Sorrows of Childhood; Courting Days; Shereefa of Wazan; A Cow's Front Teeth; Australian Progress; Crabs; Pigs; Pearls; much more. Illustrated.
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- Book Happy Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015258
- Title
- Australian Gossip and Story: Reprinted from the Sydney Stock and Station Journal
- Author
- The Globe Trotter (Robert McMillan)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Brooks & Co
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Date Published
- 1895
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- australia sydney journalism gossip news agriculture livestock
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- Journalism;
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- Spine
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- Rebound
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Inscribed
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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