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Hobart: Blubber Head Press., 1988. xviii, 251pp, index, bibliography, notes/references, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Maroon cloth in jacket. Ex-public library with expected stamps etc (inc discard stamp), but otherwise a decent copy. Local history of an old working class residential district on the lower reaches of the Hobart Rivulet, regarded around the turn of the 20th century as the city's worst slum. The district's economy was largely dominated by the nearby Old Wharf.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Small 4to. Ex-Library.

Blubber Head Press, Hobart 1988. 24.0 x 17.0cms, 252pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper This is a history of Hobart's low-lying, flood prone closely-settled working class district, whcih stretched from Sackville Street behind the Thetare Royal, down to the Huntr Street warehouses and the colony's Old Wharf. Scarec title.