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Book Condition: Used Good
Seller: Book Happy Booksellers

United States
About 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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