Search Results: grif a story of australian life by b l farjeon

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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. First American Edition. HB. Blindstamped, pebbled blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 146 pp. Originally published in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1866 as "Grif: A Story Of Colonial Life" , the first British edition appeared in 1870. Farjeon (1838-1903) was self taught. He worked at the Nonconformist before immigrating to Australia in 1854. He went to the Victorian gold fields and started a newspaper, then went to New Zealand in 1861, where he worked on the Otago Daily Times. It was while in New Zealand that this work was written, set in working class Melbourne. Brown endpapers show moisture damage and were at some time stuck to free endpapers and were separated with consequent tearing, lacking ffep, front and rear hinges cracked but binding solid. No marks in book. Text in double column. Covers show edge wear, fraying top and bottom of spine, corners worn through to boards. A Good+ copy of a scarce early edition of this classic work by… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harper & Brothers. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Reading copy only. Spine torn. Hinges cracked. Front endpage and title page detached. Slightly dampstained. (Australia, Fiction)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. Second edition. Hardcover. Good +. Novel set in Melbourne, by the English novelist and journalist who immigrated to Australia in 1854, worked in the Victorian gold fields, started a newspaper, then moved on to New Zealand in 1861, where he worked on the Otago Daily Times. 8vo, 146pp. Printed in double columns. Half brown leather and red marbled boards, rubbed at edges; endpapers show where the book was wrapped in brown paper in the past. From the library of G.R. Wiley, who amongst other occupations, was a book dealer in Bethel Hill Maine. Bound by Dresser McLellan &Co, Portland Maine, with their printed red label laid down at front paste down.