Search Results: The Land Boomers by Michael Cannon

Melbourne, Thomas Nelson 1976.. 336pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Frontis, profuse b/w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. A very good copy.. Newly illustrated edition.

Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1977 8vo. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & marked, a little spotting and toning); pp. x (last blank), 248 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy. Ex-libris Australian traditional folk singer Danny Spooner, with his ownership signature and marginalia.. First Thus. Soft Cover. VG.

Lloyd O'Neil, South Yarra, 1986. 409 pp including index, large octavo, tinted end-papers, b&w illustrations, fine copy in like, illustrated d/j.. Superior, illustrated edition - re-issue of 'Land Boom & Bust', originally 1000 copies.

Paperback / softback. New.

Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1986 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle sunned & toned, very occ. marks only); pp. viii, 248 (last blank), with illustrations. A near fine copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. F-.

Melbourne, V.I.C. Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1966 247 pages. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. The front endpaper and the half-title page has a name inscription from a previous owner. 336 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

Melbourne: Nelson, 1976. new edition. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 336pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., index, Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy

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

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. Boom or bust? What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s? How was it that some speculators amassed prodigious fortunes, while others went so spectacularly broke?<br />Seventy years after the events, historian Michael Cannon began sifting through thousands of records and documents, long since filed and forgotten. He pieced together an incredible trail of corruption and roguery, rarely if ever equalled in any parliamentary democracy.<br />When the bare bones of this exposé were first published in 1966, it caused an immediate sensation as the forebears of many well-known families were involved. Never before had any Australian historian been able to document such unbridled greed and over-riding ambition. Extended and revised, <i>The Land Boomers</i> is generously illustrated with cartoons, photographs and etchings of the time, and includes an introduction by the author on how he came to research… Read More

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

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

Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1976. Pp. 336, 16 coloured plates, black & white pictorial double title page and numerous text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers, appendices, sources, bibliography, index; tall cr. 4to; bleu boards, lettered and decorated in white; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Nelson, Melbourne, 1976. New illustrated edition. *Originally published by Melbourne University Press in 1966. 'The wildest economic boom and depression in Australia's history occurred during the last years of the nineteenth century. All classes of people were swept along by a tidal wave of expansion which seemed to have no limit. Great cities and suburbs were planned or partly build, stock exchanges boomed, land speculation promised endless profit, and thousands took on debts they could never repay. In the end, nearly every major bank and building society crashed' [cover blurb].