Black billy tea: New Zealand ballads by Joe Charles ISBN 13: 9780723306566

Whitcoulls. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Very Good dust jacket. Spine cracking. (Literature, Poetry, Folklore, Ballads)

Whitcoulls, 1981-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Dust jacket and edges shows minor shelf wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Pages are clean and intact.

New Zealand: Whitcoulls, 1981. Ballads about gold-diggers, swaggies, shearers, drovers, rouseabouts and sailors. Tales collected from old timers by a South Island Farmer and turned into ballads often celebrating aspects of rural life in New Zealand during the early and middle parts of the twentieth century, many celebrating the moonshiners in the Hokonui Hills were one place where well-hidden stills made a wide range of whiskies of varying quality. CONDITION Green hardback (unworn) 96 pages with sketch illus throughout by Jean Oates. Copy is as new apart from slight musty odour and toning to eps. DJ unworn. #New Zealand History#. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.