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Australasian Book Society, Sydney, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Clem. Millward -- Dustwrapper. Introduction by publisher. Blue / grey covered boards with metallic red coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. The author took up the convict tale of horror where Marcus Clarke left off. He is the best exponent in the short story of incidents connected with the penal system. After reading his stories you are inclined to agree with the West Australian governor who said of his kingdom "that it comprised those who were in prison and those who should have been". -- front fold over blurb. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the other book edges. Light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Rubbing and creasing of the dustwrapper edges and the front panel has… Read More

Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1960. Pp. viii+206, 2 text figures; boards a trifle marked and slightly sprung, edges faintly faded; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Australasian Book Society, Sydney, 1960. First edition thus. *Collection of stories, most of which were originally published in the Bulletin in the 1890s. The author, William Astley, came to Australia as a child in 1859. His pen name was a combination of his mother's maiden name with the aboriginal word 'warung', used to denote the Sydney area.

Sydney, Australasian Book Society first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Price Warung took up the convict tale of horror where Marcus Clarke left off. He is the best exponent in the short story of incidents connected with the penal system. The transportation has left its legacy - of tight lipped comradeship, hatred of tyranny and fierce resentment of unreasoning authority. 223 x 147mm., pp. viii, 206. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, medium rubbing/wear top spine and medium rubbing on corners. NEAR FINE/VG+

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976. Pp. 198(last blank), frontispiece portrait, chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, index; dark green buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt; Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1976. Twayne's World Authors Series: Australia. *William Astley (1855-1911) was an Australian journalist and short story writer who wrote under the name Price Warung. Much of his work appeared in The Bulletin.

Sydney: "The Bulletin" Newspaper Company, 1892. First edition. Bound into a volume with two other works: The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins .... [Paltock] and The Two Admirals. A Tale. By J. Fenimore Cooper. The three works in one volume, dark green floral-textured cloth, spine lettered: Peter / Wilkins / Etc. Front cover nearly detached, ownership signature of 1899, some scattered foxing, very good. The Price Warung work is the third work in this bind-up, bound without wrappers or ads - it begins at the title page, and the final page, 193, bears an ad on the verso for a Great Hygienic Discovery. The first collection of Astley's convict tales, some of which were earlier printed in "The Bulletin". This book was issued as "Bulletin" Series, Number 2 (which would have been printed on the wrappers, not present here). Astley was a highly-regarded Australian short-story author. An uncommon book in the first edition.

Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper, 1892. Pp. [iv]+194(last advertisement); bound in later (but not recent) yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards lightly soiled, cloth wrinkled at several points; all edges sprinkled red; a little light foxing and soiling; The Bulletin Newspaper, Sydney, 1892. First edition, bound without most of the advertisements. Miller & Macartney p. 482. *Price Warung was the pseudonym of William Astley, whose convict tales were published in the Bulletin in the early 1890s. According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography: 'His surviving papers reveal that he relied heavily for his information on personal testimony, particularly from old hands of the convict days; the Bulletin claimed that in the 1890s there were 'marvellous collections of old ghosts about Old Sydney '85 and Astley was on hand-shaking terms with them all'; he also gleaned much from early Tasmanian and Sydney newspapers and from parliamentary papers'.