TALES OF THE CONVICT SYSTEM.
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'. Item #125289
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