Pp. xii+140(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 1 plate; fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, the back panel slightly damp stained, backstrip a trifle faded; half-title page and frontispiece faintly damp stained, a little light foxing; H. Pole & Co., Brisbane, 1963. First edition. *The..... More
Chinese in early Victoria. Pp. xii+176(last blank), text illustrations (some full page) and maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; dark brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, the backstrip faded; a couple of spots of foxing; Melbourne University Press, 1982. First edition. More
Australia's Migrant Experience. Pp. [viii]+200, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, maps, chronology, further reading; f'cap. folio; edges of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip and top edge of back panel slightly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper; Macmillan/Australian Institute of Multicultural..... More
Pp. viii+184(last blank), text illustrations, references, index; pictorial glazed papered boards; Red Rooster Press, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. *The story of marathon walks by Chinese immigrants, from South Australia to the central Victorian goldfields, in order to avoid the provisions of a Victorian Act of 1855 which sought to drastically..... More
Stories of Migrants in Australia. edited by Louise E. Rorabacher. Pp. 206(last blank), biographical notes; top fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; free endpapers slightly offset, the half-title page faintly creased, edges of leaves lightly foxed; F. W. Cheshire..... More
Italian migration to the Northern Beaches of Sydney between the 1920s to 1970s, seen mainly through the eyes of women. [Parallel text, in English and Italian] Pp. 208+[16](list of names, maps & graphs), printed in blue & black and illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or..... More
A long journey. Pp. [vi]+138(last blank), 12 plates; med. 8vo; apricot cloth, spine lettered in white, the boards a trifle canted, bottom edges lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, the backstrip a trifle faded; a little light foxing; Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. 'In 1904, at the..... More