Pp. xii+140(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus one plate; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine blocked in white and lettered in brown, the boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; text block faintly browned, a little light foxing; H. Pole & Co., Brisbane, 1963. First edition. *The..... 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
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