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THE AUSTRALIAN AND CALIFORNIAN GOLD DISCOVERIES, AND THEIR PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES; or, An Inquiry Into the Laws Which Determine the Value and Distribution of the Precious Metals
Edition: Facsimile edition.
New York: Greenwood Press, (1969). Hardcover - "With Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries in a Series of Letters." Folded chart as frontispiece. A facsimile reprint of work originally published in 1853 by Oliver & Boyd. xiii, 279 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spine (lettering slightly dulled), no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 86124More details Price: $24.50 -
AROUND THE WORLD WITH MARK TWAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arcade Publishing, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 100 years after Mark Twain, 59 years old and deeply in debt, set out on a world-wide lecture tour, boarding a night train from Elmira to Cleveland on July 14, 1895, Cooper set out to retrace Twain's footsteps and the result is the first full-length book treatment of this journey since Twain's own. Twain's trip took him across North America and to Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa. Based on journals, letters and newspaper accounts, this is a combinationof travel writing, social history, historiography and biography. Photographs, extensive notes, references, index. 420 pp. ISBN: 1-55970-5221.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (faint embossed stamp of prev owner)
Book ID: 29106More details Price: $22.00 -
THE LOST MEN: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66924More details Price: $18.50 -
MINIMUM OF TWO: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this prize-winning Australian author. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-689-11978x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35823More details Price: $25.00 -
MINIMUM OF TWO: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this prize-winning Australian author. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-689-11978x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38517More details Price: $25.00 -
BEREFT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: SilverOak, (2012). Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning Australian writer. "The year is 1919 and the Great War has ended. Sergeant Quinn Walker - with a damaged body and soul from his wartime experiences - decides to return home to the small and desolate town of Flint, Australia, to set right the past. Ten years earlier, he had fled following the horrific rape and murder of his beloved younger sister Sarah - a crime that everyone, including his family, believed Quinn committed. When he arrives on the outskirts of Flint, Quinn learns the town has not escaped the deadly flu epidemic sweeping the globe." Winner of the Indie award for best Australian novel, nominated for the Miles Franklin award. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-1402798139.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75337More details Price: $18.00
