Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and the Ballads
by Various
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0207143021
- ISBN 13
- 9780207143021
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Angus and Robertson Publishers, Sydney, 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Percy Lindsay. potted biography of Percy Lindsay. Illustrated endpapers, being the publishing house's initials repeated many times over in dark and light green. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white illustrations by Percy Lindsay. Illustrated front cover, again by Percy Lindsay, with dark green titles to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, again by Percy Lindsay, with dark green titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. An anthology of Australian bush literature and poetry from the first half of the 20th century and last half of the 19th century. " In the 1920s Angus & Robertson Publishers launched an inexpensive range of books in the Platypus series, and Percy Lindsay was the happy choice of artist to design many of of the dust jackets for the series. The original watercolour illustrations were recently unearthed in an old, brown-paper parcel from the company archives. The string untied, the pictures were revealed and the office was filled with the irresistible images of those golden days of outback Australia. Here were light-hearted pictures of drovers and shearers and squatters' daughters, lively scenes of bushranging and gold-rush days and subtle landscapes of the wide brown land. This book brings them all together, Inside the covers for the first time, and along side many of the sketches, stories and poems they originally illustrated. " -- from the front fold over panel blurb. A little rubbing of the back strip edges and of the lower book edges. Some bumping to the lower book corners. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with fading of the back strip and to other side. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. VI, 98 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Percy Lindsay. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Australia; Art & Design. ISBN: 0207143021. ISBN/EAN: 9780207143021. Inventory No: 0127040. . 9780207143021
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0127040
- Title
- Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and the Ballads
- Author
- Various
- Illustrator
- Percy Lindsay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0207143021
- ISBN 13
- 9780207143021
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Poetry -- Literature -- Australian -- Anthology, Percy Lindsay -- Artist Poetry; Australia; Art & Design. Percy Lindsay Unbranded ISBN: 0207143021 EAN: 9780207143021 Various Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and the Ballads
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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