The Australian alternative by Laura E Faulk - 1975

acceptable. hardcover. dust jacket wear. spine is cracked. soiled dust jacket. bent cover corners.

New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. Copyright is 1975. 183+ pages. Dust jacket shows slight wear at a couple of corners. Jacket remains bright and clean, and is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve.

New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House Publishers, 1975. Book. New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Rochelle, NY, 1975. First edition. 8vo. Copper-brown cloth with maroon lettering embossed on spine, blind stamp on front board, illustrated with map and two black and white photographs, 184 pp. The first candid book about moving to Australia; the Faulks reveal the good and the bad and refrain from painting the continent as the Promised Land. They find that it is indeed a place to get away from it all, for the newspapers and TV commentators concentrate almost exclusively on internal affairs. People wear out their cloths, take care of their automobiles and do not allow houses to go to ruin. Natural resources are conserved because people, by and large, do not have that stage of affluence that allows planned obsolescence to become a way of life. Yet our problems are their problems and the problems are growing there, too. Minor soiling and ¼" flat… Read More

New Rochelle, N. Y. : Arlington House, 1975. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 183 pages; Description: 183 p. , [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Faulk, Laura E. Faulk, Odie B. Australia--Description and travel.