The Fatal Shore. A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868. by Hughes. Robert - 2001

Collins Harvill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0002173611 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Edgewear and minor tears to d/j. ; 9.5 X 6.5 X 2.1 inches; 688 pages .

London. The Folio Society. 1998 1st. Hardback. Size 10 x 7 inches. In illustrated orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. With black hard card slipcase. In very good condition with very good slipcase. Some shelf wear to slipcase. 643pp. Maps to endpapers. Colour illustrations. Well researched history of the transportation of convicts to Australiaduring the latter half of the 18th Century and the first half of the 19th Century.

London: The Folio Society. Bound in buckram with an illustrated front cover; maps to endpapers. 643pp., b/w & col. illus. excellent condition. Contained in a slipcase which is slightly shelf worn with a little surface damage to one side. Overseas orders may require additional postage. . As New. Hardcover. 1998.

London: Collins Harvill, 1987 VG+/VG. 8vo. original red boards gilt (a little rubbed & marked) in unpriced dustwrapper (a little rubbed & nicked); pp. xxviii (last blank), 688, with illustrations + maps. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.. Fourth Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

Lond. Collins Harvill., 1987.. (4th imp) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 688pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. The first white settlers came ashore from a British prison fleet in Botany Bay in 1788 to begin an extraordinary social experiment, to create a prison camp on the South Pacific for a criminal class.

Collins/Harvill London 1987. First UK edition. Pale blue boards, illustrated, notes, bibliography, 688pp. A good copy in like jacket.

London: The Folio Society, 1999 . Cloth. Fine. 10" by 7". Various. A lovely edition of this historical study into Australian convict transportation with illustrations and maps, in the original slipcase. First edition of The Fatal Shore, A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes in the original publisher's cloth binding and slip case. With thirty four colour illustrations on plates between pages 164 and 165, and 388 and 389. Collated, complete. Includes four maps before the introduction, and double page spread maps to the pastedowns and endpapers. This is the second printing of the new edition. In the original publisher's cloth binding and slipcase. The slipcase is in fine condition, with only some very slight bumping to the extremities. The binding is in fine condition. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Fine

New York: Alfred Knopf, 1987. Thick 8vo. pp.688 + xvii + 9p maps.Index, bibbliography,Illustrated.Grey cloth hardcover in creased dust wrapper generally very good. The epic of Australia's founding/.

London: Folio Society, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing. Orange decorated cloth, black slipcase. Near fine copy.