We Came to Australia by Thomas Jenkins - 1969

Constable, London, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. acknowledgements, introduction by author, list of illustrations, 4 appendices and selected bibliography. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, author and his family . The text is illustrated with black and white photography. Gray coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The author and his family emigrated to Australia in 1965. He could not find a book that answered questions like: – What is the process for getting there?, What other houses like? What kind of schools are there?, among many others, so, he set out to write such a book, this is it! Softening of the backstrip with a little rubbing to the lower book edges. Browning to the textblock edges and faint foxing to the top textblock edge. A… Read More