Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1896 olive green cloth rubbed to extremities, gilt titled spine dulled, some soiling and staining, corners starting to fray, covers disbound and text block loose on cords, top edge gilt, lacks fep, half title detached, printers imprint page at rear, xii 333pp+ frontis and plates + 16pp adverts ( dated Oct 1896) title page states Fifth Thousand, some pages detached, plates detached and edge worn with small splits, A BINDING COPY, swag-man stories and tall tales etc. reprint. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Mahony. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

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Bookseller: Fortuna Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 008531
Title: While the Billy Boils
Author: LAWSON Henry
Illustrator: Mahony
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: reprint
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Place of Publication: Sydney
Date Published: 1896
Keywords: Yarns outback Tales Australiana Australian Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: AUSTRALIA & PACIFIC;

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Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...