91 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.
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Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Research, format and presentation by Margaret Barca, Publisher's note in and about the Macarthur family. Colour illustrated frontispiece showing a colonial building. Green coloured end pages. Green coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. The stock is of a yellow hue. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with dark purple coloured titles to the front panel and yellow coloured titles to the back strip. In 1812 Anna Maria King, daughter of the former Governor of the colony of New South Wales, married Hannibal Macarthur nephew of the pastoralists John and Elizabeth Macrthur. They set sail for New South Wales where they established their home at Parramatta, "The Vineyard". This home became the centre of an active and fashionable society and to run this fashionable home Anna Maria depended heavily on a letter written by an older and sincere friend, who was older and more experienced in the running of the household; the letter (along with some additions) is reproduced in this book. A little softening of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners. Some dust marks to the top text edge. A little creasing of the dustwrapper edges with fading of the back strip. Rubbing of the panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. II, 94 ( last 3 blank ) pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Etiquette; ISBN: 0909104190. ISBN/EAN: 9780909104191. Inventory No: 0287818. Seller Inventory # 0287818
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Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 300 g; (Research, format and presentation by Margaret Barca). pp. II, 94 ( last 3 blank ); coloured frontispiece; a very good copy in dustwrapper. The only damage is the previous owner's bookplate of the front end page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; ISBN: 0909104190. ISBN/EAN: 9780909104191. Inventory No: 0267616. Seller Inventory # 0267616
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Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 300 g; (Research, format and presentation by Margaret Barca). pp. II, 94 ( last 3 blank ); coloured frontispiece; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; ISBN: 0909104190. ISBN/EAN: 9780909104191. Inventory No: 0210167. Seller Inventory # 0210167
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Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 300 g; (Research, format and presentation by Margaret Barca). pp. II, 94 ( last 3 blank ); coloured frontispiece; a very good copy in dustwrapper. Slight browning of the top edge of the pages Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Etiquette; ISBN: 0909104190. ISBN/EAN: 9780909104191. Inventory No: 0208638. Seller Inventory # 0208638
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Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Small date in ink to preliminary pages. Colour frontis. 91pages. Being a letter sent from Mrs E. of England to Maria Macarthur in the Colony of N.S. Wales in 1812. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Seller Inventory # 231352
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Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Fine -, Minimal Foxing 22.0x 12.0cms, 92pp, b/w Illusts Fine Hard Cover Mrs E sent this letter to Maria Macarthur to help her manage her household at the Vineyard (Parramatta, NSW). It simulates Mrs E's handwriting and covers notes for 'family dinners', 'social dinners', breakfasts, hints on servants, 'a tolerable sized party' etc. Very Jane Austen-ish. Seller Inventory # 120910
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Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
22.0x 12.0cms, 92pp, b/w Illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper (foxed front endpaper: Margot Gruzman's bookplate) Mrs E sent this letter to Maria Macarthur to help her manage her household at the Vineyard (Parramatta, NSW). It simulates Mrs E's handwriting and covers notes for 'family dinners', 'social dinners', breakfasts, hints on servants, 'a tolerable sized party' etc. Very Jane Austen-ish. Seller Inventory # 170780
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Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Fine -, Minimal Foxing 22.0x 12.0cms, 92pp, b/w Illusts Fine Hard Cover Mrs E sent this letter to Maria Macarthur to help her manage her household at the Vineyard (Parramatta, NSW). It simulates Mrs E's handwriting and covers notes for 'family dinners', 'social dinners', breakfasts, hints on servants, 'a tolerable sized party' etc. Very Jane Austen-ish. Seller Inventory # 005596
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Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 91 pages. illustrated. Plastic wrapper. Seller Inventory # AWOM031
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Seller: Barclay Books, York, WA, Australia
HARDCOVER. Greenhouse Publications, 1979. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by a gift inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. The d/w is very good with light edge wear and panel rubbing. Seller Inventory # 4608429
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