Bennett J M Introduction (4 results)

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). viii, 302 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed; light bumping/curling at edges; faint slender stain at front panel's top center. Black cloth spine; black boards. Some stains to text block edges with bottom edge stain shallowly affecting several leaves at margins; staining to top fore-edge corner of pages 213-214; fore-edge nicking to rear free endpaper; interior leaves mostly remain clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by editor David R. Davies, "About the Contributors," and Index. "Mississippi's Daily Press in Three Crises" by Susan M. Weill; "Percy Greene and the Jackson Advocate" by Caryl A. Cooper; "Jimmy Ward and the Jackson Daily News" by David R. Davies and Judy Smith; "J. Oliver Emmerich and the McComb Enterprise-Journal" by David R. Davies; "George A. McLean and the Tupelo Journal" by Laura Nan Fairley; "Ira B. Harkey, Jr., and the Pascagoula Chronicle" by David L. Bennett; "Wilson F. (Bill) Minor and the New Orleans Times-Picayune" by Lawrence N. Strout; "Hazel Brannon Smith and the Lexington Advertiser" by Arthur J. Kaul; "Hodding Carter, Jr., and the Delta Democrat-Times" by Ginger Rudeseal Carter. ISBN 1578063426.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. 522pp + index. Or red cloth in jacket. Toning to page edges, slight edge wear to jacket. Facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1863. First literary memoir by a judge of the Supreme Court. Size: 8vo.

Facsimile ed. Hardback thick, dustjacket, good condition (in very good dustjacket), top edge & fore-edge foxed, minor edgewear, minimal musty smell (may need airing). Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 522 pp. The memoir of Sir Roger Therry about his 30 years residence in New South Wales and Victoria. Originally published in London in 1863, the first edition sold out at once. A second or revised edition quickly followed, but was recalled from sale by Therry because of strong criticisms in Australia about the opinions he had expressed, such as about the transportation system, the administration of justice, and the personalities of judges. The present facsimile of the second edition makes Therry's writings more accessible, and also commemorates the 150th anniversary in 1974 of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, of which Therry was a senior judge. Introduction by J. M. Bennett, a councillor of the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS).…

Landscape quarto; hardcover, full leather with silver-gilt spine titles and endpaper maps; 120pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; slightly cocked; boards a little rubbed; light offset to the endpapers; publisher's ink stamp to the half-title page; signed in ink with an inscription to the verso of the half-title page by the author. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.…