Smith Enga (19 results)

Paperback. Scattered references to Aboriginal station hands; includes portraits of Robert Kimberley, Fred Moocher, Jumbo Crow. 1986. First edition. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. pp.iv+87. 21.5cm. Illustrations. Soft covers. Good copy. Signed by the author on title page. (Originally published in 1979. Life of a child on a Western Australian farm in the 1940s. Geraldton, WA.).

Softcover (Stiff Card). Condition: As New. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st edition (limited run). This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Australia; Australian History; ISBN: 0908112408. ISBN/EAN: 9780908112401. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 1356. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.…

SOFTCOVER. 1979. First edition. A near fine, unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 108pp. 21cm. Illustrations. Soft covers. Signed (?) by author. Very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1979 SIGNED by Enga Smith Soft Cover near fine book, spine and spine edges lightly sunned. No inscription. 110 pages. Black and white illustrations by David Bornshin. David Bornshin (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. With illustrations, memories of a young girl's chilhood on a Western Australian farm in the 1940's. a very good copy; 205 x 150mm; 110 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good +. 137pp incl index of names and 11 pages of b&w photos. One of the authors has inscribed and signed "Best wishes, Enga & Bernard Smith" to the title page. 7 X 4cm piece excised from top corner of the title page. Frontis photo shows Walter and Emily Smith on their wedding day , March 12th 1918 (has 7cm closed cut to the top of the page, repaired with "invisible tape"). The book is in otherwise very good condition. Binding is square and tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by the Authors.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. 137 pages including a good number of evocative black and white photographic plates. This is a well told account of the founding of a sheep station in the North West of Western Australia. Inscribed and signed by both authors. In original attractive pictorial cream card covers.A little creased at top corner of rear cover otherwise very Good++. A nice item. REDUCED POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some foxing to foredges and end pages.Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. This is an absorbing, beautifully observed and tenderly recorded account of a young girl's childhood on a Western Australian farm in the 1940s.Enga's father had fought in WWI and was granted, through the Soldier Settlement Scheme, two thousand acres among the flat-topped hills outside Geraldton.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Signed by author. Inscribed and signed by author.Up the Carob Tree is a novel set in country Western Australia in the post-war years. Told through the eyes of a child, this is a story of a family living on the outskirts of town.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Signed by authors. A lively account of life in the Gascoyne. Walter Smith and Emily Turp left England at the turn of the 20th Century. Walter was to find employment at the Bidgemia station as a bookkeeper and storeman, before founding the Towrana sheep station.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 137pp incl 12 pages b&w photos (includes frontis photo of Walter and Emily Smith on their wedding day , March 12th 1918) and index of names. Inscribed "Best wishes Enga & Bernard Smith" to the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by the Authors.

8vo (21.5x14.5cm), paperback, 137pp. Good condition. Light wear. Bookseller's stamp at half-title. With some b&w photographs. '.about the founding of a sheep station in the North West of Western Australia and of life in an isolated bush community.'.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on front blank page. Minor marks on tail foredge. Inscribed by author. Body text and binding are still very good. This book is the family history of the Mills, Mountain and Maley families from the arrival of Fredrick and Fredericke Waldeck to the Swan River Colony in 1836. In the 1860s, the family moved to Greenough Flats near Geraldton to take up farming. The book traces the fortunes and misfortunes, the good and bad times and the sad and happy ones of numerous family members from when they first arrived through both World Wars to the 21st century. Descriptions of family and social life in often isolated and desolate areas of the state make this book an interesting read.…

SOFTCOVER. 1986. First edition. A very good copy with age tanning to the wraps and page edges. This copy has been SIGNED by the authors.

HARDCOVER. 1986. First edition. A near fine copy in illustrated boards. Only marked by a previous owners name on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. shows minor wear, clean pages.

First Edition. Pp. [iv]+138(last blank), 12 pages of photographic illustrations; demy 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards, faintly soiled; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Hesperian Press, Perth, 1986. First edition. *'A lively account of life and living in the Gascoyne - of Walter Smith and Emily Turp who left England about the turn of the century, their meeting and the raising of a family in the Australian bush' [cover blurb].…