Macmillian Melbourne (13 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 16pp, 7 x 9 inches, ex-lib, '3 Connections'. KEVIN BURGEMEESTRE (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Some Tears, Marks. 1st Edition. Jacket has a few small tears as does the spine but the book is in good condition. Very Heavy book, extra postage will apply.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Jacket in Mylar Sleeve. First Edition. 80 pages. Colour illustrations. Very small mark at top of jacket, otherwise almost as good as new. Scan available.

viii+190pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, backstrip slightly faded, Black & white illustrations. A near fine copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A firm straight ex reference library book, 365 pages includes Index. Text pages spotless.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition. [36]pp, 9 x 7 inches, ex-lib. Rebecca Berrett (illustrator).

120pp. 4to. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Bookplate. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Mylar Sleeve. First Edition. 216 pages includes index. Colour photography. Small chip on jacket, otherwise a nice tight straight clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Previous Owner's Name Inscribed On The First Page, Otherwise Pages Are Clean And Bright Throughout With No Additional Markings. Slight Tanning To Page Edges And Minor Shelf Wear To The Spine Of The Book. However The Binding Is Tight And Overall The Book Is In Good Condition.…

Hard over, 266 pages, owners stamp frontispiece, good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The book is considered scarce and hard to find, primarily because it is out of print. Book condition is near fine. Dust jacket very good, has 1 minor top and 1 tear bottom on the dust jacket front. Very minor tear on the back bottom middle. Spine intact. Text body is clean & unmarked throughout the book. Book block is clean & unmarked all sides of the book. Book boards are clean & unmarked front and back of the book. Over-all a great and neat copy of the book. Extra charges for over-sea shipping as exceed 500grams. Actual weight is 0.657. Diary of a Welsh Swagman 1869-1894 is the real-life colonial journal of Joseph Jenkins, a wealthy Welsh tenant farmer who abruptly abandoned his family at age 51 to spend 25 years working as an itinerant labourer (swagman) in Victoria, Australia. This abridged and annotated volume was compiled by his grandson, William Evans, after the diaries were discovered in a Welsh attic 70 years after Jenkins' death. The Core Narrative The Sudden Flight: In 1868, despite being a successful farmer and award-winning poet in Cardiganshire, Wales, Jenkins left his home overnight with only his rent money due to an unhappy marriage and a battle with alcoholism. He sailed to Melbourne, arriving in March 1869.Life on the Road: For the next 25 years, Jenkins lived the grueling life of a swagman, walking hundreds of miles with his bedroll ("swag"). He worked 16-hour days as a manual farm labourer, wood-cutter, fencer, and plowman across the Ballarat, Castlemaine, and Maldon districts. The Settled Years: As age caught up with him, he used a "miner's right" to settle slightly, eventually working as a town street-cleaner and drainage worker for the Maldon council until his return to Wales in 1894.Key Themes & Historical Value Vivid Colonial Record: Unlike most working-class labourers of the era who were illiterate, Jenkins was highly educated. He meticulously documented the micro-details of rural 19th-century Australian history, including food prices, crop cycles, wages, and changing economic conditions. Social and Political Commentary: Jenkins was a progressive thinker far ahead of his time. In his daily entries, he fiercely criticized government policies, expressed deep concern over land degradation, condemned cruelty to animals, and criticized the colonial treatment of Indigenous Australians. A Poetic Soul: Writing under his Welsh bardic name Amnon II, Jenkins frequently interspersed his harsh daily realities of toothaches and exhaustion with beautiful poetry composed in both English and Welsh. Significance: The book serves as a rare, unbroken 25-year psychological character study and historical primary source. For decades, it has stood as a highly regarded textbook for Australian history students to study the realities of colonial bush.…

Condition: Gut. XIX, 595 S., 69 Textabb., 40 sw-Taf. Besitzername auf flieg. Vorsatz, einige sehr wenige Bleistiftanstreichungen, OU gebrauchsspurig Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 750 Gr.-8° , OLwd. mit goldgepr. RT , illustr. OU.

Condition: Very good. 156p. Cloth. One of the famed Melbourne great courses.