Life Australian Goldfields (42 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From ancient Egypt to the modern day, people throughout history have been fascinated by gold. In the 1850s, the first gold rushes swept across Australia, changing the landscape and affecting the lives of thousands of people. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 220 pages. Illustrated. Previous owner's name. Occasional foxing fly leaf.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. slight wear cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. Due to weight extra may apply to any quoted postage Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Oblong.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Part of the Australian Classics set, bicentennial edition. Hardcover w/o jacket. Light wear on boards. Pages are unmarked but yellowed. Fraying along edge of cloth bookmark. Tulsa's largest used bookstore. Located on South Mingo Road since 1991. No-hassle return policy if not completely satisfied.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Quarto Size [approx 22x29cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with many Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 221pages. Describes the life of the people who worked the goldfields - the minutiae of daily life - from diaries and contemporary writings.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Reprint. 220 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 224pp, index, bibliography, num bw ills. Or brown cloth boards in jacket. Foxing to top edge. A pictorial examination of the history of Australian goldfields at the times of the goldrushes with particular emphasis on their social history. Size: 4to.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xx, 660pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, blind embossed design on front. 16mo. Sun-faded spine, very lightly rubbed corners and spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Endpapers tanning, previous owner's name on front free endpaper otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, loss to spine, some closed tears, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 447pp. c.21cm. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy 'Australian Classics' series. [761g].

HARDCOVER. Social aspects of life on the goldfields, the daily life of the diggers. Photographs covering period between 1850s to 1930s.  Reprint. A near fine copy only marked by light shelf rubbing to the extremities of the illustrated boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Toning on fep, caused by a newspaper article which is still present. Some spotting. Spine sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 224pp., Pictorial photographic dustjacket covered in removable protective clear plastic, brown textured boards with hint of shelf wear to bottom edge of panels & spine end- gilt text to spine, yellow eps., b/w plts. & text, full & dbl. page b/w photos, exposed webbing at pages 80-81- pages firm./ bibliog., index. In Life on the Australian Goldfields Derrick Stone and Sue Mackinnon describe the minutiae of the daily life of the diggers. The meticulously researched text quotes diaries and other contemporary writing to bring the era vividly to life. Size: Large Quarto. Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. Reprint. 4to. original pictorial boards (slightly rubbed, spine a little sunned); pp. 224, with illustrations. Heavy item (1.5 kgs), additional postage may be required. A near fine copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

224pp.4to. Original laminated boards, b/w photographic illustrations throughout. A near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Dust jacket is now in protective cover. Light fading to spine. Previous owner has signed inside front blank endpage, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Interior and binding are also very good. Robbery Under Arms was acclaimed as an Australian classic almost immediately after it appeared in book form in the late 1880s. It was praised for its excitement, romance and authentic picture of 1850s colonial life. As the first writer to attempt a long narrative in the voice of an uneducated Australian bushman, Rolf Boldrewood created a story with enduring cultural resonance. (Trove).…

224pp. Lg.4to. Original boards, in dustwrapper. B&W photographic illustrations throughout. A very good copy.

Condition: Very Good. 4to.laminated boards, hardcover. 224pp. index. b/w photos. very good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Hardback. First Edition. Previous owners name and address to inside cover. Slight mark to edge. As one of the foremost adventure stories of the Australian bush, as an insight into life on the goldfields and, above all, as the most famous story of burshranging ever written, this book well deserves its place among Australian classics. Captain Starlight, the mysterious 'gentleman bushrange', and the Marston boys, are some of the best-known characters in Australian literature. Starlight, in particular, has become an accepted part of the folklore of the bush: a colonial version of the noble outlaw. Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne), although born in London, psent almost all of his life in Australia - as a squatter, a police magistrate and a goldfields commissioner. Although he was forty before he started to write, he completed some twenty books, of whcih the most widely acclaimed is Robbery Under Arms, first published in 1881. 447 PP. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

224pp. Lg.4to. Original boards, in dustwrapper. B&W photographic illustrations throughout. A very good copy. First edition.

1st ed. Hardback large quarto, dustjacket (with flaps), very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear to covers (edges little foxed), small mark reverse side jacket, pages lightly toned, owner's name & date front pastedown. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 220 pp. Derrick Stone and Sue Mackinnon describe the minutiae of the daily life of the goldmining diggers. The well researched text quotes diaries and other contemporary writings to bring the era vividly to life. Public and private photograph libraries all over Australia have been tapped to produce the most extensive collection of photos ever put together on the goldfields of Australia. There are about 360 photos, many never published before. They cover the period between the late 1850s and the 1930s. This book is a unique and fascinating account of an important, and hitherto neglected, part of Australian history.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo 221pp., b/w plates, bibliog., index, Photographs covering period 1850 to 1940. Excellent selection from the archives with an authoritative text. Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From ancient Egypt to the modern day, people throughout history have been fascinated by gold. In the 1850s, the first gold rushes swept across Australia, changing the landscape and affecting the lives of thousands of people. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 224pp; illustrations; 300 x 210mm.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This XpressRead Cram Edition of Robbery under Arms pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Venture into the heart of 19th-century Australia with Thomas Alexander Browne's classic adventure, 'Robbery Under Arms.' Set against the backdrop of the gold rush, this historical fiction plunges readers into a world of daring outlaws and relentless pursuit. Experience the untamed Australian landscape as it shapes the lives of those caught between the law and the allure of fortune. This enduring tale captures the spirit of a nation in formation, where bushrangers roam free and the promise of gold fuels dreams and deadly conflicts. A timeless story of adventure and survival, 'Robbery Under Arms' remains a compelling read for anyone fascinated by Australia's past and the enduring appeal of the Western genre. A meticulously prepared print republication of this historical text.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Life on the Australian goldfields This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Mylar Sleeve. 1st Issue of this Edition. 224 pages, includes index. Black/white photography throughout. A firm, clean book.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Robbery under Arms | A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Australian Goldfields | Rolf Boldrewood | Taschenbuch | 640 S. | Englisch | 2018 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337497927 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…