Published by Sunday School Union 0, London
Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, Australia
First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gordon Brown (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Original decorated red cloth & gilt title on front cover and spine, gilt edges,Not dated- prize award plate on december 1898., 292 pp,Thirteenth black and white illustrations including frontist pieace, spine sunned and slightly frayed, a small marking on back cover., Hodgetts describes the vagaries of life on the diggings, the experiences of a pioneering family, social conditions of the day (especially in Melbourne) and the prevailing economic circumstances together with the contemporary language and speech that his literacy enabled him to capture so vividly. The exceptionally rare second edition not in Muir. Size: 8 Vo-13x18.7cm.