The Man from Oodnadatta [Signed]
Plowman, R.B. [Robert Bruce]
Sold by Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Used - Hardcover
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Add to basketSold by Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
AbeBooks Seller since 1 March 2010
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author in black ink on title page in the year of publication: "Yours sincerely, R. Bruce Plowman, 3.4.33". With foreword by Professor Walter Murdoch. Uncommon FIRST EDITION, with 1933 to both title page & copyright page & no later printing dates. Illustrated with 9 b&w plates, including frontispiece, as issued (18 photographs on 9 plates). With 2 maps as front endpapers. Includes 26 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Writer and Presbyterian minister, Robert Bruce Plowman (1886-1966), "was born in Melbourne in 1886. He was educated at the South Melbourne State School until the age of 12 and later at Scotch College. Between 1912 and 1917 he worked as a volunteer for John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission. He was ordained for the purposes of the Presbyterian Church and licensed to baptise, marry and bury. Plowman worked as itinerant minister in South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory, including Beltana, Birdsville and Oodnadatta. He died in Melbourne in 1966. Plowman was in poor health for much of his life and it was while recovering from illness that he started to write novels based on his experiences in Central Australia. His published works include The Man from Oodnadata (1933), Camel Pads (1933), The Boundary Rider (1935) and Larapinta (1939)." This copy includes a contemporary NEWSPAPER REVIEW of the book laid in (see photos). Printed in Australia. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with black lettering to front board & spine. No dustjacket (all that remains is the inner front flap, which has been pasted to verso of ffep). NOTE: A GOOD COPY ONLY. Handling wear, cocked, former owner's name in black marker to ffep, mild marginal foxing, front hinge split (but holding), otherwise a clean tight solid hardcover copy. Internally VG with all plates clean & complete. xv + 320pp + 26pp ads. Uncommon first edition, scarce signed copy. RARE. SB-38.
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