Their Chastity Was Not Too Rigid: Leisure Times in Early Australia Tapa dura - 1979

Australia: Longman Cheshire, 1979. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Rubbing to edges of boards and spine. Slight fading to D/J spine with some rubbing.

Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 378 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Some light rubbing is apparent on bottom of boards. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. In the years immediately after the First Fleet sailed into Botany Bay in 1788, the main concern of the colonists, both free and convict, was to establish a foothold on what was then an inhospitable continent. Although people had to devote the greater part of their time and energy to ensuring the survival and material welfare of the settlements, the colonist soon established… Leer más

Longman Cheshire , Melbourne, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Size: 9"-10" Tall. Previous owner's name in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Australian History; ISBN: 0582714567. ISBN/EAN: 9780582714564. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 29108. . 9780582714564

Longman Cheshire, 1980. Book. Good. Hardcover. hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy but with a white mark to the top edge of the upper board, thus good only. The text is clean and unmarked, the dust jacket chipped at the head of the spine and strengthened to the verso, colour frontis, b&w plates, 378pp.

Melbourne Longman Cheshire ; Terry Hills N. 0. Hardcover. 8vo hardcover 378pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. .

Reed. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0582714567 . Endpapers lightly foxed. Jacket lightly rubbed on edges ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 378 pages .

Melbourne; Longman Cheshire; 1979. hardcover in very good condition, dustwrapper a little worn on edges. 378pp

Melbourne Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. 1979. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 378 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Longman Cheshire-Reed, Melbourne, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. pp. xii, 378; colour frontispiece, 51 black-and-white illustrations in text, notes, bibliography, index; illustrated dustwrapper. "In the study, the first to be devoted to leisure time activities in early colonial life, the author shows, selectively, the significance of particular forms of recreation for this emerging society. The sexual imbalance had a deep and enduring effects of recreation in early Australia. In this essentially male society with mostly male recreations, what place did women have? David Collins puts the view that "the chastity of the female part of the settlement was never so rigid" that the ultimate rigour of the law need be enforced against sexual offenders;" Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1.… Leer más

Reed, 1979. Hardcover. Good.