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Melbourne: Macmillan, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. Vii, 213 p. 140 x 210 mm. Very Good, a few marks and a bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper, no text annotations - a nice copy.

Ives Washburn, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1950 [1st edition]; 140 x 210 mm, 316 pp, Hard Cover - near Fine (corner bump, paper lightly age-toned) in a VG dustwrapper that has a few small edge tears and nicks - overall a very nice copy. From the dustwrapper: ThIs is the story of how the editor of a famous country weekly looks at his job of reporting the doings of an American community. No one who reads this book will fail to understand why the Vineyard Gazette of Edgartown, Massachusetts, has won the respect of newspapermen everywhere, as well as the devotion of its readers. It is a book rich in anecdotes of the affairs of an island people. The doings are comical and tragic, exciting and just commonplace, reported in writing of the highest quality and with an editor's sure sense of their interest for his readers. As a New York Times editorial put it, ""Not all of our thousands of country weeklies can have the salty tang of The Gazette, nor is it likely that many country editors can have Mr. Hough's… Leer más

Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. 180 x 250 mm, xxxix, 243 pp; dissenting report, 51 pp; reservation by Senator Kernot, 40 pp; appendices, 179 pp. Soft Cover - Fine. Note: the net weight of this volume is 963 g (approx. 1.25 kg packaged), so extra postage may be required for destinations outside of Australia.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2001. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 165 x 240 mm,viii, 438 pp. Hard Cover - Fine in a near Fine dustwrapper that has a little edge wear and a crease on the inside front flap. [No names, stamps, stickers, labels or annotations - pristine!]

Adelaide, Rigby, 1966; 258 pages. The story of one of Australia's iconic newspapers that, in its day, encapsulated the larikin spirit that once pervaded Australia. A Very Good copy, hard cover cloth binding that is tight, straight and clean with very light edge wear and lightly age-toned edges, in a dustwrapper that has a few marks but has not been price-clipped. No names or annotations - a nice copy of this classic newspaper history. From the dustwrapper: Championing lost causes, vehement on serious issues, but alive with jokes and cartoons, ""in the thirty-two years of its life Smith's punched more noses and raised more belly laughs than the rest of the papers in Australia combined."" The story of one of Australia's best loved papers – sensational and spectacular – told in a racy style by a man for many years intimately associated with it. An entertaining summary of years of entertainment."

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1995. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 130 x 195 mm, 282 pp. Soft Cover. This copy is remarkably well preserved and appears unread - with no no spine creasing. The paper is gently age-toned (as you would expect), the spine is sunned and there is a light but fairly unobtrusive bump mark to a top corner of the back cover. There are no names, stickers, stamps, labels or annotations present - an excellent collectable copy of this relatively scarce classic example of Australian journalism.