Joadja Creek: The shale oil town & its people, 1870-1911 de Leonie Knapman - 1988-01-01

Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1988. 176pp, 16pp of colour photos (Joadja Creek today [1988]), illustrated throughout with b/w photos, two sketch maps, three appendices, index. Black cloth in jacket. Light edgewear to jacket, with compliments slip of an engineering company taped in at front, light foxing to top edge. The Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company prospered for 30 years, until its liquidation in 1911 when its closure left Joadja Creek a ghost town. The book, with its hundreds of photographs, conjures up the valley when it was prosperous: the miners, their families, the village. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.