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Sydney Revels of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus; Being Choice and Humorous Selections from Scenes at the Sydney Police Office, and Other Public Places, During the Last Three Years (the 1850s)
de Corbyn, Charles Adam
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0725400005
- ISBN 13
- 9780725400002
- Librería
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Ure Smith Pty. Ltd, Sydney, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Frank Broadhurst. introduction. Text illustrated with contemporary sketches and Frank Broadhurst's period drawings, illustrations are halftone. Illustrated endpapers, which is showing a illustration of "going to Botany". Grey coloured boards with gilt coloured titles on the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, again showing sketches from Sydney 1850s, black coloured titles on the front panel and backstrip. "Here is a lusty, Hogarthian picture of life in the Sydney of the 1850s --- a dirty, intimate, hard drinking, evil smelling town of no more than 75,000 people and no less than 400 pubs. Swaggering gold - diggers and staggering drunks, brawling housewives and brazen harlots, pickpockets and publicans, cabbies and constables, soldiers and sailors, mistresses and maids, speak to us here in their own vivid words, faithfully preserved by Charles Adam Corbyn, a police court reporter of the day." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. There is in minor shelf wear evident on the bottom edge and the corners are slightly rubbed. On the front paste down and free front end page, there is a small piece missing 1" x .5". The front endpapers have a sun line running down the full-length of the page. There is minor rubbing of the dustwrapper and there is also some very small chipping along the top edge of the dustwrapper. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [4], 102, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Frank Broadhurst. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism; ISBN: 0725400005. ISBN/EAN: 9780725400002. Inventory No: 0100218. . 9780725400002
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- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0100218
- Título
- Sydney Revels of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus; Being Choice and Humorous Selections from Scenes at the Sydney Police Office, and Other Public Places, During the Last Three Years (the 1850s)
- Autor
- Corbyn, Charles Adam
- Ilustrador
- Frank Broadhurst
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0725400005
- ISBN 13
- 9780725400002
- Editorial
- Ure Smith Pty. Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- Sydney
- Fecha de publicación
- 1970
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Australia, Sydney, Newspapers, Social Life, History, Social Mores History; Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism; Frank Broadhurst Unbranded ISBN: 0725400005 EAN: 9780725400002 Corbyn, Charles Adam Sydney Revels of Bacchus,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Local History -- New South Wales; Social History; Journalism;
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
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