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Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of maps and diagrams, bibliography and index. Dark gold coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. For 70 years Cobb & Co. stage-coaches plied their trade in the frontier world of Australia. Started in the rip roaring days of the gold rush of the 1850s, " ... which kept pace with the lusty settlers as they thrust deep into new country. Bushfires, bushrangers, drought, dust storms, mud, boulder-strewn mountain roads, and the wide loneliness of the planes – they were all in a day's work to Cobb & Co.'s drivers as they forge the communications of a continent." – from the front fold over panel blurb.…
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The Lights of Cobb & Co.
by Austin, K.A
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The 70 year stage-coach era in Australia. Well illustrated with B&W maps and photos, bibliography and index, 228 pp. Dustjacket unclipped but has multiple chips and tears to top (see photo).
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- Format/Binding Light Brown boards with gilt titles
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
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- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Rigby
- Place of Publication Adelaide
- Date Published 1967
- Keywords Cobb & Co., stage-coach line, K.A. Austin
- Size Octavo
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The Lights of Cobb and Co.; The Story of the Frontier Coaches 1854-1924
by Austin, K. A
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The Lights of Cobb and Co.; The Story of the Frontier Coaches 1854-1924
by Austin, K. A
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Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of maps and diagrams, bibliography and index. Dark gold coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. For 70 years Cobb & Co. stage-coaches plied their trade in the frontier world of Australia. Started in the rip roaring days of the gold rush of the 1850s, " ... which kept pace with the lusty settlers as they thrust deep into new country. Bushfires, bushrangers, drought, dust storms, mud, boulder-strewn mountain roads, and the wide loneliness of the planes – they were all in a day's work to Cobb & Co.'s drivers as they forge the communications of a continent." – from the front fold over panel blurb.…
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