Pioneer Women of the Bush and Outback Hardcover - 1990

Lansdowne Press / Lifetime Distributors, Willoughby, New South Wales, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. photographic end pages, in sepia, with many black-and-white photographs, and contemporary colour photographs throughout the book. Includes chapter notes, bibliography, and index. Photographic laminated boards with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip Photographic illustrated dust jacket with a patchwork border, on the front panel, and the full quilt on the back panel, unfortunately marred by the barcode. Black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "So soon after the Australian bicentenary, and in the wake of numerous historical works on the people of the bush and outback it may seem presumptuous to offer another account. Yet, of all the published works, none deals exclusively with the lives of ordinary women or reveals their lifestyles in detail, through archival and family photographs and records, as this book does." -- page 9 . Rubbing of the book edges and panels and the top with a a few marks to the panels. Chipping of the lower back strip edge. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front end page. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with some creasing of the back strip edges. Fading of the back strip and top dustwrapper edges with a few marks to the verso. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 256 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 0701828013. ISBN/EAN: 9780701828011. Inventory No: 0287666. . 9780701828011