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John Long, London, 1937. 287 pp including index, followed by publisher's catalogue, b&w photographic plates, nice fresh copy in cloth boards.

John Long Ltd, London, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. IX, 10-288 pages, last page blank a further eight pages -- further books from publishing house, publisher's foreword and list of illustrations and index. Black and white photographic frontispiece, of author. Within text there are seven black and white photographs and one map. Yellow coloured cloth covered boards with black embossed titles to the front panel and backstrip. This is the memoirs of Leslie Robert Menzies, who went to New Zealand from his home land of America and then from there followed the gold rush to Australia. With his courage and fearlessness was put into positions of power and responsibility exploring and opening up new areas for farmlands and mineral deposits. Heavy bumping, rubbing and fraying to the book corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. Water marks to three quarters of the front panel and backstrip with a few spots to the back panel.… Read More

(London: John Long: 1937) First Edition Cl. pp. 288 and 8 Publisher's advertisments (John Long's Autumn Announcement List 1937) Illust. New Zealand; Australia (Western Australia, Centralia, etc); Africa First Edition. Good and textually very good cancelled ex-Institute copy.

London, England; John Long Limited, 1937 Hard cover, 287 pages, black and white plate frontispiece and throughout, slight fading back spine, owners name front end paper, good

London: John Long. 1937. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, sl. cocked, pp. 288, Index, 8 adverts, b/w frontis portrait, b&w plates. Light spotting to prelims and edges, otherwise clean and very good condn. Memoirs of the author on the Australian goldfields and in the north-west. 1st edition. Cloth Boards.

London: John Long. 1937. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, sl. cocked, pp. 288, Index, 8 adverts, b/w frontis portrait, b&w plates. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper, previous owner's stamp front free endpaper, otherwise clean in very good condition. Memoirs of the author on the Australian goldfields and in the north-west. 1st edition. Cloth Boards.