Search Results: grif a story of australian life by b l farjeon

Hutchinson & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1898. 17th Edition. 355 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Slight cracking to gutters and hinges with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout.Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Grif: A Story of Australian Life.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Used:Good.

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(London: Hutchinson and Co.: 1898) Seventeenth Edition. Hutchinson's Colonial Library. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 355, 1 blank, 6 publisher's advertisements. Edges uncut. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards worn; lacks all before title page; a good copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. First American Edition. HB. Blindstamped, pebbled blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 146 pp. Originally published in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1866 as "Grif: A Story Of Colonial Life" , the first British edition appeared in 1870. Farjeon (1838-1903) was self taught. He worked at the Nonconformist before immigrating to Australia in 1854. He went to the Victorian gold fields and started a newspaper, then went to New Zealand in 1861, where he worked on the Otago Daily Times. It was while in New Zealand that this work was written, set in working class Melbourne. Brown endpapers show moisture damage and were at some time stuck to free endpapers and were separated with consequent tearing, lacking ffep, front and rear hinges cracked but binding solid. No marks in book. Text in double column. Covers show edge wear, fraying top and bottom of spine, corners worn through to boards. A Good+ copy of a scarce early edition of this classic work by… Read More

Novel. (London: Ward and Downey: no date) Tenth Edition. Pictorial boards pp. vi, 355 and publisher’s advertisements front and rear. A Yellow Back edition. Lacks all but the top inch and a half or so of the backstrip and both inner hinges are cracked meaning that the book is detached from the boards but is otherwise in good order.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. Hardback octavo, no jacket, good plus condition overall, modern black cloth binding (gilt spine lettering, new endpapers), pages & edges notably toned, some foxing few pages, some page corners creased (one page fully creased), minor edge tears & edge loss (few pages), small hole last several pages (text complete). 146 pp. A working class novel of 19th-century Melbourne. A scarce early edition of this classic work by the prolific Victorian-era novelist B. L. Farjeon. He emigrated to the Australian and New Zealand goldfields, where this novel was originally published in Dunedin in 1868. .

Harper & Brothers. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Reading copy only. Spine torn. Hinges cracked. Front endpage and title page detached. Slightly dampstained. (Australia, Fiction)

London: Hutchinson & co, 1898. Seventeenth edition (hardback). 8vo, viii, 355pp, 6pp adverts. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board, gilt titling and design to the spine. Preliminary pages lightly foxed, binding slightly cocked, else this copy is in very good condition.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. Second edition. Hardcover. Good +. Novel set in Melbourne, by the English novelist and journalist who immigrated to Australia in 1854, worked in the Victorian gold fields, started a newspaper, then moved on to New Zealand in 1861, where he worked on the Otago Daily Times. 8vo, 146pp. Printed in double columns. Half brown leather and red marbled boards, rubbed at edges; endpapers show where the book was wrapped in brown paper in the past. From the library of G.R. Wiley, who amongst other occupations, was a book dealer in Bethel Hill Maine. Bound by Dresser McLellan &Co, Portland Maine, with their printed red label laid down at front paste down.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1898.. Reprint; 8vo; pp. viii, 356(last blank), 6 pages advertisements; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, hinges weak, name on half title, good copy. Popular novel depicting a poor family living in inner-city Melbourne towards the end of the nineteenth century. Farjeon was an English-born writer of Jewish descent who spent seven years in Australia during his early career as a journalist.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9.