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Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1940. VII, 332pp., last 3 blank, foreword by author. Text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Front and rear endpages illustrated with maps, smaller; of Australia and area referred highlighted, the larger; more detailed map. Red boards with black writing on front panel: an illustration and edging and black writing on the spine. Apart from the presentation plate to daemon onto the right-hand margin of the front free end page, and of the "usual" foxing of the edges of the text block, this is a very good copy, lacking only the dust jacket. The photographs within are bright and clean as is the text. In this book Ion Idriess looks over the shoulders of the mounted police, as they do their job of policing the Australian 'wilds', Northern Territory and Northern Western Australia in the 1920s and 30s.. 13th Edition. Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Australiana.