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Sydney, Ure Smith, 1975. first edition - h/c in d.j. Mary came to Sydney in 1792, a fourteen-year-old convict girl. This novel is her story, based, as far as records reveal, on fact. It portrays the lusty, bawdy days of early, rum-sodden and vice-ridden Sydney and the stranglehold the Rum Corps had on the colony. It is the story Mary, who became a legend in her own time, and of her husband and their family. 224 x 150mm., pp. 10 + 248, rubbing on bottom of boards, contents near fine in d.j. with sl. creasing top & bottom, sl rubbing, no tears or chips, v.g.