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Melbourne: Lloyd O'Neill Pty. Ltd., 1970. 615 g.; IV, 350 pages, last three pages blank, intentionally, publishers' note, introduction by author. Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and a slight fading to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning and stains to the text block edges. Previous owners and name to the free front end paper. Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound), being a reproduction of "The Artist with Aborigines near the Mouth of the Victoria River, Northern Territory'', by Thomas Baines, with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little rubbing increasing to the dustwrapper edges and fading to the backstrip. There is a small closed tear to the top left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel. This book was first published in the 1840s under the pseudonym Giacomo di Rosenberg. The author, who himself was a convict, tells of the reality of what it was like to be a convict in the early settlement of New South Wales. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition.. Reprint. Red Boards. Good/Good. 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Novel -- Australia.