Verlag: The Vickery & Hill Publishing Company, Augusta, Maine, 1912
Anbieter: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, USA
Magazin / Zeitschrift
Soft cover. Zustand: VG. Light gauge paper, pictorial printed wraps, sized about 11 x 15 1/2 inches, profusely illustrated including an abundance of advertisements. Covers bright and clean but for a bit of discolored rubbing along gutter, and minor toning at edges. Contributors include Charles H. Plummer (Through The Mirror, complete), Eleanor Mercein Kelly (The Privateer, Chapters I - III), Otho B. Senga (The Second Reinforcement, complete), Don Mark Lemon (The Poet, The Burglar And The Baby, complete), Alice and Claude Askew (At Cross Purposes, Chapters IV - VI, with a synopsis of previous chapters), Andrew Loring (The Tragedy In The Tower, chapters XIII - XIV, with a synopsis of previous chapters), L. G. Moberly (Christina, Chapters XV - XVII, with a synopsis of previous chapters), and Mark F. Wilcox (Found Gold, complete). From 1869 - 1942, over 70 years, Augusta, Maine was America's mail - order magazine publishing capital with some seventeen titles published there and circulation at its height reaching an estimated three million copies. Magazines were mailed to subscribers nation - wide, and the sheer volume of sales led to the opening of a new post office in January, 1890. The major publications targeted women, particularly women in rural areas, but some also included articles and stories of interest to men and children. Farm and literary magazines were other types published in Augusta. The primary focus for the majority of the magazines was family and home life, and content included down - home advice on family life, decorating, business (raising chickens, for example), personal care, health, fashion, and the latest trends. Reading material included poetry, romantic fiction, short stories, and editorials, but most prominently the magazines offered opportunity (and encouragement) for women to buy the various and sundry items advertised. Contests and competitions were part of the allure, and subscription rates were very cheap (and often not even collected) as the magazines were supported well by the advertisements. The major publishers, E. C. Allen, P. O. Vickery and John F. Hill (who later became Governor of Maine), and William H. Gannett all became very wealthy. Publications included Good Stories, Happy Hours, Hearth and Home, American Woman, Needlecraft, and Farm World, all by Vickery - Hill Publishing Company, Comfort, by Gannett, which was the most successful of the magazines, Fireside Magazine, Peoples Illustrated Journal, the Illustrated Family Herald, Thrifty Farmer, Farming World, National Farmer, Golden Moments, Sunshine, Daughters Of America, and Practical Housekeeper, all by Allen, and later Gannett who took over Allen's publications in 1891. Some of the magazines including the present number were oversized, newpaper - style, and printed in quadruple columns, on cheap paper that did not hold up over time and use, thus, copies are relatively scarce, especially the early issues. Worldcat / OCLC locates only 5 repositories. See Zuckerman, A History Of Popular Women's Magazines In The United States, 1792 - 1995.
Verlag: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, 1988
Anbieter: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australien
magazine. No Jacket. Articles on the Bicentennial, ëManning-Clarkís History of Australia: the musicalí and Humble and Sons. 80 pages VG. Light shelf wear to covers, overall very good condition.
Verlag: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, 1991
Anbieter: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australien
magazine. No Jacket. 84 pages VG. Light shelf wear to covers, overall very good condition.
Verlag: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, 1990
Anbieter: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australien
magazine. No Jacket. Articles on G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, Governor La Trobe and Hal Porter. 88 pages VG. Light shelf wear to covers, overall very good condition.
Verlag: National Gallery of Victoria, 1987
ISBN 10: 0724101276 ISBN 13: 9780724101276
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Box Hill City Council and Lothian, Melbourne, 1978
ISBN 10: 0850910641 ISBN 13: 9780850910643
Anbieter: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australien
Signiert
hard cover with dust jacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Illustrated with black and white photographs, endpaper maps. 25 cm. 270 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear, signed by the author on title page. Signed by author.
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Verlag: Box Hill City Council. 1978., 1978
Anbieter: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australien
Large 8vo, 270pp. With black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.
Verlag: Melbourne, Box Hill City Council in conjunction with Lothian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. 1978., 1978
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
Erstausgabe
8vo; pp. xiv, 270; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, notes on sources, index; dustjacket, a fine copy. . First edition.
Verlag: Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1982., 1982
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
Erstausgabe
8vo; p. xii, 184; 17 b/w. plates, 1 map, 2 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; dustjacket, a fine copy. . First edition.
Verlag: Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1995
ISBN 10: 1875606262 ISBN 13: 9781875606269
Anbieter: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australien
Softcover. 2nd Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. 188 pages. A winter's gale in 1845 - 400 died and only 9 survived. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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Verlag: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1982, 1982
ISBN 10: 0522842380 ISBN 13: 9780522842388
Anbieter: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australien
22.5 x 14.5cms, 184pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper Balfour was a politicican, businessman, newspaper owner, Riverina pastoralist, philanthropist, Presbyterian layman and the keystone of Victoria's 'wowseristic edifice'.
Verlag: Independently published, 2018
ISBN 10: 1723733709 ISBN 13: 9781723733703
Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 144 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.36 inches. In Stock.
Verlag: Hargreen, Melbourne. 1986., 1986
ISBN 10: 0949905283 ISBN 13: 9780949905284
Anbieter: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australien
8vo, 188pp. Illustrated. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Previous owners inscription.
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Verlag: Melbourne; Box Hill City Council in conjunction with Lothian Publishing Co Pty Ltd.; 1978., 1978
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
First edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xiv, 270; illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, notes on sources, index; original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket with minor discolouration, otherwise a very good copy.
Verlag: Victorian Historical Journal, Issue 247, Vol. 67 No. 1- April 1996., 1996
Anbieter: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
Paperback, 14.75x21.5cm, 176pp. Very good condition, with fold-out map loosely enclosed. Light wear. A little creased at corners. ISSN 1030-7710.
Verlag: Burgewood Books, Warrandyte, Third Edition, 2014., 2014
Anbieter: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
Paperback, 17.5x25cm, 192pp. Good condition. Light wear. A little creased at corners. Morgan's inscription penned at half-title. ISBN: 9781876425661.
Verlag: Box Hill City Council/Lothian, 1978., 1978
Anbieter: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
Small 4to, hardback, 270pp. Very good condition (light wear; flecked at edges) in very good dustwrapper (light wear). ISBN: 0850910641.
Verlag: Melbourne University Press, 1982., 1982
Anbieter: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
8vo, hardback, 184pp. Very good condition, in very good dustwrapper. Light wear only. Pictures available on request.
Verlag: Box Hill City Council/Lothian, 1978., 1978
Anbieter: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
Small 4to, hardback, 270pp. Very good condition (light wear; flecked at edges) in very good dustwrapper (general light wear; two 1cm closed edge tears). ISBN: 0850910641.
Verlag: Box Hill City Council in conjunction with Lothian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., (1978)., 1978
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
First Edition; 8vo; pp. xiv, 270; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, notes on sources, index; original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, a fine copy.
Verlag: Collingwood; Australian Scholarly Publishing; 1995., 1995
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
Second Edition; 8vo; pp. xiv, 188; numerous illustrations and maps, appendix, notes and sources, index, original stiff illustrated wrappers, inscribed by both authors on title page, bookplate, very good copy. Australia's worst civil disaster - a sailing ship stranded only 150 yards off the deserted shore of King Island, isolated by rows of reefs: victims clinging, for up to two days, to the disintegrating vessel.
Verlag: (Carlton), Melbourne University Press, 1982., 1982
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
First Edition; Demy 8vo; p. xii, 184; 17 b/w. plates, 1 map, 2 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth, spine of dustjacket faded, good copy.
Verlag: Melbourne, Box Hill City Council in conjunction with Lothian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. 1978., 1978
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
Erstausgabe
8vo; pp. xiv, 270; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, notes on sources, index; dustjacket, a near fne copy. . First edition. Siged and inscribed by author.
Verlag: Collingwood; Australian Scholarly Publishing; 1995., 1995
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
Second Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xiv, 188; numerous illustrations and maps, appendix, notes and sources, index, original stiff illustrated wrappers, fine copy. Australia's worst civil disaster - a sailing ship stranded only 150 yards off the deserted shore of King Island, isolated by rows of reefs: victims clinging, for up to two days, to the disintegrating vessel.
Verlag: Helicon, Sydney, 2004., 2004
ISBN 10: 0958678588 ISBN 13: 9780958678582
Anbieter: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australien
4to, 623pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in faded dust jacket.
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Verlag: (Carlton), Melbourne University Press, 1982., 1982
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
First Edition; 8vo; p. xii, 184; 17 b/w. plates, 1 map, 2 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth, spine of dustjacket faded, inscribed by author on title page a very good copy.
Verlag: (North Melbourne), Hargreen Publishing, (1986)., 1986
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
First Edition; 4to; pp. xii, 188; illustrated endpapers, 54 illustrations (of which some are maps), appendix, notes on sources, index; original cloth, dustjacket, spine and corners bumped, otherwise a fine copy.
Verlag: (Victoria), Hargreen Publishing Company, (1986)., 1986
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
First Edition; Lge 8vo; pp. xii, 188; illustrated endpapers, numerous b/w. illustrations throughout, maps, appendix, notes and sources, index; original cloth, dustjacket, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. Inscribed by author.
Verlag: Hargreen Publishing, North Melbourne, 1986
ISBN 10: 0949905283 ISBN 13: 9780949905284
Anbieter: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australien
Erstausgabe Signiert
hard cover with dust jacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st edition. Illustrated in black and white, illustrated endpapers. 25 cm. XII, 188 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear, gift inscription signed by both authors on title page. Signed by author.
Verlag: Wahroonga, NSW; The Helicon Press; 2004., 2004
Anbieter: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australien
First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 623; numerous b/w illustrations, some colour illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, bound in original grey cloth, title lettered on spine in gilt, dustjacket, very good copy. First Edition Limited to 2500 copies.