Item #118101 Across Unknown Australia. [A Thrilling Account of Exploration in the Northern Territory of Australia (cover title)]. Michael TERRY.
Across Unknown Australia. [A Thrilling Account of Exploration in the Northern Territory of Australia (cover title)]

Across Unknown Australia. [A Thrilling Account of Exploration in the Northern Territory of Australia (cover title)]

London, Herbert Jenkins, February 1926 [second impression]/ November 1925.

Octavo, 311, [1] (blank), [8] (publisher's catalogue] pages with a map plus 40 plates.

Green cloth lettered and ruled in black; cloth a little marked and rubbed, lightly worn at the corner tips, and flecked (moderately affecting the wide black rule on the front panel); edges and endpapers lightly marked and foxed; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy.

Signed and dated (12 December 1928) by the author on the title page, with a contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown (T.W. Adams, 4 January 1929). An account of eighteen months spent driving an ancient tin lizzie from Winton to Broome, much of it across trackless country. The author's first book. McLaren 15917.

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