Faraway and Beyond
Adelaide, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, 1980.
Oblong quarto, x, 117 pages with numerous illustrations (mainly from photographs); the last 19 pages contain genealogical details of the eleven children of Robert James Martin McBride and Elizabeth Dunn.
Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; boards slightly bowed; an excellent copy with the very slightly chipped plain stiff celluloid dustwrapper.
The history of the McBride family and the family company, A.J. & P.A. McBride Limited, a major South Australian pastoral company controlling Wooltana, Teetulpa, Wilgena and Nepowie stations (among others). Number 38 of 350 copies signed by Phillip Affleck McBride, the Chairman of Directors (in the total edition of 1000 copies). A loosely inserted sheet of paper indicates this copy was given to Lady McBride, wife of Sir Philip Albert Martin McBride (1892-1982).
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