The Land of the Sun
London, Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.
Octavo, 303 pages plus a frontispiece and 11 plates and a folding map.
Decorated cloth; extremities very slightly rubbed and bumped; spine lightly tanned; edges and endpapers very slightly foxed; paper headbands creased and torn; pencilled ownership details on the front free endpaper; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little creased, chipped and torn with slight loss.
A trip to Queensland; not least rail, mining and sugar. Edwin James Brady (1869-1952), journalist and writer; 'His interests were wide-ranging: he attempted to establish a south-coast railway, timber-mills, and gold-mines; to grow medicinal plants; to sell a mechanical voting machine; to set up a commercial publishing venture with Randolph Bedford, and a co-operative for some of Melbourne's unemployed; but he continually reverted to publicity work and journalism' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
Item #141426
Price (AUD):
$125.00