Author: Bruce, Mary Grant.
Title: Billabong Riders.
Description: London & Melbourne Ward, Lock & Co., 1952. 1st English stated ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket (flap price-clipped), good condition (in good dustjacket), red cloth boards, frontispiece, edges lightly foxed, rear cover jacket little marked (reverse side lightly toned & foxed, slight loss spine ends, corners slightly worn), light foxing endpapers & top title page, frontispiece slightly loose bottom edge (other pages firm), protected by removable Brodart semiarchival plastic sleeve. 192 pp. Australian adventure novel for young adults, originally published in Australia 1942. The Billabong folk ride again, this time in wild country, bringing cattle overland from the North. With them we share the droving life, its comradeships, adventures, dangers and laughter. This is a story of good horses and dogs, their owners; and the boy who found among them a new chance in life. Final book in the Billabong series (Burnet 38.5, and no. 263 bottom of spine dustjacket). Jacket cover scene: Boy named Rob working. Last title listed: Billabong Riders (last in series, published 1942). Printed in Great Britain by Ebenezer Baylis and Son, Ltd, The Trinity Press, Worcester and London.

Keywords: young adults fiction, australian fiction, historical fiction, collectible, collectable


See more books from our catalog: young adults fiction