Author: GILBERT ROCK [IE JOHN ALEXANDER BARR]
Title: Colonists. Illustrating goldfields and city life in Australia between 1851 and 1870.
Description: Dunedin, J. Wilkie. 1888, First Edition. Half-Leather, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, 151 pages. Ex-New Zealand General Assembly Library with a gilt library stamp on front cover and spine, leather rubbed on edges and corners. a few mm from the middle of the top of pages 139-151 torn out, well away from text, creasing at bottom of pages 19-26. Rare novel published by Dunedin lawyer John Alexander Barr under the pseudonym Gilbert Rock. A thriller based in the Mount Alexander and Bendigo diggings in Victoria. Good.

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