Herbert j rumsey (7 Ergebnisse)

Octavo, 172pp, + 4pp author book ads, original wrappers a bit worn, pages a bit age-browned, otherwise very good. SIGNED author's gift inscription. Bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton. 'Australian edition'. Intended to tell would-be migrants of bush and farm life in various parts of Australia, to encourage settlement. With a putative explanation of the term 'pommy' for Britisher: children's jibes arising from 'immigrant', 'jimmygrant', 'pommygrant', finally shortening to 'pommy'.…

120pp. Small 8vo.With colour and b/w illustrations. Original wrappers. A very good copy. First edition.

Erste Ausgabe - First Edition. (Mit hs. Widmung des Verfassers, dat. 16.12.50). - Papier deutlich gebräunt, sonst gut erhaltenes Exemplar. - 172 S. Illustr. Orig.-Karton.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. RUMSEY, Herbert J. (compiler; decorations James Emery; illus. Elva Jones). The Pioneers of Sydney Cove. Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, 1937. Demy 4to. Original olive cloth boards, gilt lettered. Original printed paper dust jacket. Housed in the original brown slipcase, as issued with at least some copies of this edition. Uncut. xxvi, [ii], 121, [i: colophon]pp. Title page vignette and decorations throughout by James Emery; several text illustrations by Elva Jones, based on contemporary prints of the colony. Limited edition. Limited to 150 numbered copies, this being number 71. Signed by both the compiler, Herbert J. Rumsey, and the printer, Ernest H. Shea, on the limitation page. The sixth book published by the Sunnybrook Press. Includes the original sales prospectus, with excerpt from the book, dated 1936. Bookplate of Milton Whitmont to front free endpaper. The Sunnybrook Press was a small, meticulous Sydney private press of the 1930s, operating under the direction of Ernest H. Shea, whose commitment to fine printing in the Australian context produced a small but carefully considered list of titles. This is the sixth such title and addressed one of the most enduringly significant subjects in Australian colonial history: the identities and fates of the men, women, and children who arrived with the First Fleet in January 1788 and formed the founding population of the colony of New South Wales at Sydney Cove. Fine in very good dust jacket. Some mild wear at dust jacket ends and some toning to spine, small tear to lower front edge and small watermark to front cover near spine crease. Volume fine, clear and bright throughout. Binding sound. Elva Jones (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

4to, pp. xxviii, 122, No. 59 of 150 copies, signed by Rumsey and Ernest Shea, near fine with small tear to d.j., protected. A list of early pioneers of Sydney (114 pages) obtained from manuscripts containing very brief information of those who left England for New South Wales from the years 1787 to 1836 and also from the records of a Census taken in 1828. James Emery (illustrator).…

Boards. Limited Ed. Quarto, original cloth boards, pp. xxviii, 122, limited edition of 150 copies, signed by the compiler Herbert Rumsey and the designer and printer Ernest Shea. Near-fine condition. A list of early pioneers of Sydney (114 pages) obtained from manuscripts containing very brief information of those who left England for New South Wales from the years 1787 to 1836 and also from the records of a Census taken in 1828. James Emery (illustrator).…

xxviii+122pp. 4to. Original buckram in dustwrapper, with some wear to extremities. Black and white decorations. Light foxing to upper edge and endpapers. A very attractive copy. A finely printed and decorated register of the first settlers, bond and free, in Sydney. No. 56 of 150 copies signed by the compiler and the illustrator.…