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Author:Donnison, A.
Title:Winning a wife in Australia : a story drawn from actual experiences and illustrative of life in the present day in the Antipodes / by A. Donnison.
Published:Sydney : Dymock's Book Arcade, 1894
Description:viii, 360 p. ; 19 cm.
Dewey Number:823/.2
Notes:"[This issue] is the London printing of the first edition for Ward, Lock and Bowden with a Dymock title-page and with the original blue cloth binding of the London edition intact. Over the London cloth has been pasted, and so issued, yellowback pictorial papering identical in design to that printed for the London yellowback issue but with Dymock imprint on the front board and with a bold advertisement for 'Dymock's Great Book Arcade One of the Sights of Sydney ...' on the back board. On the back board is also the imprint of the London printer, Evans, whose imprint also appears on the London yellowback papering" -- New Century Antiquarian Books, Special List 25.
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