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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. Very sl rub to spine ends, large inscr tohalf-title page, very small dark dot stain to bottom edge of upper bd and same place on dw, dw has also sl fade to spine and margins, mild crease to rear cover, and a sprinkling of faint spots mainly to rear cover. An English Girl's Reminiscences: 'Below Stairs' in Colonial Australia. ; 260x180mm; 139 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. xv+263 pages. Illustrated. Minor shelf wear to bottom of spine. Top of dust jacket turn in slightly rubbed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The Story Of An English Girl In Service At Government House, Australia. Illustrated frontispiece and endpapers. Text illustrated with black and white illustrations and photography, line drawings, and coloured illustrations and photography. Book Prize Award pasted in front end paper. These reminiscences of an English girl "in service' present a remarkably lively portrait of Australia in the 1880's and 1890's including the colourful, continuous whirl of dinners, balls and garden parties of colonial society.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Printing of this Edition, 128 pages. Small mark on blank endpaper, otherwise spotless inside and out. Dust jacket as new.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Some edgewear. Dust jacket has creasing to top edge and a small tear at the spine top. Excellent interior. Some fading to back cover. An adventurous spirit and insatiable curiosity, Agnes, a girl "in service", is employed in one great house after another. Governors, ladies, grooms, laundry maids are all described with directness and humour.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. New Edition. 145 pages. Colour and black & white illustrations. A clean, straight, unmarked book, in an undamaged dust jacket, this copy just about as good as new. Scan available.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New 1982 Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth) Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine with mylar protective cover. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy printed on yellow paper. Delightfully illustrated throughout with images from the times. 145 pp Quarto size.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. xvi, 263pp, bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Emma Southgate began her journal when she journeyed from England to Australia in 1884 as lady's maid to Lady Loch, wife of the Governor of Victoria. Her diaries include sumptuous parties in elegant ballrooms and receptions on rolling laws; stylish travel through the colonies of Victoria, Tasmania, NSW and South Australia; important international visitors and the social whirl that accompanied occasions such as Melbourne Cup week. Size: 8vo.