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2 BOOKS BY BILL WANNAN :

1)  VERY STRANGE TALES

The Turbulent Times of Samuel Marsden

by BILL WANNAN

BOOK DETAILS :
Date:          1962
Pages:        223 + 5 pages Notes, Appendix & Bibliography
Publisher:   Lansdowne Press, Melbourne
Edition:       First Edition
Binding:      Hardcover
ISBN:         Does not apply
SIZE:          8vo - 22 x 14 x 2.5
Dustjacket: Yes
Condition:   Green cloth-bound hardcover with gilt title to spine, slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions, small bookshop stamp to first page, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, in a clipped GOOD DUSTJACKET with a few small tears, slight rubbing and edgewear.

• The author's "gentlemen" of the strange tales include some of the foremost figures in New South Wales during the first fifty years of its settlement: John and Hannibal Macarthur, the Reverend Samuel Marsden, Major George Johnston, Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes.
• Bill Wannan was a leading collector of, and an authority on, Australian folklore. He published over 50 books in the fields of folklore, humour, Australian colonial figures (including bushrangers) and the Scots and Irish in Australia.

2)  Bill Wannan selects

STAGE-COACH stories of old Australia

A Box-Seat Miscellany

BOOK DETAILS :
Date:          1978
Pages:        146
Publisher:   Sun Books, Melbourne
Edition:       First Edition
Binding:      Softcover
ISBN:         0725102985
SIZE:          8vo - 21 x 14 x 1.5
Dustjacket: No
Condition:   Illustrated softcover with title to spine & front cover, slight rubbing to spine & corners, no inscriptions, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, slight foxing to endpapers & to a few outside page edges.

• 'Included here are first hand accounts by the drivers themselves as well as those of contemporary observers - Henry Lawson, Rolf Boldrewood, Ernie Richards, Duke Tritton, Mick Dougherty and 'Cabbage-Tree' Ned Devine.  In this blend of fact and fiction those characters live again.'