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The Dictionary of Australian Bushrangers – Roy Mendham

Definitive list and mini- biography of Australian bushrangers. A special copy once owned by a knowledgeable enthusiast as it contains a number of pencilled additions between the entries and a fully annotated index at the back concerning Tasmanian and Norfolk Island … so clearly from the Apple isle.

Published by Hawthorn Press in 1975, Octavo, 179 pages, a super copy.

Like all books that “Grab us” just spent over an hour reading the content before writing it up. Often now pseudo idolised … they were thugs really .. and left a lot of people in distress … and sometimes dead!

Bushrangers – all of them – Mastermind Material

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$30.00

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Martin Cash – Life After Bushranging – Maree Ring

A unusual item, an extended pamphlet really all about Tasmania’s favourite bushranger Martin Cash. Not so much his goings on in his early days of bushranging (although there is a good snippet of that) but more about his time in New Zealand and then later on return to Hobart.

Written from a sympathetic viewpoint, as often the case with Cash. We are not sure quite why that is the case. For sure he is supposed to have had a soft spot for women and we guess in return women had and still have a soft spot for him.

However, and it’s a big however … when in NZ he seemed to spend most of his time forming and running brothels (yes plural). In fact in the end he was given the big tip off to leave the country … forcing his return to Tasmania. His illicit activities paid him well and he was able to purchase a smallholding up the back of New Town … he spent most of his leisure time in the pubs of Salamanca … well don’t we all.

Self published Hobart in 1993. Softcover, stitched, 41 pages with some useful and relevant illustrations. We like the unpretentious writing of the researcher author. A fine copy.

Martin Cash – the final story – and an interesting one too.

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$20.00

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Aces Made Easy [Cheating at Bridge - Our Emphasis] – McCullough and Fogasse.

Published by Methuen, London in 1945, having first been published in 1934.

Small octavo, 134 pages, illustrated by Fogasse. I very good copy albeit with dust jacket chips.

We love this little book which is essentially all about how to cheat well at the card game Bridge. Bridge players on the whole are rather snooty self important individuals. It’s a game that can lead to divorce, and lost friends, so cheating on those so self consumed seams to Voyager to be rather fair.

The Author wrote a few books along these lines – another we like is tilted “Card-playing for Profit” .. another “What shall I tell my Partner?”.

Get over the moral dilemma and cheat at Bridge it’s much more fun than the game.

$30.00

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Black Widow – America’s Most poisonous Spider – Thorp and Woodson

What a super subject for a standalone book.

First edition published by The University of Morth Carolina Press in 1945.

Octavo, 222 pages, illustrated with spidery goodness. A very good copy and very clean and well produced given the end of WWII publishing date.

All about the Widow as one would expect. Comparison’s with other spider devils, experiments on people .. the life cycle and habits of this avoidable octopod.

Would make a great gift for someone who has it all …

$40.00

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The Aboriginal / Settler Clash in Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1831 – N.J.B. Plomley

Published in 1992 by the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, where Plomley was at the time an Honorary Research Assistant and the University of Tasmania. Described as their “Occasional Paper No 6”. Very hard to find a copy.

Printed internally on what A4 sized paper, one hundred pages, staple bound, binder’s tape, cream heavy card covers, image to front on a conflict ex Bonwick. Fine and clean.

The structure of the work is interesting, twenty-six pages of narrative, bibliography, tables of Aboriginal population, rather sad graphs of the decline and the level of incidents which peaked in 1830, numerous maps of Tasmania showing the location of clashes and a lengthy table of the nature of those clashed.

Sobering history not to be ignored …

$50.00

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To Hell or to Hobart – A New Insight into Irish Convict History – Patrick Howard

Published by Kangaroo Press in 1994, a soft cover edition in fine condition. Octavo, 199 pages, illustrated throughout.

The author the great grandson of Irish convicts Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land in 1843 and 1849 respectively. Stephen had stolen a gun from a landowner and Ellen and her family had been caught stealing a sheep during a time of high famine.

This book is a joy. We first get the “’back history” the situation in Ireland both generally and specifically to Stephen and Ellen. The offences, the trial, the jails, the transportation. Time in Tasmania as convicts and their eventual release or ticket of leave. There striving to survive, success and the successes of subsequent generations …

One Irish Convict family in depth but much deeper than that ..

$25.00

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The Dictionary of Australian Bushrangers – Roy Mendham

Martin Cash – Life After Bushranging – Maree Ring

Aces Made Easy [Cheating at Bridge - Our Emphasis] – McCullough and Fogasse.

Black Widow – America’s Most poisonous Spider – Thorp and Woodson

The Aboriginal / Settler Clash in Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1831 – N.J.B. Plomley

To Hell or to Hobart – A New Insight into Irish Convict History – Patrick Howard

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