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There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
[publisher: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne] Softcover 415 pp. Edges very lightly foxed. Some folded pages. Text block edge-worn. D/J also edge-worn with some damp stains. Jacket flap torn down one edge. A story of an English aristocrat who was unjustly sentenced and transported as convict. to Tasmania. [Hamilton, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1955]
(Carlton), Melbourne University Press, (1955).. 8vo; pp. xxxv 415; map endpapers, notes; original wrapper, lightly chipped browned dustjacket flaps, price clipped; otherwise a very good copy. (Carlton), Melbourne University Press, (1955). [AU]
Melbourne University Press, (1955).. First Australian Edition; 8vo; pp. xxxvi, 415; endpaper maps, stiff illustrated wrapper, wrapper chipped, priceclipped, flecking to head of page edges, good copy. Melbourne University Press, (1955). [AU]
Melbourne University Press, (1955).. First Australian Edition; 8vo; pp. xxxvi, 415; endpaper maps, original cloth, Melbourne University Press, (1955). [AU]
[publisher: Melbourne University Press, (1955).] First Australian Edition; 8vo; pp. xxxvi, 415; endpaper maps, stiff illustrated wrapper, wrapper chipped, priceclipped, flecking to head of page edges, good copy. [Somerville, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1955]
[publisher: Melbourne University Press, (1955).] First Australian Edition; 8vo; pp. xxxvi, 415; endpaper maps, original cloth, [Somerville, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1955]
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1955). Revised second printiong of this new edition. Fine in dust jacket, with a large piece gone from base of spine.. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, (1955). Revised second printiong of this new edition. [CA]
Date: 1918. This is the original, first edition - NOT a Reprint ! London, George Allen & Unwin, 1918. 8°. 416 pages including the printed errata slip. Hardcover with front of the original dustjacket pasted to frontcover. First Edition. Original cloth with illustration-montage on frontcover. Hole in the hinge. Slightly rubbed. Rubbed. From the Australiana collection of Colin Roderick with a tipped in dedication slip to the endpaper (Colin Roderick, August 1945 - from M.V.H.). William Gosse Hay (1875-1945), author and essayist, was born on 17 November 1875 at Linden, Hazelwood Park, Adelaide, son of Alexander Hay and his wife Agnes Grant, née Gosse, cousin of (Sir) Edmund Gosse, literary critic and essayist, and sister of William Christie Gosse. Hay was educated privately in Adelaide and from 1889 at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School before in 1895 entering Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1898). At Cambridge he became interested in Australian history and wrote a novel about convict transportation to New South Wales. His father's death in 1898 released him from an obligation to study law and allowed him to devote himself to writing. Early poems and short stories were unsuccessful but in 1901 his Cambridge novel, Stifled Laughter: a melodrama (time 1834), was published through the agency of London literary friends and with the financial support of his mother, herself a minor biographer and novelist. Having inherited independent means, Hay returned thankfully to Sou ...
[publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin.] Hardcover This is the original, first edition - NOT a Reprint ! 8°. 416 pages including the printed errata slip. Hardcover with front of the original dustjacket pasted to frontcover. First Edition. Original cloth with illustration-montage on frontcover. Hole in the hinge. Slightly rubbed. Rubbed. From the Australiana collection of Colin Roderick with a tipped in dedication slip to the endpaper (Colin Roderick, August 1945 - from M.V.H.). William Gosse Hay (1875-1945), author and essayist, was born on 17 November 1875 at Linden, Hazelwood Park, Adelaide, son of Alexander Hay and his wife Agnes Grant, née Gosse, cousin of (Sir) Edmund Gosse, literary critic and essayist, and sister of William Christie Gosse. Hay was educated privately in Adelaide and from 1889 at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School before in 1895 entering Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1898). At Cambridge he became interested in Australian history and wrote a novel about convict transportation to New South Wales. His father's death in 1898 released him from an obligation to study law and allowed him to devote himself to writing. Early poems and short stories were unsuccessful but in 1901 his Cambridge novel, Stifled Laughter: a melodrama (time 1834), was published through the agency of London literary friends and with the financial support of his mother, herself a minor biographer and novelist. Having inherited independent means, Hay returned ...
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