Beyond Cooralong (A Story of Early Western Australia)

Perth: C.H. Pitman, 1945. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 255pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, creasing, chipping, and toning to covers, corners, and edges. Tears and corners and to head and tail of spine. Top 1/2" of rear flap is completely torn away. FOxing to inside of jacket. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Gentle bumps to corners. Lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers. Inked inscription dated "Xmas 1945" to front paste-down. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This is a story of grim days when England was emancipating workers who were the victims of a new industrial era, as earnestly, though less violently, than America was delivering the dark slave. The scene of the story moves from the lovely countryside of England to the Timber Industry of Western Australia. An industry the little colony was battling to establish under great adversity. The very pursuit of success in this field brings together two young people whose lives would have lain far apart. This is a throbbing romance of love and a fight for ideals that were in advance of the general thought of the day.(Publisher).