[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: RARE AUSTRALIAN CONVICT'S TALE

[Norman Kane]

  VAUX, JAMES HARDY. MEMOIRS OF . . . A SWINDLER AND THIEF, NOW TRANSPORTED TO NEW SOUTH WALES FOR THE SECOND TIME, AND FOR LIFE. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. SECOND EDITION.
London: Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot, 1830. Later full calf stamped in blind and gilt, nice copy, no leaves before title, otherwise complete, pp. [iii]-xxiv, 288.  Quite scarce: the first full-length Australian autobiography. Edited by B. F. (Barron Field).  
$750.00 ($650 to the trade) plus postage


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