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Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 The Pacific Book of Bush Ballads
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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pacific Books , 1967 .
      Extent: xii, 252p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes glossary, notes and index of titles.
      • Editor's Introduction: This anthology is a selection of the best Australian ballads from Australian Bush Ballads (Sydney, 1955) and Old Bush Songs (Sydney, 1957); in other words, of the best Australian ballads from their beginnings in the convict days of the first settlement to their high tide as a literary movement in the 1890s and early 1900s. Douglas Stewart. (vii-viii)
      Series: Pacific Books Angus and Robertson (publisher), 1961 series - publisher The establishment of this paperback imprint of Angus Robertson was spearheaded by Beatrice Davis. It started with print runs of 20,000 in 1961 (Paper Empires: History of Book in Australia, 18).This paperback series, published by Angus and Robertson, contains both numbered and unnumbered volumes.
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