A Boy of the Old Brigade. (ISBN 0 646 28174 7)

Joseph Furphy ("Tom Collins")

50115 Tarcoola Press, Victoria, 1st Edition, 1996. Soft cover, 18 x 28cm, 18 pages, good condition, several illustrations, rear cover has small dog ear to bottom LH corner, a couple of faint dirty marks to front cover. Joseph and John Furphy were children when the family moved from Yarra Glen to Kangaroo Ground in 1851 and attended a bush school erected there by the Presbyterian Church. 'A Boy of the Old Brigade' is obviously autobiographical, and refers to Joseph's father, Samuel (and was probably written some time after the father's death in 1891). $25.00AUD
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