SKU: B-000736

In Defence Of Lives And Property

Author: Edgar Penzig

Special Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Personalised

Condition: The front blank grey paper has been removed. Pages are otherwise clean and tidy. Free of handwriting. Free of dog ears. Tight binding. From a smoke free home.

History Australiana Antiquarian & Collectable

Australia Australian History Cultural History Colonialism Military War & Combat

First edition hardcover of Edgar Penzig’s In Defence Of Lives And Property, a 1981 illustrated Australian true-crime and colonial history classic. The dust-jacketed volume explores how early settlers protected homes and livelihoods, blending military detail with vivid biographical snapshots of frontier life.

Kangaroo Press produced this collectible vintage copy, its pages clean and binding tight despite the front blank flyleaf having been removed. Generous black-and-white plates and maps enrich Penzig’s narrative, making the book as engaging for young adults discovering local history as for adults expanding an Australiana shelf.

Personalised but not signed, the copy comes from a smoke-free home, free of notes, foxing, or dog-ears—ready for the reader who values both content and condition.

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