Author: CHARLES, JOE
Title: Black Billy Tea : New Zealand Ballads
Description: New Zealand, Whitcoulls. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0723306567) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ballads about gold-diggers, swaggies, shearers, drovers, rouseabouts and sailors. Tales collected from old timers by a South Island Farmer and turned into ballads often celebrating aspects of rural life in New Zealand during the early and middle parts of the twentieth century, many celebrating the moonshiners in the Hokonui Hills were one place where well-hidden stills made a wide range of whiskies of varying quality. CONDITION Green hardback (unworn) 96 pages with sketch illus throughout by Jean Oates. Copy is as new apart from slight musty odour and toning to eps. DJ unworn. #New Zealand History#. Very Good/Very Good.

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