Rare convict book discovered in Tasmanian charity sale
26 April 2012 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
A rare book of poetry once owned by Australian convicts has been found in a charity sale in Burnie, northern Tasmania. Local Pam Thorne was helping run the Burnie Emu Bay Lions Club book sale when she saw the battered edition of Poems on Several Occasions by Joh Gay, an English poet....
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