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PENTON, Brian

Landtakers : the story of an epoch

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New York : Farrar & Rinehart 1935. First US edition (first published in Sydney in 1934). Octavo, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear with small chips), pp. x; 485, a fine copy.

This story of pioneers in 1840s Queensland is rated by Geoffrey Dutton as one of the 100 most important Australian novels.