The head and tail of the jacket's spine is chipped as are its edges, else a nice copy, clean and solid. x, 289 pages indexed. 'The Saga of Coal' was originally commissioned by the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company to celebrate its centenary in 1958. The directors of bthe company felt that this should not be just an account of the one's company development, but a short history of the coal industry in New South Wales as a whole.' (front flap)