The pages are lightly tanned, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. 261 pages, indexed, detailed bibliography. The 2001 publishing date in the copyright page in the book. Trove offers c2003. "Detailed profile of the total social structure of the frontier pastoral community in the Bathurst region; chapter 2 concerned with the 1824 Black War which is seen as an example of class conflict." (Trove)