KNOCKING ABOUT : Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia

by Augustus Baker Pierce [Edited By: Mas. Albert T. Leatherbee]

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Wangaratta, VIC, Australia: Shoestring Press (with assistance), 1984. xvii, + 181pp., sketch-art frontispiece, and numerous, like, intext b/white illustrations throughout, all by the author. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over mildly bumped spine. Plain, original brown cloth boards bumped on lower foredge, together with minor colour flecking. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket slightly edgeworn and colour faded on spine. A facsimile reprint edition of 'Knocking About', first published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1924. The biography of an American Paddle-steamer captain who worked the Australian Murray River during the first hectic decade of river trade . . . Contents include: Prelims., 12 chapters, Index. Book weight approx. 450g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Thus. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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