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The Call of the Far Horizons
by McBRIDE, Dick
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Hamilton Hill: Printed by PK Print Pty. Ltd. (Published by Eunice McBride), 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Hamilton Hill, Printed by PK Print Pty. Ltd. (Published by Eunice McBride), 1994. Octavo, [viii], 272 pages with numerous illustrations. Synthetic cloth very slightly bumped; an excellent copy with the very slightly bumped and sunned dustwrapper. Inscribed and signed by the author's widow; loosely inserted is a small processed review of the book. Robert Campbell McBride (1913-1990) was 'born into a distinguished pastoralist family [and] he spent his childhood on several of the stations owned at that time by his great grandfather R.J.M. McBride and grandfather W.J. McBride. This book covers his life in the outback areas of South Australia, Northern Territory and the North West of Western Australia'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122875
- Title
- The Call of the Far Horizons
- Author
- McBRIDE, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed by PK Print Pty. Ltd. (Published by Eunice McBride)
- Place of Publication
- Hamilton Hill
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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