The Embarrassing Australian: The Story of an Australian Warrior
by Harry Gordon
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
-
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1962. Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 145mm x 220mm. The jacket has heavy general wear, sunning to spine and clipped to corners. A short tear to cloth at bottom front adjacent to spine. A small stain to top edge of page-block. All the usual library additions and remnants. Abrasions to pastedowns and ffep removed. Text and plates clean. Binding sound. A servicable reading copy. 172pp.
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Details
- Seller
- Lectioz Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 027203
- Title
- The Embarrassing Australian: The Story of an Australian Warrior
- Author
- Harry Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lansdowne Press
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 145mm x 220mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military & War;
Terms of Sale
Lectioz Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed
About the Seller
Lectioz Books
Biblio member since 2009
Gloucester, New South Wales
About Lectioz Books
Welcome to Lectioz. We are an internet-based bookseller located in Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia.The majority of our inventory is non-fiction, with a bias towards the Arts - in all its forms. In addition we stock books on Australian History, Natural History, Transport, Exploration, Science and many other subjects
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- FFEP
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- First Edition
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
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