Escape to an Island
by Alliston, Eleanor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0909104565
- ISBN 13
- 9780909104566
- Seller
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1968. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in a Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is creased with small closed tear to upper front spine edge, light chipping to corners. Offset to free endpapers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. 184 pages. The story of the author's family and their life on Three Hummock Island, a remote Island off the coast of Tasmania, following the end of World War 2. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB324332
- Title
- Escape to an Island
- Author
- Alliston, Eleanor
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0909104565
- ISBN 13
- 9780909104566
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; aust-tas;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Adelaide Booksellers
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....