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Gold-Dust and Ashes. The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields
by IDRIESS, Ion L
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- very good
- hardcover
- Signed
- First
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Adelaide, South Australia
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$660.35
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1933 [first edition]. Octavo, x, 285, [1] (colophon), 26 (publisher's catalogue) pages with an illustration plus 35 plates, 2 maps on the front endpaper, a statement of limitation printed on the verso of the front flyleaf, and the pictorial front panel of the dustwrapper bound in after the half-title (as issued). Publisher's blind-ruled brown textured cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; endpapers a little foxed and offset, with a tiny nick to the leading edge of each one; small light tidemark to the blank surfaces of the dustwrapper panel and the frontispiece, and to the leading margin of the first leaf of plates; tipped in on the half-title and its recto are two large armorial bookplates (featuring variant designs for Robert Millar Swanson); an excellent copy. The statement of limitation indicates this is 'One of 200 copies in art [artificial] leather, with jacket bound in. This is No. 125', numbered and signed by the author. The book is based on the life of Cecil John Levien (1874-1932), district officer and mining promoter (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114406
- Title
- Gold-Dust and Ashes. The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields
- Author
- IDRIESS, Ion L
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1933
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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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- foxed
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- jacket
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- tipped in
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- verso
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- octavo
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- First Edition
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- dustwrapper
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- gilt
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- recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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