The Green Centre by Paine Barry - 1976

London and Australia: LondonBBC/Andre Deutsch Ltd/Hutchinson, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback First Australian Edition. Hardcover Quarto and Illustrated Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition, illustrated with 40 pages of color photographs by the author, in original orange cloth with silver titles to spine, very bright and clean, light wear to corners and lower edge, tight and solid sewn binding. Except for small inscription on endpaper, internals are as new. After a period of unusually heavy rainfall, the red centre of Australia was changed from the hottest, driest desert in the world into meadows, pools of water, and with spectacular changes to scenery, and animal and plant life.This book is the story of how a film was made for the British Broadcasting Corporation in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and also provides a much fuller account by Barry Paine who witnessed this wonder of the miraculous devices… Read More

London: Andre Deutsch. 1976. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated in Colour and black & white. 176 pages. An account of the BBC/ABC film about central Australia and the greening of the centre following rains. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Andre Deutsch, 1976. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, 10 1/2" x 8", mild spotting to top closed edge else a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has lightly faded to spine, bookplate of a previous owner, text is clean and unmarked, colour plates, 176pp.

Marlin Books; BBC. 1976 Marlin Books/BBC large softback; VG copy, light wear to page edges, clean inside, couple of pen marks on bottom page edge; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Paperback. 1976.