Isles of Despair
by Idriess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-/No Jacket
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1947 8vo. original tan cloth (slightly rubbed & sunned, a little marked, ex-Daylesford Technical School Library, with RSMs etc to outer leasves and edges, top edge of half-title clipped; lacks dustwrapper); pp. viii, 288, with illustrations + endpaper map. A very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG-/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032032
- Title
- Isles of Despair
- Author
- Idriess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Ion Idriess Isles of Despair Local History Queensland Torres Strait Shipwrecks Cape York Cutter America Aborigines Maritime History Australia Barbara Thompson
Terms of Sale
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
Biblio member since 2022
Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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