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Journey to Upolu: Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian Rebel
by Rice, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0396069339
- ISBN 13
- 9780396069331
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Various. XII, 146pp., last blank. The text is illustrated with contemporary black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Yellow coloured boards with black writing on the spine. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a side on view of Robert Louis Stevenson, with blue background and yellow and white writing on the front panel and spine. Rubbing and chipping to the top of the dust jacket around the spine, slight dustiness to the top edge of the text block, and rubbing of the base edge of the boards where they contacted the shelf. The front panel of the dust jacket, has faded on the right-hand side, from approximately 1.5 "on the bottom edge, running up towards the fold over edge towards the top of the book. In this book, Edward Rice provides a new look at a writer whose life and purpose fit our world more closely than did his own, a Wanderer, eager, curious, whose books have been a part of growing up for nearly everyone in the English-speaking world. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0396069339. ISBN/EAN: 9780396069331. Inventory No: 0218603. . 9780396069331
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0218603
- Title
- Journey to Upolu: Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian Rebel
- Author
- Rice, Edward
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0396069339
- ISBN 13
- 9780396069331
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Robert Louis Stevenson -- Biography, Literature -- Biography, Victorian Writer Biography & Autobiography; Various Unbranded ISBN: 0396069339 EAN: 9780396069331 Rice, Edward Journey to Upolu: Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian Rebel
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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