LAND OF FORTUNE - A Study of the New Australian
by AITKEN, Jonathan
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- hardcover
- First
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Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London, Secker & Warburg first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The author brilliantly captures the mood of the 'lucky country', as it has been called, and at the same time buries forever the traditional concepts of Australia as the land 'down under', a British satellite populated by sheep-shearers and kangaroos. 223 x 143mm., pp. viii, 267, map endpapers. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - p.o name ffep. (neat one line), contents near fine, d.j. very slight rubbing - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE
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Details
- Bookseller
- EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 4aee48ce24c7df02e55c7383
- Title
- LAND OF FORTUNE - A Study of the New Australian
- Author
- AITKEN, Jonathan
- Book condition
- Used
- Edition
- first edition - hard cover in dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Secker & Warburg
- Date published
- 1971
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EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS
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- rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- ffep
- A common abbreviation for Front Free EndPaper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...[more]
- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...[more]
- First Edition
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- fine
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