LAND LOOKING WEST: The Story of Governor James Stirling in Western Australia - - - WITH MALCOLM UREN'S BOOKPLATE - - -
by UREN, Malcolm
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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East Victoria Park, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London, Oxford first edition - hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket This book tells how Captain James Stirling of the Royal Navy in 1829 planted on a sandy beach a colony that is now the State of Western Australia; it shows how vision, tenacity, endurance, work and pride can find a way through every barrier set by nature. and the Official Mind. 222 x 148mm., pp. xii, 316, frontispiece, b/w plates, folded map, append., biblio., index. Hard cover, NO DUST JACKET. Contents, small ""p.o."" name top and UREN'S BOOKPLATE ffep, frontispiece ""rippled"" front edge, bords clean. VG
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- Bookseller
- EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- feb93a8e1cd5d1a6d6f9787f
- Title
- LAND LOOKING WEST: The Story of Governor James Stirling in Western Australia - - - WITH MALCOLM UREN'S BOOKPLATE - - -
- Author
- UREN, Malcolm
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- first edition - hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Oxford
- Date Published
- 1948
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