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THE LIEUTENANT
by Grenville, Kate
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1921351780
- ISBN 13
- 9781921351785
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Text Publishing, 2008. 307pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain dark boards very good. A small mark to foredge, else leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket mildly edge-creased. From the jacket flap: "Daniel Rooke, soldier and astronomer, was always an outsider. As a young lieutenant of marines he arrives in New South Wales on the First Fleet in 1788 and sees his chance. He sets up his observatory away from the main camp, and begins the scientific work that he hopes will make him famous . . . Then an extraordinary friendship forms with an aboriginal child named Tagaran, and Rooke has almost forgotten he is a soldier when a man is fatally wounded in the infant colony . . . " Book weight approx. 580g.. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011232
- Title
- THE LIEUTENANT
- Author
- Grenville, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1921351780
- ISBN 13
- 9781921351785
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL KATE GRENVILLE, 1950-,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction-First Editions; Australian Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Diversity Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Diversity Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
Korumburra, Victoria
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