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Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins.
by Collins, Tom. (With Biographical Sketch by C. Hartley Grattan)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 394 pages. Hardcover with a tan and black dust jacket. Ligyht to moderate rubbing and wear to the jacket. The book has some foxing to the outer edges of the text block but is otherwise sound and clean. "An Engaging Tale about the People who lived on the Rugged Australian Ranges and Deserts".
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021528
- Title
- Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins.
- Author
- Collins, Tom. (With Biographical Sketch by C. Hartley Grattan)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- 1948. Tom Collins. C. Hartley Grattan. Diary. Australia. Outback. Adventure. Rare. Collectible.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; World History;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.