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Official Illustrated Guide to Adelaide and Environs. Containing Full and Authentic Descriptive Letterpress, and Pictorial Information of Value to Visitors and Tourists
by ELLERY, T. Geo. (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide: Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide), 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide, Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide), 1906. Octavo, xvi (advertisements), 216 pages with numerous (mostly full-page) illustrations from photographs plus a folding colour map (of Adelaide), pictorial printed wrappers and advertisements mounted on the pastedowns. Original full red leather (attractively lettered in gilt on the front cover), retaining the original printed wrappers; head of the spine neatly restored; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities; many of the illustrations offset; notwithstanding, an excellent copy. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, with his pencilled ownership signature, dated 1906.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 109139
- Title
- Official Illustrated Guide to Adelaide and Environs. Containing Full and Authentic Descriptive Letterpress, and Pictorial Information of Value to Visitors and Tourists
- Author
- ELLERY, T. Geo. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Goodwin & Co. (for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide)
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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