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The Pioneers of the North-West of South Australia, 1856 to 1914
by RICHARDSON, Norman A
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas ... Printers, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas ... Printers, 1925. Octavo, [xii], 155 pages with numerous plates plus a folding map (325 × 285 mm). Cloth; trifling creases to a few leaves (production flaws); a fine copy with the fine pictorial dustwrapper (with a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel). We have handled a copy with a note by Harry Muir (of the Beck Book Company) stating that the edition comprised '350 full cloth / 150 paper'. Provenance: John Grant Duncan-Hughes (1882-1962), SA pastoralist, lawyer, and Federal politician, with his contemporary ownership signature (3 October 1925) on the pastedown.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12150
- Title
- The Pioneers of the North-West of South Australia, 1856 to 1914
- Author
- RICHARDSON, Norman A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W.K. Thomas ... Printers
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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- Fine
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