REDGUM AND PADDLEWHEELS. Australia's Inland River Trade. Foreword by Bill Peach
by Phillips, Peter J
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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About This Item
Collingwood/VIC: Greenhouse, 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Greenhouse [Published date: 1980]. Hard cover, 167 pp. 1981 reprint. Good in good dust jacket. Brown paper over boards have light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's gift inscription on half-title page. Light pencil erasure marks on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly yellowed around edges but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1" tear on the paper covering the bottom corner of the rear cover and a few other smaller nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Spine discolored from sun. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. Nice b&w illustrations and photo reproductions throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20140906007
- Title
- REDGUM AND PADDLEWHEELS. Australia's Inland River Trade. Foreword by Bill Peach
- Author
- Phillips, Peter J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collingwood/VIC: Greenhouse
- Date Published
- 1980-01-01
- Keywords
- Australia, History, boats
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