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Across New Guinea From The Fly To The Sepik
by Ivan F. Champion
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Constable and Co Ltd, UK, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Inscribed by Author. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Binding still very good , slightly cocked. Heavy foxing front/rear pages, scattered foxing throughout book. Edges foxed and browned. Bumping to board corners. Inscribed by Author..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51983
- Title
- Across New Guinea From The Fly To The Sepik
- Author
- Ivan F. Champion
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Constable and Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Exploration; Inscribed by Author Unbranded Ivan F. Champion Across New Guinea From The Fly To The Sepik
Terms of Sale
Shiny Owl Books
We do not Drop Ship Internationally. Drop Ships within Australia will attract a $5 surcharge
About the Seller
Shiny Owl Books
Biblio member since 2006
Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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