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Back to Billabong
by Bruce, Mary Grant
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Ward, Lock & Co, London and Melbourne, No date. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: J. MacFarlane. 252 + 4 pp advertisements, black-and-white frontispiece, four other black-and-white plates by J. MacFarlane. All edges of the boards show signs of rubbing, ownership inscription dated 1923 on front endpaper, along with the owner's rubber name stamp, webbing visible at the half title page, offset tanning to the end pages, foxing of all the page edges. Australian children's bush novel. This is probably the second impression, not noted in Muir Green cloth illustrated, mounted rider on left facing standing woman. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: J. MacFarlane. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 0248046. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0248046
- Title
- Back to Billabong
- Author
- Bruce, Mary Grant
- Illustrator
- J. MacFarlane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- Place of Publication
- London and Melbourne
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Novel, Adolescents, Australia Children; J. MacFarlane Unbranded Bruce, Mary Grant Back to Billabong
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Offset
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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