Capricornia: A novel
by Herbert, Xavier
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(Sydney: The Publicist: January 1938) First Edition, one of 2000 copies printed. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 597. Map on front endpapers. Cloth a little foxed and a little rubbed at head and foot of spine and corners of boards; light discoloration to foot of rear board; edges and endpapers a little foxed; pages tanned; otherwise a very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 249397
- Title
- Capricornia: A novel
- Author
- Herbert, Xavier
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- literature australia aboriginal
Terms of Sale
exPB
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...