The Checkmate
by Bosi, Pino
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0949575089
- ISBN 13
- 9780949575081
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hodja, Richmond, Victoria, 1983. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Stephen Pascoe. V, 6-176 pages. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations by Stephen Pascoe, throughout the text. Black-and-white illustrated covers, again by Stephen Pascoe, with white background and blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. The author emigrated to Australia in 1951 and in 1956 became a sub-editor with an Italian newspaper in Sydney. His writing style has been described as forthright and enthusiastic and he brings this enthusiasm and forthrightness to the series of short stories about "... Italians, Poles, and Jews, about priests and tramps -- all of them Australians." -- from the rear panel blurb. Size: Standard Paperback. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Stephen Pascoe. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Fiction -- Australian; ISBN: 0949575089. ISBN/EAN: 9780949575081. Inventory No: 0242941. . 9780949575081
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0242941
- Title
- The Checkmate
- Author
- Bosi, Pino
- Illustrator
- Stephen Pascoe
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0949575089
- ISBN 13
- 9780949575081
- Publisher
- Hodja
- Place of Publication
- Richmond, Victoria
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Short Stories -- Australian -- Multiculturalism, Stephen Pascoe -- Illustrator Literature & Literary; Fiction -- Australian; Stephen Pascoe Unbranded ISBN: 0949575089 EAN: 9780949575081 Bosi, Pino The Checkmate
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Australian;
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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