Cooks Interstate Business Directory of Victoria - Tasmania - New South Wales - Queensland.
by Cooks Business, Directories
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Cooks Business Directories, 1933. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket, good condition, red paper-covered boards (including spine, bottom corners tip worn), black & white text-photos, boards possibly little faded (spine most notable), minor foxing endpapers & few pages, light toning pages, front hinge slightly split (pages firm), front cover little scuffed (eg, part black border missing), some edgewear, rubber stamp title page (roughly crossed out with with biro), otherwise internally very good. 481 pp. This combined Interstate Business Directory for 1933 has been published to comply with the many requests for a combined directory. The order is: Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland. The start of the Victorian section has a grey title page & general index. The other states have a light blue title page & general index. There is one page of South Australian border towns after Victoria and before Tasmania. A fascinating way to explore some Australian business history.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40555
- Title
- Cooks Interstate Business Directory of Victoria - Tasmania - New South Wales - Queensland.
- Author
- Cooks Business, Directories
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cooks Business Directories
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- reference, business, australian history, victoria, tasmania, new south wales (nsw), queensland, collectible, collectable
- Bookseller catalogs
- BUSINESS & COMMERCE;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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