Forty Fathoms Deep : Pearl Divers and Sea Rovers in Australian Seas
by Idriess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Fair with no dust jacket. (1952). Hardcover. Staining to spine and boards. Creasing to upper corners of some leaves. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; 1952 reprint of 1950 "New Edition". x, 278 pages + frontispiece + plates + map on front endpaper. Orange cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. An account of the pearlers and pearling industry of Broome. The pearl seas of north-western Australia. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25473
- Title
- Forty Fathoms Deep : Pearl Divers and Sea Rovers in Australian Seas
- Author
- Idriess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1952)
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
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