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Gabo Djara
by Wongar, B
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0396088619
- ISBN 13
- 9780396088615
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95), bumped at the top edge, stickers on the back panel. Quarter green cloth with beige paper on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the fore-edge, clean internally. An allegorical novel "about the ravishment of a native land spoiled by the white man's uranium mining and tests for nuclear weapons.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6333
- Title
- Gabo Djara
- Author
- Wongar, B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0396088619
- ISBN 13
- 9780396088615
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Australia, Australian Literature, Aboriginal, Gabo Djara, Ants, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Contemporary Fiction, PEN
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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