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The Golden Valley
by Frank O'Grady
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Picton, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. This is a story of pioneers in New South Wales in the days when convicts deported from England were assigned to the venturesome few who dared the perils and the climate of the interior, and opened up the virgin lands....The story is based on an account of Oxley's discovery of the Peel River in 1818 and is told by a man who has grown up in the valley, with the formidable mountain fastnesses as his playground, and his mind enthralled from childhood with hero-worship of those who braved heart-breaking isolation, the perils of drought and flood, and the terrors of massacre, to build a new country from a wilderness Muswellbrook High School gift plate Size: 180mm - 250mm. 229 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear, some chips and tears, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Edges slightly foxed. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Australia; Inventory No: 50448. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bong Bong Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50448
- Title
- The Golden Valley
- Author
- Frank O'Grady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- BZDB3 Fiction; Australia; Unbranded Frank O'Grady The Golden Valley
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About the Seller
Bong Bong Books
Biblio member since 2005
Picton, New South Wales
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- Jacket
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- Foxed
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