My Mate Dick
by IDRIESS, ION L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Angus and Robertson 1962. FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, tatty/delicate (price clipped, very heavy chipping to edges with some loss at spine extrems, heavy tearing to folds of flaps, moderate chafing)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 288844
- Title
- My Mate Dick
- Author
- IDRIESS, ION L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson 1962
- Keywords
- Ion L Idriess Australia Australian adventures literature first edition
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...