The Opium Smugglers: A True Story of Our Northern Sea
by IDRIESS, ION L
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Angus and Robertson 1948. First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with black lettering to sine, red decoration to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 273pp, illus, VG- (light bruising to spine extrems, light fraying & tanning to spine, some soiling to boards & spine, light foxing & soiling to page edges, v v slight foxing & tanning to prelims, frontispiece coming loose)
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- Title
- The Opium Smugglers: A True Story of Our Northern Sea
- Author
- IDRIESS, ION L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson 1948
- Keywords
- first edition Ion L Idriess Australia Australian opium smuggling smugglers history autobiography memoir
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