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In Our Hands 1st Edition
by Backhouse, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G-VG in poor dustwrapper/Dustwrapper
- Seller
-
Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Perth: Patersons Printing Press Ltd, no date (1942). 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in poor dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. West Australian writer Elizabeth Backhouse's first novel, no publishing date (Trove dates it 1942); former owner's name/date (3.11.43) to front endpaper, endpapers and text block tanned, o.w. VG throughout; boards with some wear to head and tail of spine, and some sunning to head of spine; dustwrapper missing lower 3/4 of spine, heavily tape-repaired around edges and spine, held together in acid-free dustwrapper cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20500
- Title
- In Our Hands 1st Edition
- Author
- Backhouse, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - G-VG in poor dustwrapper
- Jacket Condition
- Dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Patersons Printing Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Perth
- Date Published
- no date (1942)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gotcha By The Books
Biblio member since 2017
Camira, Queensland
About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
Glossary
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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