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The Squatter's Bairn. With A Coloured Frontispiece by Harold Copping and 24 Other Illustrations.
by Mather (E.J.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Rebman, [1910]. First edition. Red cloth, front cover lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece in color and 24 inserted photographic plates. Spine a bit sunned, short split at upper rear hinge, inner hinges cracking, 1912 prize bookplate on inner front cover; a very good copy in general. A novel of colonial life in Australia; an appendix at the rear provides information for intending tourists or settlers coming to Australia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54392
- Title
- The Squatter's Bairn. With A Coloured Frontispiece by Harold Copping and 24 Other Illustrations.
- Author
- Mather (E.J.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Bookseller catalogs
- Litold;
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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