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ST. CATHERINE'S: A Centenary Celebration 1896-1996
by Hansen, D.E. & I.V. (Edited by)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0958678502
- ISBN 13
- 9780958678506
- Seller
-
Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Ivanhoe East, Victoria, Australia: The Helicon Press, 1996. xiii, + 321pp. B/white and colour photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Plain blue boards have a very small spot to lower front panel. Faint foxing flecks to upper textblock edge. else leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated dustjacket softly edge-creased, plus an area of creasing to lower front panel. From the jacket flap: "St. Catherine's School in Heyington Place, Toorak - one of Australia's finest independent girls' schools - is a very different school from that founded in Castlemaine a hundred years ago . . . The move to Heyington Place in 1923 enabled St. Catherine's to expand under a succession of capable but very different women who shaped a school that has produced Rhodes Scholars and Olympic athletes, actresses and artists, judges and engineers. The history of the School's first hundred years has been edited, and half its chapters written, by Dorothy and Ian Hansen, assisted by the able team of specialist contributors they selected . . . " Contents include: Prologue. 15 chapters. Epilogue. Appendixes: Chairmen of Council; Life Governors; Captains of the School; Members of Staff 1996; St Catherone's Students 1896-1996. Notes. Select Bibliography. Notes on Contributors. Index. Book weight approx. 1.37KG. *Customers outside Australia only - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote. . First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good+. 4to - (approx. 27.75cm x 21.5cm).
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- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014803
- Title
- ST. CATHERINE'S: A Centenary Celebration 1896-1996
- Author
- Hansen, D.E. & I.V. (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0958678502
- ISBN 13
- 9780958678506
- Publisher
- The Helicon Press
- Place of Publication
- Ivanhoe East, Victoria, Australia
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 4to - (approx. 27.75cm x 21.5cm)
- Keywords
- St Catherine's School, Toorak, Victoria, Private School History, Victoria, Australia, Private Education
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian Local History; Australiana; Education/Reference;
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