Wally and the Major: A Courier-Mail Feature (Unstated 5th Edition).
by Cross, Stan
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd / Lawrence Kay (Printer), 1945. Unstated 5th ed.. Paperback oblong quarto, good plus condition, stapled pamphlet (staples little rusted), cartoons, white cloth spine repair, pages toned as usual, small piece missing top edge rear cover (repaired), covers & some page margins little foxed, some edgewear (corner tips). 50 pp. Unstated fifth edition. A collectible cartoon books by Stan Cross, as published for the Courier Mail newspaper, Brisbane. Cover: Wally and the Major supervising dark-skinned canecutters. Editorial states: "The war-time trio of funsters, Wally, Pudden and the Major, have been honorably relieved of their military duties - a relief no doubt - and have transferred their disconcerting efforts to Industry .. they lost no time .. heading for the wide open spaces of the North." Seppelts wine advert rear cover. Sixpence price. (Undated, but 1945. 6d price stated. This annual cartoon book was produced by Herald and Weekly Times newspapers from 1940 to 1960.).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17760
- Title
- Wally and the Major: A Courier-Mail Feature (Unstated 5th Edition).
- Author
- Cross, Stan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Unstated 5th ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herald and Weekly Times Ltd / Lawrence Kay (Printer)
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- humour, humor, cartoons, media, newspapers, australia, victoria, queensland, collectible, collectable
- Bookseller catalogs
- HUMOUR & CARTOONS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...