WHALING AROUND AUSTRALIA
by COLWELL, Max
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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East Victoria Park, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide, Rigby first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Australia's first whaling industry was pursued with such zest that it reduced the whales from the coastline to almost zero. Other nations were then able to follow them into their Antarctic breeding grounds leaving a fraction of their population intact. 220 x 144mm., pp. 12 (prelim.), 178, b/w plates, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. EX LIBRARY. Contents, ""Cancelled"" stamp ffep, tape marks on endpapers - no pockets or other rubbish, d.j., tape stains top/bottom, closed tears on edges. VG/nearVG
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- Seller
- EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- a5eb16eaa0988231d4fad21d
- Title
- WHALING AROUND AUSTRALIA
- Author
- COLWELL, Max
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- first edition - hard cover in dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adelaide, Rigby
- Date Published
- 1969
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Biblio
- The Greek root for a variety of words referring to the book, such as bibliography, bibliomania, etc. Also, one of the world's...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...