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The Wild White Man of Badu
by Idriess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Dust-jacket taped into plastic jacket. 40mm chip to front panel of dust-jacket. Adhesive tape stains to boards. Map on rear pastedown endpaper partly obscured by library label, a photocopy of the unobscured map has been tipped in. ; 232 pages + frontispiece + 18 illustrations on 6 plate leaves + maps on endpapers. Green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23159
- Title
- The Wild White Man of Badu
- Author
- Idriess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1950)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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