The South Seas (Melanesia)
by Abbott, J. H. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Adam and Charles Black: 1908) First Edition. Peeps at Many Lands series. Muir 8243. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) with coloured pictorial pastedown on front pp. viii, 84 and 4 publisher's advertisements. Illustrated by Norman Hardy. Map. First Edition. Prize label on front free endpaper. A little flecking and rubbing to the cloth, and rubbing to head and foot of its spine, otherwise a near fine copy.
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Fine
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