This Is Australia
by Sasek, M. [Miroslav]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0491000553
- ISBN 13
- 9780491000550
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: W. H. Allen & Co.. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. 0491000553 . Bump to lower edge of rear board. Shelf rubbing to lower edges of boards. Dust-jacket in removable clear plastic. ; 60 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 310 x 219mm. Colour illustrations throughout. "Sasek wings his readers into Sydney, with its famous bridge and space-age Opera House. Later you see bustling, up-to-date Melbourne; explore the colonial charms of Adelaide; visit semi-tropical Brisbane, and Canberra, a garden city planted around a parliament house, Darwin with its many aborigines, lovely Hobart in Tasmania, mineral-rich Perth and Alice Springs, where the annual regatta goes on even when the Todd River runs dry." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22411
- Title
- This Is Australia
- Author
- Sasek, M. [Miroslav]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0491000553
- ISBN 13
- 9780491000550
- Publisher
- W. H. Allen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1970)
- Keywords
- 0491000553
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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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.
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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