The Boy in the Bush
by D H Lawrence & M L Skinner
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Hythe, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First US edition. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 13cm, 388pp. Jack Grant arrives in Western Australia in 1882, having been expelled from his public school and then sent down from an agricultural college. He experiences hunting, farming, gold mining, fights and his first love of women. His character is forged by the Australian landscape and its hard, no-nonsense people. From the young boy emerges a tough Lawrentian hero. Condition: A good copy, with some rubbing to the blue cloth and light foxing and tanning to the pages. It remains in strong readable condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cox and Budge Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014205
- Title
- The Boy in the Bush
- Author
- D H Lawrence & M L Skinner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Seltzer
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...