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Bush Characters: Yarns and Verse from the Outback
by Howcroft, Wilbur G
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0091573416
- ISBN 13
- 9780091573416
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Hawthorn, Victoria: Century Hutchinson Australia. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1986). First Edition. Softcover. 0091573416 . Previous owner's signature. Some marginalia. Some rubbing to edges of covers.; 200 pages. Page dimensions: 213 x 135mm. Illustrated by Vane Lindesay. "Old swaggies, brash greenhorns, naive city-slickers and eccentric cockies are just some of the bush characters celebrated in these light-hearted tales, and in a broad miscellany of verse which is in turn nostalgic and nonsensical, saucy and serious, warm and whimsical." - from blurb on rear cover. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18434
- Title
- Bush Characters: Yarns and Verse from the Outback
- Author
- Howcroft, Wilbur G
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0091573416
- ISBN 13
- 9780091573416
- Publisher
- Century Hutchinson Australia
- Place of Publication
- Hawthorn, Victoria
- Date Published
- (1986)
- Keywords
- 0091573416
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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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- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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