Captain Sweet's Adelaide
by Pike, Philip and Moore, Julian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0959248803
- ISBN 13
- 9780959248807
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Adelaide: Longwood Media. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0959248803 . 1" tear top edge of front panel DJ and spine, light creasing.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 103 pages; "From a disastrous shipwreck on an uncharted Queensland reef to the prim affluence of nineteenth century Adelaide society, Captain Samuel White Sweet experienced much of what made up Australian colonial life in the 1870s and '80s." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17208
- Title
- Captain Sweet's Adelaide
- Author
- Pike, Philip and Moore, Julian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0959248803
- ISBN 13
- 9780959248807
- Publisher
- Longwood Media
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- 0959248803, Australia, Colonial
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Spine
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