The Dancing Bough.
by Cato, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1957. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), edges lightly foxed, pages lightly toned, corners front cover slightly bumped, some edgewear jacket (reverse side lightly toned, top corners scuffed, tiny tear top corner, white background rear cover & spine lightly foxed & toned, flap price-clipped), light foxing endpapers & title page, some spotty toning some pages. 40 pp. This collection of poems by Australian novelist Nancy Cato has a focus on the landscape, particularly of the river and vineyard country which the author in her writing has made her own. The poems also show a landscape of the spirit, glimpsed even in those poems that appear to be simple.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30894
- Title
- The Dancing Bough.
- Author
- Cato, Nancy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- literature, poems, poetry, australian society, collectible, collectable
- Bookseller catalogs
- POETRY & CRITICISM;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
Glossary
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...