The Desert Column - Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine
by Idriess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1941. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Dust-jacket has extensive paper and masking tape "repairs" on the reverse side, as well as a couple of unrepaired 70mm tears. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; viii, [2], 388 pages. Maps on endpapers. Grey-green cloth boards. Small illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 182mm x 121mm. With a Foreword by General Sir Harry Chauvel. "The 'Desert Column' is more than my diary. It is myself. I began the diary as we crowded the decks off Gallipoli and watched the first shells crash into the Turkish soil. Gradually it grew to be a mania: I would whip out the little book and note, immediately, anything exciting that was happening." - from the Author's Note, page vii. "Evening - An elusive vista of hills behind the dim outline of ships, a faint boom-oom-oom, then, like bursting stars, the shells struck a hillside here, there! over there! here again! everywhere!" - page 1. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22086
- Title
- The Desert Column - Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine
- Author
- Idriess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Eleventh Edition
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1941
Terms of Sale
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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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