Drums of Mer by Idriess, Ion L - 1951

Angus and Robertson 1951. LACKS D/W; octavo hardcover (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1937 Eighth edition. Red cloth titled in black on spine and upper front board, front endpaper map, b&w frontis and illstns. Tight and square, light wear to top edge, light foxing in edges and endpapers. Front flap of dust jacket included.

London: Angus and Robertson, 1947 pp.xviii 342 including Glossary. Illustrated with photographs (All illustrations present) and endpaper maps. Blue cloth with black title on spine. Owner's name and date (15.11.47) written in top corner of front endpaper. Good+ in a fair protected dustjacket.

Sydney: Pacific Books, 1962. 294pp. Pictorial card. Spine creased, slight foxing to page edges. Attractive paperback edition with 7s6d cover price. The nicest copy of this edition I have had.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949 8vo. original purple decorated boards (a little rubbed & nicked, paperstock toned, top edge of half-title clipped; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xii, 276, with illustrations + endpaper map. A very good copy.. New Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

Angus and Robertson 1936. Octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

London: Mayflower-Dell. Fair with no dust jacket. (1966). Softcover. Covers very rubbed and worn, creased and faded. 3" tears to joints at lower end of spine. Foxing. A rough reading copy. ; UK paperback reprint. A 1966 reprint of a novel originally published in 1933. 222 pages + [2] pages advertisements. "A vivid, savagely authentic novel of life among Pacific head-hunters." - from front cover. Page dimensions: 180 x 109mm. .

Angus & Robertson 1936. Octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine & front board, printed front eps, frontispiece, xviii + 378pp + 8pp adverts, illus, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, light discolouration to spine, light scuffing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to verso of frontispiece)

Angus & Robertson Limited, Sydney, 1934. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Poor. Illustrator: Photographic. foreword and author's note. Map illustrated end pages, showing the Torres Strait Islands. Black and white photographic frontispiece, showing Indigenous masks; with, black-and-white photography throughout. Red coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles and illustration to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A novel based on the survivors of a shipwreck the Charles Eaton in the Torres Strait Islands. The story is told from the Indigenous people's perspective. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges; with, bumping, rubbing and a little fraying of the book corners. Fading to the back strip edges, with the extreme edges being most affected. Rubbing and fading of the book edges with rubbing of the panels along with some… Read More

London: Angus & Robertson, 1941. National Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, covers rubbed, insctibed and signed by the author on title-page, to Capt. Soderlund, with photographs, Good without dustjacket.