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Far-Away Places
by Loudon, William
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0908790023
- ISBN 13
- 9780908790029
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Coatbridge: Craig Printers. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1954]. First Edition. Softcover. 0908790023 . Large 3 1/2" chip to title page, with loss of part of the title lettering. Lower corners of leaves creased and dog-eared. Moderate staining, foxing, and fading to wrappers.; 71 pages. Printed card wrappers. Kiwi illustration on front wrapper. Page dimensions: 218 x 140mm. Verse and prose on the subject of the author's trip to New Zealand. New Zealand poetry. Selected contents: Nelson; Blenheim; Hanmer; Dunedin; Southern Lakes; West Land and Glaciers. "Gold in the river / Has got to be panned, Because it has sunk / To the bottom of the sand." ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11644
- Title
- Far-Away Places
- Author
- Loudon, William
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0908790023
- ISBN 13
- 9780908790029
- Publisher
- Craig Printers
- Place of Publication
- Coatbridge
- Date Published
- [c1954]
- Keywords
- 0908790023
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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.
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