A Gold Seeker's Odyssey
by Menzies, Leslie Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Long. 1937. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, sl. cocked, pp. 288, Index, 8 adverts, b/w frontis portrait, b&w plates. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper, previous owner's stamp front free endpaper, otherwise clean in very good condition. Memoirs of the author on the Australian goldfields and in the north-west. 1st edition. Cloth Boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Muir Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 99858
- Title
- A Gold Seeker's Odyssey
- Author
- Menzies, Leslie Robert
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Long
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Aborigines, America, Australia, Autobiography, Geology, Gold, Goldfields, Mining, New Zealand, North-West Australia
Terms of Sale
Muir Books
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About the Seller
Muir Books
Biblio member since 2006
Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- SL.
- slight
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...