The Isles That Wait
by A Lady Member of the Melanesian Mission
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowlege: 1912) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 128 and 8 publisher's adverts. Illust. Map. An ownership inscription on half-title page and an owners signature on title page. Edges foxed and a little foxing, mainly marginal internally. Ink spots to rear board and lower edge; a very good copy.
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Foxed
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- Title Page
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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