Madman's Island
by IDRIESS, ION L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cornstalk Publishing Co1927. Very rare, first edition of author's first book, was a bit of a disaster, rewritten in the 1930s as a non-fiction title, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 228pp, illus, VG- (lacks rear ep, heavy fading & chaffing to spine, moderately heavy fading & staining to boards, some damp staining to rear board fore-edge, red ink staining from boards to edges of first three pages, 5cm closed tear repaired with archival tape to fep upper corner, light tanning to page edges, occasional foxing spots) Both plates present.
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172897
- Title
- Madman's Island
- Author
- IDRIESS, ION L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cornstalk Publishing Co1927
- Keywords
- Ion L Idriess Australian literature adventure ficiton
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