Pearls and Savages: Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea in New Guinea
by Hurley, Frank
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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GLEBE, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Hong Kong: JAC Press, 1981. Limited Edition. hardcover. very good. Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. Facsimile of Putnam's 1924 edition. Limited edition, of which this is number 3 of 1,000. Includes original presentation box, still in good condition, but with parts of the cardboard missing, unnoticeable unless opened, and with other stains and wear, and titling slightly rubbed off (see photo). Jacket in very good condition, with minor marks and wear. Boards in fine condition, gilt titling on spine and front board bright and clean. Prior owner's signature and small inscription on front free endpaper. Gilt to top edge of page block in bright, fine condition, small dent. Minor foxing to page block edges, endpapers, and jacket. Text clean and free of annotations or foxing. Sappho Cathal 3/21 Cathal 11/22
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sappho Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79451
- Title
- Pearls and Savages: Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea in New Guinea
- Author
- Hurley, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- JAC Press
- Place of Publication
- Hong Kong
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 414pp
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Sappho Books
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GLEBE, New South Wales
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- Fine
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- Facsimile
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- Gilt
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