Ratatui
by Ovenden, Keith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0908636024
- ISBN 13
- 9780908636020
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
Auckland, New Zealand: Benton Ross, 1984. Blue cloth, gilt text to spine. 242 pp. Top edge has light dust spotting. A very light trace of foxing to rear fep and fore edge of text block. Ffep has name crossed out and tiny wite-out mark. Clean and firmly bound. DJ has minor rubbing to edges. A richly comic satire of New Zealand society, institutions and times. Ratatui taps into the vein of New Zealand humour, captures the essence of the New Zealand character and offers penetrating insights into the New Zealand political scene. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Ratatui
- Author
- Ovenden, Keith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0908636024
- ISBN 13
- 9780908636020
- Publisher
- Benton Ross
- Place of Publication
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Comic Satire of New Zealand Society
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Zealand Fiction;
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