The Restless Waterfront
by Gaby, Capt. James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0869440241
- ISBN 13
- 9780869440247
- Seller
-
Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(Sydney: Antipodean Publishers: 1974) First Edition. ISBN 0 86944 024 1. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 252. Illustrated. 'The true ... day-to-day working life of a wharf foreman who rises in rank to become manager of his company. This book is the genuine story of the Sydney wharfies told with humour, frankness and honesty.' Signed by the Author on the title-page ('Capt. J. Gaby') with an annotation by him on the blank page opposite: 'Graham, This is how it was. J.G.' First Edition. An ownership inscription on the front free endpaper (by the owner to whom the Author's annotation was addressed). Near fine copy in dust-jacket which has a red stain at head of its spine but is otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 186258
- Title
- The Restless Waterfront
- Author
- Gaby, Capt. James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0869440241
- ISBN 13
- 9780869440247
- Publisher
- Antipodean Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- This edition first published
- 1974
- Keywords
- biography autobiography politics australia signed copies
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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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