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Sitting Duck: A True Story.
by Fraser, Bryce
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0261632264
- ISBN 13
- 9780261632264
- Seller
-
Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white photos, faint toning reverse side jacket (edge tears, minor edgewear, small chip top edge rear cover), faint foxing edges, endpapers lightly toned, bottom corners lightly bumped. 192 pp. Sitting Duck: A True Story, by Bryce Fraser (MacGibbon & Kee, 1971). The true story of Dora, a fresh-water duck who loves salt water, who won the heart of an Australian magazine writer who was allergic to duck feathers. This charming book, with over 50 photos and amusing text, will delight anyone who loved Born Free.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24425
- Title
- Sitting Duck: A True Story.
- Author
- Fraser, Bryce
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0261632264
- ISBN 13
- 9780261632264
- Publisher
- MacGibbon & Kee
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- australian biography, pets, birds, ducks
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...