Stone of Destiny
by Idriess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Good in Good dust jacket. (1953). Hardcover. Heavy foxing to page edges. Previous owner's name and address. 1" missing at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1953 reprint of a title first published in 1948. 344 pages + frontispiece + 1 map. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 213 x 138mm. "Here are tales of historical diamonds, of intrigue, of fortunes won and lost, of the old Mogul and Persian conquerors, of the glittering courst of France and Tsarist Russia. But the surprise in the story is the diamonf fields of Australia, the romance of the Inverell diamond fields where for years rough diamonds were washed away by the tin miners as worthless pebbles." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19924
- Title
- Stone of Destiny
- Author
- Idriess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1953)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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