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The Touch
by McCullough, Colleen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0712680519
- ISBN 13
- 9780712680516
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Century, London, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with gilt and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and gilt and brown coloured titles to the backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. The Touch spans the latter half of the 19th century on New South Wales goldfields, a place where staggering fortunes were made. The story of Alexander and his women occurs amid the birth pangs of a nation, at a time when power belong to men, and women were walled in by terrible obstacles. But power must be paid for, and obstacles can be shattered. -- front fold over blurb. A little rubbing of the backstrip edges and of the book corners. Light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 3 - 520 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0712680519. ISBN/EAN: 9780712680516. Inventory No: 0129485. . 9780712680516
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0129485
- Title
- The Touch
- Author
- McCullough, Colleen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0712680519
- ISBN 13
- 9780712680516
- Publisher
- Century
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Fiction, family saga, love story, generations, Australia Fiction; Unbranded ISBN: 0712680519 EAN: 9780712680516 McCullough, Colleen The Touch
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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