Walter Murdoch and Alfred Deakin on Books and Men: Letters and Comments 1900 - 1918.
by La Nauze, J. A. (editor); Nurser, Elizabeth (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0522840566
- ISBN 13
- 9780522840568
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 1974. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), frontispiece portraits, top edge foxed, pages faintly toned as usual, minor edgewear jacket, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 108 pp. This book contributes to the biographies of two notable men who are remembered in Australian political history (Prime Minister Alfred Deakin) and cultural history (Walter Murdoch), It consists of letters exchanged between them that recall the literary atmosphere of Edwardian Melbourne.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26930
- Title
- Walter Murdoch and Alfred Deakin on Books and Men: Letters and Comments 1900 - 1918.
- Author
- La Nauze, J. A. (editor); Nurser, Elizabeth (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0522840566
- ISBN 13
- 9780522840568
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press (MUP)
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- communication, letters, books, literature, australian government, victoria
- Bookseller catalogs
- LANGUAGE & BOOKS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...