The Yield.
by Tara June Winch
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F/FINE
- ISBN 10
- 0008437076
- ISBN 13
- 9780008437077
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "WINNER OF THE 2020 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus ? * Impression: 1st Stated "1".* Date of Publication: 2021.* Publisher: Harper Via. * Binding and cover condition: Purple brown cloth covered boards, gilt title & illustration to spine only. No bumps or rubs. No marks. FINE (AS NEW).* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper with maroon and yellow shaded titles to spine and face. No shelf wear to top or bottom edges, head or tail of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE (AS NEW).* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (orange brown). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE (AS NEW).* Illustrations: NONE. * Pages: 306 pp. text. viii pp. Dictionary, Author's note, acknowledgements, notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: The peoples, languages and wildlife of Australia have been purposely decimated for a great many years. The history of this vast land is a tragic one and this young Indigenous author has taken it on in a graceful act of retrieval and witness. The dictionary and use of Wiradjuri words is transporting. Birrabuwawanha – to return, to come back. "The Yield is a fine novel and one not without hope." Joy William, Author of The Quick and the Dead. * A FINE (AS NEW) copy of the 1st./1st. with no visible faults in a FINE (AS NEW) dust jacket now in a clear un-attached protective jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10343
- Title
- The Yield.
- Author
- Tara June Winch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Jacket Condition
- FINE
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0008437076
- ISBN 13
- 9780008437077
- Publisher
- Harper Via.
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 344
- Keywords
- Novel, Fiction, Aboriginese, Australian History.
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