This Accursed Land.
by Bickel, Lennard; Hillary, Edmund (foreword)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0333229398
- ISBN 13
- 9780333229392
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Macmillan Press, 1977. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, edges & endpapers lightly foxed, stitches little loose, minor edgewear jacket (tiny scuff top spine). 210 pp. This is the epic and tragic story of Mawson's Australasian party of three men and a team of huskies who set out to explore the far eastern coastline of the Antarctic continent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25256
- Title
- This Accursed Land.
- Author
- Bickel, Lennard; Hillary, Edmund (foreword)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333229398
- ISBN 13
- 9780333229392
- Publisher
- Macmillan Press
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- australian history, exploration, pacific, antarctica, antarctic
- Bookseller catalogs
- PACIFIC & NEW ZEALAND;
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...