The Battling Prophet
by Upfield, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
William Heinemann Ltd, London : Melbourne: Toronto, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with yellow coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. Another outing of inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. Bony is on leave from the Queensland Police and is visiting an old friend, John Luton, near Adelaide. Luton's best friend, Ben Wickham, meteorologist an eerily accurate long range weather forecaster, had died, ostensibly, from a three week drinking jag, where the doctor had certified cause of death as delirium tremens. John Luton disagrees, and tells Bony whatever Ben died of it was not drink. Bony sets out to investigate .... Softening of the backstrip edges with a bump to the top corner of the rear panel. Some fading of the backstrip. Tanning and heavy foxing of the textblock edges with age toning and the occasional foxing spot to the pages. Offset tanning to the end pages with gift inscription to the top right-hand corner of the free front end page. Softening of the backstrip edges with a bump to the top corner of the rear panel. Some fading of the backstrip. Tanning and heavy foxing of the textblock edges with age toning and the occasional foxing spot to the pages. Offset tanning to the end pages with gift inscription to the top right-hand corner of the free front end page. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). (6), 226 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Australia; Inventory No: 0129081. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0129081
- Title
- The Battling Prophet
- Author
- Upfield, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London : Melbourne: Toronto
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- BZDB2 crime, fiction, Australian, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Bony, Aboriginal Crime Fiction; Australia; Unbranded Upfield, Arthur The Battling Prophet
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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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...