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The Blooding

by Wheatley, Nadia

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  • Hardcover
  • first
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Very Good Condition/Good
ISBN 10
0670820296
ISBN 13
9780670820290
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Viking Kestrel, Ringwood, Victoria, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Christopher Meadows -- Cover Art. Bright yellow coloured endpapers. Green coloured boards with white coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Christopher Meadows, with white and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. "17-year-old Col leads a double life. In public he plays football and drinks with the town gang, but in private he escapes to his secret place in the forest. When the greenies come to Col's tiny timber town, he feels. If the logging stops, the local workers will lose their jobs and the town will die. It is the logging continues, the brown scars will soon destroyed Col's green land. Torn between these two forces, Col is painfully initiated into the adult world. A world of compromise and contradiction where right and wrong are inextricably linked." -- front fold over blurb. Rubbing to the book corners, lower book edges and to the backstrip edges. Browning to the text block edges and internal text. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper edges. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 176 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Christopher Meadows -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; fiction -- adolescent; Environment & Ecology. ISBN: 0670820296. ISBN/EAN: 9780670820290. Inventory No: 0110202. . 9780670820290

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Bookseller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
0110202
Title
The Blooding
Author
Wheatley, Nadia
Illustrator
Christopher Meadows -- Cover Art
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0670820296
ISBN 13
9780670820290
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Place of Publication
Ringwood, Victoria
Date Published
1987
Keywords
BZDB2 Fiction, Adolescents, Right of Passage, Greenies, Logging, Forestry, Conflict, Fiction -- Australian Children; fiction -- adolescent; Environment & Ecology. Christopher Meadows -- Cover Art Unbranded ISBN: 0670820296 EAN: 9780670820290 Wheatle
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction -- Adolescent;

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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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