Canterbury Sketches; or, Life from The Early Days
by Pilgrim (C. L. Innes)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Christchurch: "Lyttelton Times" Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, General Assembly Library of New Zealand, Parliamentary Library. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. Corners of boards softened. Library label on front endpaper. Owner's name and address on reverse of frontispiece. ; v, [5], 209, [6], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Green limp cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 179 x 118mm. [Reference: Bagnall 2818 : "The author's recollections of the first ten years of Canterbury with a generous infusion of supporting quotations from those of sharper memory."] .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 24147
- Title
- Canterbury Sketches; or, Life from The Early Days
- Author
- Pilgrim (C. L. Innes)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- "Lyttelton Times" Office
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
- Date Published
- 1879
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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