Down Under
by Bryson, Bill
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Book Club Associates. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; First printing of book club edition BCA CN4634. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. DJ artwork by David Cook. ; 336 pages; Before he went there Bryson had envisioned Australia as an alternative Southern California, a place of constant sunshine and a beach lifestyle with a slightly British twist - Baywatch with cricket. Of course what greeted him was something quite different - the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. A land teeming with life, a vast proportion of which can kill you... .
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- Seller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 14827
- Title
- Down Under
- Author
- Bryson, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Book Club Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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Glossary
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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