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John Grant's Journey: A Convict's Story 1803-11
by Hill-Reid, W. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1957. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine; small bit of surface wear only to cloth near top front edge. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white plates. 222 pages with index. Dust jacket is not price clipped, a few short closed edge tears, tiny chip at lower spine corner; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. True story of a young Englishman who committed a crime of passion and was sent to a penal colony in Australia. Records some remarkable first-hand impressions of early Australian life, and the odyssey of one suffering human spirit..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32875
- Title
- John Grant's Journey: A Convict's Story 1803-11
- Author
- Hill-Reid, W. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, JOHN GRANT, FIRST EDITION, W. S. HILL-REID, 19TH CENTURY HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australia;
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- Jacket
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- New
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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