Lightning Ridge: The Land of Black Opals
by Idiess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1947. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp viii. 234. Extensive chips missing from upper front of dustjacket, head and foot of dustjacket spine chipped, price-clipped, now protected. Boards good. Previous owner's name written along outside edge of pages, o/w text clean. Good copy in poor d.j. Autobiographical account of the author's early days, including horsebreaking, shearing and mining opals at Lightning Ridge. Reprint. Boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Muir Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87507
- Title
- Lightning Ridge: The Land of Black Opals
- Author
- Idiess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Australia, Autobiography, Gems, Mining, New South Wales, Queensland
Terms of Sale
Muir Books
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About the Seller
Muir Books
Biblio member since 2006
Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
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- O/W
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- Cloth
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- Poor
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