Picture Palaces and Flea-Pits: Eighty Years of Australians at the Pictures
by Brand, Simon
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0949825034
- ISBN 13
- 9780949825032
- Seller
-
Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney, Australia: Dreamweaver Books, 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover with white boards and pictorial dust jacket, first edition, 1415gms, 271 pages. This book recreates the grand days of the picture palace. It remembers a world that has well and truly gone and a time of life that was simpler. It is a celebration of the days when the visit to the pictures was the event of the week. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear. Boards and dust jacket are in good condition with only light shelf wear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs over 1kg and may incur additional postage..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reading Habit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HISAUS595
- Title
- Picture Palaces and Flea-Pits: Eighty Years of Australians at the Pictures
- Author
- Brand, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0949825034
- ISBN 13
- 9780949825032
- Publisher
- Dreamweaver Books
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, Australia
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- AUSTRALIAN HISTORY, PICTURE PALACES, MOVIES, MOTION PICTURES,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australiana; Australian History;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Terms of Sale
Reading Habit
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About the Seller
Reading Habit
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Buttaba, New South Wales
About Reading Habit
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...