Proud Intrepid Heart: Leichhardt's First Attempt to the Swan River 1846-1847
by Sprod, Dan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0908528191
- ISBN 13
- 9780908528196
- Seller
-
Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(Hobart: Blubber Head Press: 1989) First Edition. Edition of 600 copies numbered and signed by Dan Sprod, of which this is Number 412. ISBN 0 908528 19 1. Gilt pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xx, 335 (252 x 190 mm) Illustrated. Maps. Notes and References. Bibliography. Index. From the library of the notable collector the late Brian J. Causby, with his bookplate on the recto of the frontispiece. First Edition. A small mark to the lower edge; a fine copy in like dust-jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 178152
- Title
- Proud Intrepid Heart: Leichhardt's First Attempt to the Swan River 1846-1847
- Author
- Sprod, Dan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0908528191
- ISBN 13
- 9780908528196
- Publisher
- Blubber Head Press
- Place of Publication
- Hobart
- This edition first published
- 1990
- Keywords
- australia exploration
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About the Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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