Seven Little Australians
by Ethel Turner
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Ward Lock, UK, 1930's. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Book Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Binding tight, spine fine. Dust Jacket sun faded, titling legible. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges browned slightly. Front free end page removed..
Synopsis
Seven Little Australians (1894) is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot and flighty stepmother Esther. In 1994 the novel was the only book by an Australian author to have been continuously in print for 100 years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45058
- Title
- Seven Little Australians
- Author
- Ethel Turner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ward Lock
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1930's
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Children's Fiction; Unbranded Ethel Turner Seven Little Australians
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Shiny Owl Books
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Mona Vale, New South Wales
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Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...