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Stone of Destiny
by Idriess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1953). Hardcover. Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Rebound. Dust-jacket in plastic cover with adhesive edges, taped to boards and endpapers. Dust-jacket flaps cropped close to the text. ; 1953 reprint of a title first published in 1948. 344 pages + frontispiece + 1 map. Rebound in red cloth boards. Page dimensions: 210 x 136mm. "Here are tales of historical diamonds, of intrigue, of fortunes won and lost, of the old Mogul and Persian conquerors, of the glittering courst of France and Tsarist Russia. But the surprise in the story is the diamonf fields of Australia, the romance of the Inverell diamond fields where for years rough diamonds were washed away by the tin miners as worthless pebbles." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18834
- Title
- Stone of Destiny
- Author
- Idriess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1953)
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
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