Swimming  Australian Style
by Pollard, Jack (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Foreword by Mr. Justice Herron,President Australian Swimming Union. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and line illustrations. Tan coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with white and aqua coloured titles to the front panel and black and aqua coloured titles to the back strip. A book on will teaching, competing, diving, history of swimming in Australia. There are even chapters devoted to surfing and the Surf Lifesaving Association. Contributors include Dawn Fraser, Andrew (Boy) Charlton, Don Talbot, Forbes Carlyle and Murray Rose, amongst others. Softening of the back strip edges with fading to the top edge  commensurate with loss of dustwrapper. A little bumping of the book corners and there is patchy fading to the top edges. Uniform light tanning of the text block edges with scattered foxing, faint, also present. Offset tanning to the endpages with very faint foxing throughout. The dustwrapper is in shaky shape. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and back strip edges. A few small tears to the top dustwrapper edge and to the lower front edge with associated creasing. Sunning of the back strip and rear panel and handling marks are quite obvious. A black cross has been made to the top right-hand corner of the front panel  please see photograph. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 140, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Swimming; Australia; Inventory No: 0125517. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0125517
- Title
- Swimming – Australian Style
- Author
- Pollard, Jack (editor)
- Illustrator
- Photographic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lansdowne Press
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Swimming, Australian style, anecdotes, techniques, coaching Sports & Pastimes; Swimming; Australia; Photographic Unbranded Pollard, Jack (editor) Swimming  Australian Style
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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