The Vanished People
by Idriess, Ion L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Some small tears to margins of dust-jacket, with tape repairs on reverse side. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; x, [2], 210 pages + frontispiece + plates. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Maps on endpapers. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. "The reader meets with him the untamed aborigines still pursuing their original way of life, and investigates the mysteries of the cave paintings of the Kimberley gorges and the powers of telepathy exercised by the natives of the Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait islands." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22950
- Title
- The Vanished People
- Author
- Idriess, Ion L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- (1955)
Terms of Sale
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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.
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