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The Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia
by MACKAY, KENNETH
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Richard Bentley and Son 1895. First edition, folding map is present and tidy, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterened eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map, xii + 435pp + 4pp book ads, VG- (cocked, bruising with small tears to cloth to spine extrems, some bruising & fraying to board corners, some rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges & eps, light foxing to page margins)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 185365
- Title
- The Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia
- Author
- MACKAY, KENNETH
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son 1895
- Keywords
- Kenneth Mackay Australian historical literature fiction novel first edition
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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