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The Pearl Seekers
por Bartlett, Norman
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Livreiro
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London: Andrew Melrose. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. 312 pages + frontis + plates + maps on endpapers. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's signature. Moderate browning to page edges. Cloth covers rubbed and dust stained. Heavy creasing and some tears and chips to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in archival mylar cover. "[...] sets out the whole bloodstained drama of the Pearling trade. It is packed with action and incident, it is full of cut-throats, ne'er-do-wells, rogues and murderers. Through its pages storm and swagger black men, brown men, yellow men and white men pitting their cunning one against the other, pitting their strength against the sea and its perils. " - from blurb on dust wrapper.; 8vo .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 003414
- Título
- The Pearl Seekers
- Autor
- Bartlett, Norman
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Editorial
- Andrew Melrose
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1954
- Palavras-chave
- Australia Pearl Pearling Divers
Termos da venda
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
Sobre o Vendedor
Renaissance Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre 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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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
