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Against the Law
by Peter Wildeblood
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Quality Book Club, No date. Book Club Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. From the Dust Jacket: "In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for homosexual offences. The case in which he was involved - the 'Montagu Case' - was the subject of considerable controversy and was largely responsible for the Government's decision to set up a Committee to enquire into the whole question of homosexuality and the laws relating to it." Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges slightly foxed. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 3. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; Gay & Lesbian. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 8335. .
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- Seller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8335
- Title
- Against the Law
- Author
- Peter Wildeblood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Quality Book Club
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB1 True Crime; Gay & Lesbian. Peter Wildeblood Against the Law
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gay & Lesbian;
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About the Seller
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Biblio member since 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
About Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
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