Australian Book Collectors: Some Noted Australian Book Collectors and Collections of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
by Stitz, Charles (editor); Kirsop, Wallace (preface)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0646533401
- ISBN 13
- 9780646533407
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About This Item
Bendigo, VIC: Bread Street Press / Australian Book Auction Records, 2010. Hardback large octavo, dustjacket, new condition (in new dustjacket), black & white text-photos, few colour plates. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 322 pp. The first authoritative textbook on Australian book collectors. The editor Charles Stitz is a bookseller from Albury, NSW. Charts the lives and fascinating collecting careers of over 100 Australian bibliophiles during the first 200 years of Australia's history. Arranged alphabetically, and mostly written by Stitz. Interspersed with reprinted essays on some of the more famous book collectors. ((Limited edition of 500 copies. The unstated first volume of a 5-volume set. 1 of 2 available copies. Other volumes available.).
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14099
- Title
- Australian Book Collectors: Some Noted Australian Book Collectors and Collections of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
- Author
- Stitz, Charles (editor); Kirsop, Wallace (preface)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0646533401
- ISBN 13
- 9780646533407
- Publisher
- Bread Street Press / Australian Book Auction Records
- Place of Publication
- Bendigo, VIC
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- reference, australian biography, australian history, books, hobbies, collecting, book collectors, bibliophily, bibliophiles, limited edition
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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