Before The Lamps Are Lit
by Quin, Tarella; Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Melbourne: George Robertson & Company. [1911]. Oblong Octavo Size. Good condition. Illustrated dark green, red and black covers. Corners, edges and spine ends lightly rubbed. Spine sunned. Binding a little loose with mild cracking between contents page and firt story title page but still solid. Some faint scattered foxing to endpapers. Illustrated with 26 full page black and white and a number of in-text illustrations by the famous Australian fairy artist, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. 189 pages. A good copy of this scarce title. Consists of six imaginative Australian children's stories by Tarella Quin [Daskein] 1877-1934. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition [Muir -1907]. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB319912
- Title
- Before The Lamps Are Lit
- Author
- Quin, Tarella; Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition [Muir -1907]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Robertson & Company
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- [1911]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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