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Kangaroo Court
by Jost, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0207957916
- ISBN 13
- 9780207957918
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Angus and Robertson, Brighton, England, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Joe Petagno -- Cover Art. Black coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper by Joe Petagno, with blue and orange titles to the front panel and backstrip. Set in an Australian mining town where a compulsive womaniser, Kovac, has had an affair with all the women within the town. When he turns his roving eye to a young girl the animosity of the men erupts. Bumping to the lower backstrip edge and rubbing to the book corners. Slight dust marks to the top text block edge and light browning to the other text block edges. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. Rubbing to the dustwrapper panels and fading to the backstrip. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear fold over panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. IV, 234 pages, last page blank.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Joe Petagno -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Fiction -- Crime; Australia; ISBN: 0207957916. ISBN/EAN: 9780207957918. Inventory No: 0107833. . 9780207957918
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0107833
- Title
- Kangaroo Court
- Author
- Jost, John
- Illustrator
- Joe Petagno -- Cover Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0207957916
- ISBN 13
- 9780207957918
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Brighton, England
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Novel -- Mining Town -- Australia Fiction; Fiction -- Crime; Australia; Joe Petagno -- Cover Art Unbranded ISBN: 0207957916 EAN: 9780207957918 Jost, John Kangaroo Court
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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- Dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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