Lags and Legirons.
by Mackaness, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1944. Hardback small octavo, no jacket (missing), good condition, black & white vignettes, edges foxed, pages & endpapers lightly toned, minor edgewear, tiny dents & faint annotation front endpapers, autograph (author's name & date). 117 pp. A collection of 18 fascinating and entertaining personal essays by educator and researcher George Mackaness about his investigations of Australian history. (The annotation states: "This is the author's own file copy", repeated twice.).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18227
- Title
- Lags and Legirons.
- Author
- Mackaness, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, australian history, research, essays, autograph
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN HISTORY;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
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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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...