Riding The Elephant
by Nancy Keesing
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0041500873
- ISBN 13
- 9780041500875
- Seller
-
Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, black and white illustrations, blue illustrated endpapers. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Pages clean and tight, photographs and delightful illustrations. Light wear to base of boards. Overall a very nice copy. A lovely copy of this memoir that includes much on the Australian literary scene of the Twentieth Century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227
- Title
- Riding The Elephant
- Author
- Nancy Keesing
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0041500873
- ISBN 13
- 9780041500875
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1988-01-01
- Pages
- viii, 234p.
- Size
- 24 cm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Literature; First Edition; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Lansdowne Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Lansdowne Books
Biblio member since 2018
Port Fairy, Victoria
About Lansdowne Books
Lansdowne Books is an independent online store specialising in Antiquarian and Quality Secondhand books. We are based in regional Victoria and offer our collection from around the world. It is possible to collect items from Port Fairy, Victoria Australia.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...