Station Life in New Zealand
by BARKER, LADY
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
MacMillan & Co 1870. FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL BINDING, octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt embossed lettering to spine, blind stamp rule to boards, deckled page edges, dark green eps, frontispiece of sheep station, xii + 238pp + 40pp adverts, VG- (heavy fading and soiling to spine, and partially to board edges, 7cm crack to external hinge)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 290031
- Title
- Station Life in New Zealand
- Author
- BARKER, LADY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan & Co 1870
- Keywords
- aotearoa nz new zealand farm farming station settlement history memoir
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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