Strike-a-Light the Bushranger and Other Australian Tales.
by Muir, Marcie (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 024102241X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241022412
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1972. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good plus dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (top jacket little worn & creased, reverse side lightly toned, flaps little foxed), edges lightly foxed, pages lightly toned, top spine & cover little bumped. 150 pp. Editor Marcie Muir (bibliographer of children's books) has compiled an anthology of stories and extracts which are vastly entertaining in themselves and which reflect changes in style and fashion of Australian writing for children. The selection of stories range from the humour of Norman Lindsay and the inimitable Ethel Turner, to the excitement of Olaf Ruhen, Henry Lamond, Ivan Southhall and Patricia Wrightson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27821
- Title
- Strike-a-Light the Bushranger and Other Australian Tales.
- Author
- Muir, Marcie (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 024102241X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241022412
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- young adults fiction, australian fiction, short stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- YOUNG ADULTS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Octavo
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- Flap(s)
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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- Spine
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