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The Ukulele Player Under the Lamp.
by Macdonald, Alexander; Slessor, Kenneth (contributor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0207124574
- ISBN 13
- 9780207124570
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), edges lightly foxed, some edgewear jacket (reverse side lightly foxed & toned), spine ends & corners scuffed, few foxed spots & light toning endpapers, toned strip free flyleaves 266 pp. Humorous autobiography of Alexander Macdonald, the well-known Sydney humorist. Anecdotes of life on the Australian Broadcasting Commission, of Mo, and of Peter Finch. He spent most of his boyhood in a Catholic seminary school in Scotland. He joined the ABC in Sydney as a writer, and later wrote gags for Jack Davey and Roy Rene (Mo). The poet Kenneth Slessor rounds off the book with a lively panorama of Sydney bohemian life in the 1930s and 40s. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31014
- Title
- The Ukulele Player Under the Lamp.
- Author
- Macdonald, Alexander; Slessor, Kenneth (contributor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0207124574
- ISBN 13
- 9780207124570
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, humour, humor, music, travel, poets, britain, scotland
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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
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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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....