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Wild Rivers. Franklin/ Denison/ Gordon
by DOMBROVSKIS, Peter and Bob BROWN
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Sandy Bay: Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sandy Bay, Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. Large quarto, 128 pages with drawings (by Peter Jackson) and numerous colour plates (after photographs by Peter Dombrovskis). Cloth; two small tape stains on each pastedown; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly sunned on the spine and a little cockled on the front panel. A singular copy: the title page is signed by Peter Dombrovskis (1945-1996), Bob Brown and Alan Missen, 'Senator for Victoria' (1925-1986), who 'spoke out against the building of Tasmania's Franklin River dam' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127845
- Title
- Wild Rivers. Franklin/ Denison/ Gordon
- Author
- DOMBROVSKIS, Peter and Bob BROWN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Sandy Bay
- Date Published
- 1983
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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