Search Results: horrie the wog dog written by idriess ion l

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1955. Book. Very good-. Hardcover. Nice looking copy of this hardcover edition which retains all the original plates. In stock no wait for printing to occur. Cigarette tobacco odour.

Anugs & Robertson 1951. Ex library, octavo, pink-ish heavy card boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 232pp, illus, VG- (owners' names in ink x 3 to fep & front pastedown, heavy bruising with loss to spine extrems, heavy browning to page edges, some staining to boards, moderate tanning, v light library markings)

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1955.. x+234pp. 8vo. Original boards in slightly chipped dustwrapper, black and white frontispiece and plates, gift inscription on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Good in Poor dust jacket. (1955). Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription dated 1955. Heavy bruising and creasing to lower corners of boards. Incomplete dust-jacket, lacking rear panel. Rear flap of dust-jacket present. Front flap is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Fifth printing, April 1951 (the first printing was in 1945). x, 232, [1], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Mauve boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 182 x 118mm. "This is the story of Horrie, who was found as a queer little homeless pup in the Western Desert and became a true Digger. It has been put into its present form by Ion Idriess, who had it from the diary of Horrie's master, Pte J. B. Moody, Machine Gun Battalion, and from others of his friends." - from dust-jacket blurb. Selected contents: Introducing the Desert, the Pup, and the Rebels; The Wog-Dog Enlists; The Wog-Dog embarks for the… Read More

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Previous owner's contemporary inscription to pastedown. Boards a litte rubbed. Jacket edge worn, old tape marks to verso ; B&W Photographs; 182x120mm; (x,232,2) pages .

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1948 12mo. original tan boards (a little rubbed & bumped, spine a little slanting, prev. ownership details to FFE, small chip to corner RFE, occ. mark, else internally clean; lacks dustwrapper); pp. x, 234 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy. Newspaper article reporting the death of Jim Moody, loosely enclosed.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Good+ in Poor dust jacket. (1955). Hardcover. No signatures. Some foxing and dust stains to top page edges. A large tear right across front panel of dust-jacket. Some other chips and tears up to 1" to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Sixth printing, 1955 (the first printing was in 1945). x, 232, [1] pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Brown boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 122mm. "This is the story of Horrie, who was found as a queer little homeless pup in the Western Desert and became a true Digger. It has been put into its present form by Ion Idriess, who had it from the diary of Horrie's master, Pte J. B. Moody, Machine Gun Battalion, and from others of his friends." - from dust-jacket blurb. Selected contents: Introducing the Desert, the Pup, and the Rebels; The Wog-Dog Enlists; The Wog-Dog embarks for the Front; The… Read More

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1955. x, 232pp, frontis and b/w plates. Or tan cloth in jacket. Black mark on cloth near spine at front. Light even toning to page egdes. Jacket has several short tears/chips and triangular piece torn from top of front panel, rubbed at folds. Horrie's adventures in the Army.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1951 VG+/VG.12mo. original tan boards (a little rubbed & bumped, hinges just starting, paperstock slightly tanned and spotted) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & a little nicked); pp. x, 244 (last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy.. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.