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Walking the Simpson Desert
by Bonython, C Warren
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide, SA : Rigby, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Octavo (standard book size). Black and white and colour photos. The story of how the author and a companion crossed the Simpson Desert towing an aluminium trolley. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 160 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket has wear on edges,creases on edges and significant fading on the spine. . Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Boards have some shelf wear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Exploration; Australian Explorers & Exploration; ISBN: 0727011731. ISBN/EAN: 9780727011732. Main Picture: Front cover. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52188. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges very slightly spotted or marked Boards have some shelf wear
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52188
- Title
- Walking the Simpson Desert
- Author
- Bonython, C Warren
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rigby
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide, SA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 160
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Australian Explorers & Exploration BZDB397 exploration, Simpson Desert, Northern Territory, Queensland Exploration; Australian Explorers & Exploration; Walking the Simpson Desert
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Biblio member since 2020
Yungaburra, Queensland
About Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Books sourced from all over the world adorn our shelves. We carry a general range of books, some 18,000, including fiction and non-fiction in all genres. We stock collectibles, rare and antiquarian and many out-of-print books. Lonely Planet described Spencer & Murphy Booksellers as "the best bookshop in the North" and we are known as a treasure trove of books and often as Aladdin's Cave of Books.
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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
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