Search Results: Australia by Douglas Pike

Cambridge University Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Very nice copy; clean and tight. Gently yellowed pages. No DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages .

Cambridge University Press, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A couple tiny chips to jacket. .

Cambridge University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Cambridge at the University Press, London, 1966. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations and index. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs and black-and-white plates reproducing contemporary illustrations. Illustrated card cover with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Doctor Pike's subject is the growth of the Australian nation. His main theme is the sober hard-one progress of isolated colonies struggling to increase their population and pay their way. He tells of uneven advance, of success and failure, of windfall wealth. Most of all he tells of efforts of men to make themselves secure in a land starved of capital and private investment." -- from rear panel blurb. Creasing of the book corners with a little rubbing of the book edges and panels. Remains of stickers can be seen to the top edge of the front and rear panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo… Read More

Cambridge University Press. Good. Paperback. 1966. 242 pages. Cover worn<br> .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. The Quiet Continent. Pp. xii+242, 24 plates, text maps and figures, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, name and date (1962) in ink on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1962. Library edition..

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The main theme of this 1998 second edition is the sober hard-won progress of isolated colonies struggling to increase their population and pay their way. It details uneven advance, success and failure, and windfall wealth. It also descr

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New. The main theme of this 1998 second edition is the sober hard-won progress of isolated colonies struggling to increase their population and pay their way. It details uneven advance, success and failure, and windfall wealth. It also describes of efforts of men to make themselves secure in a land starved of capital and private investment.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.