Author: Niland, D'Arcy
Title: The Big Smoke
Description: Angus and Robertson, London Sydney Melbourne Wellington, 1959. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Ranging in time from early in the century until the 1920s, this unusual novel has its dominating figure a big city – the Big Smoke – that moulds and is moulded by the lives of its people." – from the front panel blurb. Softening and signing of the backstrip edges with pumping of the lower right-hand corner of the front panel. Dust marks to the top book edge and there is a slight cock of the spine. Light tanning and foxing to the textbook edges with age toning of the pages and scattered foxing throughout. Offset tanning and foxing to the end pages and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down The dustwrapper has seen better days, please photograph. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Some creasing of the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels and dustwrapper creases. Sunning of the backstrip and rear panel, which also shows handling marks and stains. There is a 6.5" transverse tear to the lower edge of the backstrip and rear panel with a rather large piece missing on the lower left-hand corner of the rear panel stop a previous owner has tried to support the tear with tape, and the tape residue is visible. Foxing to the fold over panels and to the verso of the dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 9 - 224 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.
Keywords: BZDB2 Literature, city, early 20th century, Australia, people's lives Literature & Literary; Australia; The Big Smoke
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Title: The Big Smoke
Description: Angus and Robertson, London Sydney Melbourne Wellington, 1959. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Ranging in time from early in the century until the 1920s, this unusual novel has its dominating figure a big city – the Big Smoke – that moulds and is moulded by the lives of its people." – from the front panel blurb. Softening and signing of the backstrip edges with pumping of the lower right-hand corner of the front panel. Dust marks to the top book edge and there is a slight cock of the spine. Light tanning and foxing to the textbook edges with age toning of the pages and scattered foxing throughout. Offset tanning and foxing to the end pages and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down The dustwrapper has seen better days, please photograph. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Some creasing of the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels and dustwrapper creases. Sunning of the backstrip and rear panel, which also shows handling marks and stains. There is a 6.5" transverse tear to the lower edge of the backstrip and rear panel with a rather large piece missing on the lower left-hand corner of the rear panel stop a previous owner has tried to support the tear with tape, and the tape residue is visible. Foxing to the fold over panels and to the verso of the dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 9 - 224 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.
Keywords: BZDB2 Literature, city, early 20th century, Australia, people's lives Literature & Literary; Australia; The Big Smoke
Price: AUD 22.00 = appr. US$ 15.22 Seller: Syber's Books
- Book number: 0128030
- Book number: 0128030
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