mate dick de idriess ion (19 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, first thus, 1962. This book is in good condition - edge wear; crease down spine plus smaller crease beside it; pages tanning.

Etat : Fair. 1963. First Edition Thus. 244 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over paper covered boards. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Contains black and white photographic plates. Book has a slight smoky odour. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to front hinge, missing front endpaper. Moderate water staining to pages throughout. Notable tape staining to rear pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Notable scuffing to edges. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Soft cover. Etat : Very good-. Rare paperback edition, mild creasing to spine, covers creased. Name in ink to back of front cover.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good-. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. 1st Edition. Unclipped jacket is barely in one piece, the spine paper has large losses and is holding by a 3-4 cm section jacket is otherwise very tatty. Now in a new protective sleeve so it looks a lot better than the actuality. Gift marked in ink to front free endpaper, boards slight marked and bumped to corners.

soft cover, 193pp, crease to front cover , creases to spine, light tanning, light foxing to edges, some small patches of what might be glue to front cover, but not affecting overall appearance, all in very good clean and tight condition, no loose pages or markings.Originally published in hard cover in 1962 by Angus and Robertson.No ISBN.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Angus & Robertson Ltd Sydney 1962 First Edition VG (red cloth sl worn, bumping on head and foot of spine, edges sl foxed) in VG DW (sl rubbed and worn, creasing on folds and edges of spine, extrems sl bumped, head and foot of spine sl bumped and chipped ).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good+/VG-. 1st Edition. Price clipped jacket has chipping to spine tips, edge wear and some corner erosion. Now in a new protective sleeve.

SOFTCOVER. 1965. A good copy in lightly rubbed wraps and with age tanning of the pages.

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning & foxing to eps & page edges, small damp stain to upper edge of last few pages).

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, tatty/delicate (price clipped, very heavy chipping to edges with some loss at spine extrems, heavy tearing to folds of flaps, moderate chafing).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. Previous owner's name. Boards rubbed and slightly sunned. Jacket rubbed and chipped; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous Owners Inscription On Ffep. Red Cloth Covers. Lightly Bumped Spine. Internally Very Clean.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is worn around the edges and chipped in places. Hardcovers are slightly scuffed on the spine extremes. It is also darkened on the back and worn along the sides.Within the book there is a little tanning and a tiny bit of dampostting. Otherwise very good. 447.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards, dust jacket is in plastic sleeve, minor toning to pages, some loss to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG. Photos, Maps (illustrateur). 1st. This was one of the later books by Ion Idriess, that prolific recorder of life in Australia far from the big cities. It relates the experiences when he and his mate Dick explored the Cape York Peninsula in the years immediately before WWI. They were youngsters prospecting for gold in a wilderness region that was isolated, largely unexplored, sparsely settled, with the Aboriginal people sometimes hostile to European intruders, This is Idriess at his best, recalling their adventures, the dangers and the excitement, as well as the values of that iconic Aussie tradition of "mateship." First edition from Angus and Robertson of 1962. 244 pages, b/w photo frontis, 28 b/w photos, two maps. red hard covers with gilt spine titles VG+, text block excellent, no inscriptions. Price clipped colour art DJ is VG with two short tears spine top, few other minor tears and chips.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 193p., ill., 23 cm. 0.0.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. A straight firm book, owner's name on front blank endpaper, otherwise spotless inside and out. Dust jacket has slight edge wear, spine slight scuffing, price clipped.

xii + 244 pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, monochrome plates, frontispiece. Name on ffe. A very good copy. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Idriess.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good octavo vi + 244pp., frontis., b/w pls., maps, Slight chipping at head & foot of spine o unclipped dust jacket o/w nice bright, tight copy.