Disturbing Element.
de Herbert, Xavier; Lindesay, Vane (jacket design)
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire, 1963. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), reverse side jacket & top edge flaps minimally foxed (flap not clipped), vertical faint crease front & rear free flyleaves, edges little foxed, minor edgewear, non-author written name. 271 pp. First edition. An autobiographical account of the first 24 years of the life of Xavier Herbert, the controversial Australian novelist. He recounts his birth on the northwest coast of Western Australia, the son of a prospector turned horse-breaker turned railway engine driver, and his unlikely career as a pharmaceutical chemist, and conversion to Catholicism.
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- Librería
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 30950
- Título
- Disturbing Element.
- Autor
- Herbert, Xavier; Lindesay, Vane (jacket design)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- 1st ed.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- F. W. Cheshire
- Lugar de publicación
- Melbourne
- Fecha de publicación
- 1963
- Palabras clave
- australian biography, autobiography, literature, novels, novelists
- Catálogos del vendedor
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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Annandale, New South Wales
Sobre Bookhome Sydney
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
