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Portrait of a Savage
de Turnbull, G. Munro
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Sydney: Currawong Publishing Co, 1943. Hardcover. 250p., plus Currawong menu of related publications, hardbound first edition in 7.5x5 inch brown cloth cloth boards lettered black, slight edgewear to casing, generic bookplate (unsigned) on pastedown, textblock edges a bit toned, lacks the jacket, in all other respects a good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. The party behind Currawong Publishing thought Turnbull a genuine Australian talent, useful to future colonial administrators in Papua. Another Aussie publisher thought Turnbull's novel "unclean" and contrary to received religion, all part of the then ongoing dispute about Australian "literature" versus "the real stuff
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- Librería
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 296804
- Título
- Portrait of a Savage
- Autor
- Turnbull, G. Munro
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Currawong Publishing Co
- Lugar de publicación
- Sydney
- Fecha de publicación
- 1943
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern first edition; Racism; Ethnology; Australia;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
Sobre Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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