Blakeley Fred (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is an ex-library copy. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with only light wear along the edges and at corners, some adhesive tape stains from plastic cover, spine is solid with minor bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: unstained, usual library stickers & stamps. Dust Jacket: intact with only light scuffing on surface and wear along edges, has been neatly covered & protected in clear plastic by library personnel. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 10'' x 7''. Contains 240 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781848320727 SHIPPING (Liners, Merchant).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Book condition is very good if it age. Published 1972, 1st edition. Dust jacket Fair condition, I have stickey tape the inner side on the front dust jacket as was seperated fron the front side. Also the dust jacket has alot of wear front top and bootom, the back of the dustjacket has wear same. Book block clean all sides. No foxing. Text clean throughout the book. ex-owner inscribed note on the first fly leaf page. Book board clean front and back. Spine intact. Over-all a great and neat copy of book, except for dust jacket which is fair or poor. See photos for more information. RARE AND SCARCE BOOK. In this sensational document the full and authentic story of the search for Lasseter's lost reef in the 1930 is told for the first time. Blakely was a leader of the expedition that set out in that year, under Lassester's guidance, to try to find the lost reef. For some years he forbore to write the story; then he hesitated to publish it; and only now ten years after his death, has the manuscript come to light. In the 1930, when Lasseter made his claim, stories of a fabulously rich lost reef in Central Australia had been current for many years, and many expeditions has set out from Alice Springs in search of it. But Lasseter claimed to have been the original discoverer of the reef, which he said he has first deen in 1900. Now, after a gap of thirty years, he was confident that he could relocate it. There were company promoters and investors to share his confidence and finance an elaborate expedition that set out with trucks and an aeroplane.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Clean red cloth boards, with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated map endpapers. DW has some small tears and creasing, with tape repairs to reverse. DW unclipped. Pages are bright and clean, with no foxing and no inscriptions. Binding is tight. An excellent copy overall. 187pp. (14.5x22.5cm). Please contact us for any more information.

First Edition. Edited by Mary Mansfield. Pp. [viii]+188(last blank), endpaper maps; demy 8vo; tan boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, signs of sticker removal near top fore-corner of front panel, the backstrip a trifle faded, price sticker at foot of front flap; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1972. First edition. *Fred Blakeley was the leader of the expedition that set out in 1930, under Harold Lasseter's guidance, to try to find the 'lost reef' in Central Australia.