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Limited edition of 50 copies. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 156 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 32246: Island For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right. Seller Inventory # 32246
Title: Australian Carnival: A Victorian Incident
Publisher: Self published
Publication Date: 1946
Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. "In a boudoir at Guyscliffe, one of Sydney's oldest colonial homes, there was someone exquisite. To say that she lay in languid grace on a divan drawn comfortably close to the fire, glinting in the dim light, will tell those who remember that it was Adrienne de Chaumont." So begins this novel, set in Australia, which the author dedicates: To Sydney of the nineties/ city of dreams/ when at the age of twenty/ I first wrote this book. 156 pages. An edition of fifty copies, set by hand. Light chipping, wear, and toning to plain paper dust wrapper. Pictorial frontispiece tipped in. Lightly penciled to copyright page: Gift of Alice E. Philipps. Seller Inventory # Books010704
Quantity: 1 available