The Tin Scratchers
IDRIESS, Ion L.
Published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959
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A near fine first edition copy in brown cloth binding, a small name just inside the front cover. The dust jacket is unclipped, minor wear to corners, in a clear film protective sleeve. Seller Inventory # 039372
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Tin Scratchers
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
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THE TIN SCRATCHERS
Published by
ANGUS & ROBERTSON
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Barclay Books, York, WA, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
HARDCOVER. 1959, First edition. A very good copy in a facsimile d/w. Seller Inventory # 25414163
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The Tin Scratchers
Published by
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A glimpse into the "land of gold", an area of Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland, where Idriess went into the jungle to live and work with the hard-bitten pioneers of the tin fields. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Includes frontispiece. Dustjacket artwork by Clem Seale. With gilt silver compass design stamped to front board (second printing in the same year had no silver compass). With Yarrawonga High School Award label affixed to ffep & laid-in details regarding the same school's speech night in 1959 (the year of the book's publication), see photographs. Printed in Australia. Bound in original brown boards with bright silver lettering to spine & silver compass design to front board, map endpapers, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Slight handling wear, dustjacket with closed tears & insect nibbles at folds, award label affixed to ffep, slightly musty, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. xii + 260pp. SB-38. Seller Inventory # 037388
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The Tin Scratchers
Published by
Angus and Robertson Ltd, Sydney, 1959
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Browsers Books, Hamilton, NZ, New Zealand
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Angus and Robertson Ltd Sydney 1959 First Edition 260pp illus (bw w map on endpapers) VG (brown clothw title in gilt on spine, sl worn, head and foot of spine sl bumped and faded, edges sl foxed) in VG- DW ( rubbed and worn, chipping and bumping on extrems,l closed tearon rear repaired internally, price clipped, plastic protected). Seller Inventory # 001969
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The Tin Scratchers
Published by
Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1959
Used
Hardcover
Seller: BOPBooks, Tauranga, BOP, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Photos, Map e/papers (illustrator). 1st. Tales by Ion Idriess, usually based on his experiences throughout the Out Back and in remote areas, have become an Aussie literary legend. Not only were his book prolific but his travels and experiences described in them were as varied as the places visited. "The Tin Scratchers" is set in the far noth of Queensland. The author arrived there to try his hand at tin mining in the early 1900s, when still in his teens, or just out of them. The fortune hunting bug had captured him and the "Scratchers," like so many of his texts bring clarity to the contitions in which these pioneer prospectors/miners, and thousands of others, experienced in areas ranging from jungle to near desert. His portrayal of the "cobbers" he worked with are forceful reminders of the dinkum Aussies who pushed out to new boundaries as pioneers and Australia's frontiersmen. For those reasons alone, Ion Idriess books are a vital, down-to-earth complement to Australia's formal, academic histories. Persistant popularity of his writing is proof of that. First edition of 1959, 260 pages, illustrated with 31 b/w photos, end-paper maps. Brown hard covers are VG with silver spine titles plus a silver compass decoration lower front corner. This copy from a lending library and the use of the FFEP map as a replacement issue sheet, with about a dozen date lines, is an iadverse factor of the boo,k. There are no further library marks through the text or at the back pages and the text block is VG with an occasional small mark. The art DJ is VG, plastic protected and while the background to the front panel may be slightly faded the figures etc retain their colour.The jacket has been secured to the paste-downs with browned tape. Seller Inventory # 005322
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The Tin Scratchers.
Published by
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1959
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xii, 260pp, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Tape stains to endpapers, page edges evenly toned. True first with silver compass to front board (a second printing the same year lacks the compass). Very nice jacket-NOT price clipped. A glimpse into the mineral rich tip of Cape York Peninsula where Idriess went to live and work among the pioneers of the tin fields. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 053024
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The Tin Scratchers
Published by
Angus & Robertson, Sydney,, 1959
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Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
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First edition. Hardcover, octavo; brown boards with silver gilt spine titling and lower front board decoration, map endpapers; 260pp., monochrome plates and photographic frontispiece. Owner's name stamp. Minor wear; mildly toned text block and page edges. Illustrated dustwrapper slightly rubbed and spine panel slightly faded; tiny missing segment on head of spine. Very good to near fine and protected in archival film with white paper backing. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Seller Inventory # 89399
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THE TIN SCRATCHERS.
Published by
Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1959., 1959
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
xii+260pp. 8vo. Original boards in crisp dustwrapper, a touch faded on backstrip. B/w plates. Endpaper maps. A very good copy. First edition. Seller Inventory # 111908
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The Tin Scratchers ~ The Story of Tin Mining in the Far North
Seller: E. Manning Books, Robertsdale, AL, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Angus & Robertson. First publshed in 1959. This Queensland Classic Edition published 1980. Softcover (13 x 19 cm), xiv, 260 pages, b&w photographs. ISBN: 0207140987. Good condition. Wraps are bumped, scuffed, creased and soiled. Moisture stain along top edge of front cover. Spine is slanted and creased. Skewed. Bookstore stamp of half title page (first page). Pages tanning, foxing. Weight (before packaging): 210g. Seller Inventory # 3356
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The Tin Scratchers
Published by
Angus & Robertson Sydney 1959, 1959
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 260pp., frontis., b/w plates, ep maps, Nice copy with light tape-marks to end papers & nice unclipped dust jacket with minimal chips. Seller Inventory # 143878
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The Tin Scratchers
Published by
Angus and Robertson, 1959
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Castle Hill Books, Llandrindod Wells, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, xii + 260pp illustrated with plates, maps on endpapers, bound in tan cloth no d/w. Scarce book about tin mining in Queensland; Large octavo. Seller Inventory # 63823
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