Francy Grys (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Very Good in worn dust jacket. Appears unread with NO markings. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. [10], 11-238. Illustrated with black-and-white photography throughout. Endpaper maps. Bound in cream cloth with brown lettering stamped on spine. A bright copy in the illustrated dust jacket that shows fading to spine, edge-wear, notably with chips at head and tail of spine, and old, small tape repairs on verso. A fourth-generation Australian and nurse, de Grys conveys her quotidian and professional experiences in a remote La Grange, on the Indian Ocean in Western Australia. The dust jacket illustration by Douglas Maxted showing happy natives is stylistically charming, albeit culturally insensitive. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Douglas Maxted (dust jacket design) (illustrator).…

1st Edition. 238pp., with 12 pages of b/w photos. Day to day life at an Aboriginal depot Nor-west of Western Australia. Hardcover in dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards; light wear to the dust jacket. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Very good in torn d.j. B/w photos and illus. The author's autobiographical tale of day-to-day life as a nurse, teacher, and mother in an isolated aboriginal depot in the far northwest of Western Australia. An honest window into the personal realities of life on the border between indigenous and western cultures. *** 238pp. *** 1st ed. > DJ Fair | > Language: English | > Size: 8vo | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |.…

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 238pp. Several pages of b&w plates. Original light brown cloth, dustwrapper. Minor tanning of the contents, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (slight sunning of the spine panel, minor chafing of the edges). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tight Firm Clean Read Copy - First Edition - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Illustrated. Book On Nursing In Broome District North Western Australia During 1950'S. Slight Tanning Of Pages. Yellow Cloth Hard Cover With Brown Titles On Spine Slight Edge Wear. Unclipped Jacket With Age Discolouring,Edge Wear And Missing Nicks.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 237ppbw ills, endpaper maps. Or creamcloth in jacket. A lovely fresh copy with light even toning to page edges. The day-to-day life of the author on an isolated Aboriginal depot in the far north-west of Western Australia- nursing, teaching and raising a family of her own. Size: 8vo.…

HARDCOVER. 1961. First edition. A very good copy only marked by lightly tanned pages and a previous owners bookplate. The d/w is also very good and now in a protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to CLEAN boards. Internally CLEAN with NO INSCRIPTIONS. NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves. The dustwrapper is present with nicking to spine corners, a few tiny chips and normal wear to wrapper extremities. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Nursing in remote Aboriginal Australia.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. binding tight, no markings, shelf wear, S4 5. Photo Reproductions (illustrator).