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CULTURE OF THE BOOK, ESSAYS FROM TWO HEMISPHERES

   

- Melbourne : Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 1999
- 8vo.
- cloth, dust jacket.
- xxx, 474 pages.
- ISBN 095982717X / Order Nr. 104533
- Price: $ 37.50



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First edition. Edited by David Garrioch, Harold Love, Brian McMullin, Ian Morrison and Meredith Sherlock. In all a group of 35 essays written in tribute to Wallace Kirsop, the founding President of the the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zeland. Includes essays from distinguished scholars from all over the world and includes an essay on Kirsop and a bibliography of his writings. Slightly damaged copies--spines and corners are bumped.

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