Leonie knapman (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Personalised gift inscription by author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 176pp, 16pp of colour photos (Joadja Creek today [1988]), illustrated throughout with b/w photos, two sketch maps, three appendices, index. Black cloth in jacket. Light edgewear to jacket, with compliments slip of an engineering company taped in at front, light foxing to top edge. The Australian Kerosene Oil and Mineral Company prospered for 30 years, until its liquidation in 1911 when its closure left Joadja Creek a ghost town. The book, with its hundreds of photographs, conjures up the valley when it was prosperous: the miners, their families, the village. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Size 280mmX220mm. Joadja Creek, with its hundreds of photographs, conjures up the valley as it was one hundred years ago : the miners, their families, the village. A colour section shows the valley as it is today : deserted cottages, rusting machinery, abandoned school house. Appendixes explain the refining methods used, the geology and the origin of shale oil, and list all the known residents of the town. …

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, quarto, 176pp. Light wear to dust wrapper/board edge. A very good copy. Profiles of people and their way of life during the early days of Australia's shale oil industry at Joadja Creek in the Southern highlands of New South Wales.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 176 pages. with folding pamphlet on Joadja-nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. An illustrated history of the bright hopes and dismal failure that sparked and doused a nation's pioneering effort to produce its own petrol. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…