Coote errol (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1981 ('third and edited edition')/ 1934. Octavo, 142 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map. Colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; laminate lifting at the top corner; ink ownership details; a very good copy. 'Account of author's exploits as a member of Harold Lasseter's gold prospecting expedition 1930-31 [with] reference to Aranda, Luritja, Eumos and Wongapitcha (Pitjantjatjara) people in text and photograph captions' (Trove). Foreword by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.…

Boards. 3rd edition. 3rd ed. [May 1934], octavo, cloth boards, b&w plates (photographic), folding map, pp 287. Parliamentary Library of Western Australia bookplate front endpaper, Parliamentary Library of W.A. embossed upper board. The spine has been rebacked. Marks to boards, corners bumped and rubbed. Good condition. Errol Coote was a journalist and an early aviator: he was the pilot on the search for Lasseter and the famed (and fictitious) Lasseter's Reef. There was intense public interest in Lasseter, and Coote's book went through three editions in less than six weeks [this edition printed May 1934]. Includes many photographs of Central Australia.…