Viking Kestrel, 1987, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First, Illustrated By: Christopher Meadows -- Cover Art
Bright yellow coloured endpapers. Green coloured boards with white coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Christopher Meadows, with white and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. "17-year-old Col leads a double life. In public he plays football and drinks with the town gang, but in private he escapes to his secret place in the forest. When the greenies come to Col's tiny timber town, he feels. If the logging stops, the local workers will lose their jobs and the town will die. It is the logging continues, the brown scars will soon destroyed Col's green land. Torn between these two forces, Col is painfully initiated into the adult world. A world of compromise and contradiction where right and wrong are inextricably linked." -- front fold over blurb. Rubbing to the book corners, lower book edges and to the backstrip edges. Browning to the text block edges and internal text. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper edges. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 176 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Christopher Meadows -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; fiction -- adolescent; Environment & Ecology. ISBN: 0670820296. ISBN/EAN: 9780670820290. Inventory No: 0110202.
Bright yellow coloured endpapers. Green coloured boards with white coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Christopher Meadows, with white and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. "17-year-old Col leads a double life. In public he plays football and drinks with the town gang, but in private he escapes to his secret place in the forest. When the greenies come to Col's tiny timber town, he feels. If the logging stops, the local workers will lose their jobs and the town will die. It is the logging continues, the brown scars will soon destroyed Col's green land. Torn between these two forces, Col is painfully initiated into the adult world. A world of compromise and contradiction where right and wrong are inextricably linked." -- front fold over blurb. Rubbing to the book corners, lower book edges and to the backstrip edges. Browning to the text block edges and internal text. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper edges. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 176 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Christopher Meadows -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; fiction -- adolescent; Environment & Ecology. ISBN: 0670820296. ISBN/EAN: 9780670820290. Inventory No: 0110202.