{"product_id":"my-mate-dick-by-ion-l-idriess","title":"My Mate Dick by Ion L. Idriess","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eMy Mate Dick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eby Ion L. Idriess\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eAngus and Robertson, 1962\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition\u003cbr\u003eBlack and white photographic plates, b\/w photographic frontispiece\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e: Very good\u003cbr\u003eSome edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, pp. 67 and 69 torn and separate but still complete, age toned pages, small tears at spine. (see photographs)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“Cape York Peninsula, still one of the wildest regions in Australia, was wild indeed when young Jack Idriess and his mate Dick roamed through its maze of creeks and ranges looking for gold.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThere were memorable meetings on the way – with Kio and Ku-dor, for instance, native warriors on the run from both white police and tribal enemies; with John Dickie the “Stringybark Fox”, who had crossed the continent alone but for the weirdest of bodyguards; with old Crusoe Butcher, who dressed in goatskins and brewed his own potent grog from ingredients including over-ripe bananas, lizards’ gall-bladders, and sulphur; with Wy-chet-ee the witch-doctor, and\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e- if it could be called a meeting – with the skeleton in the ant-bed whose discovery unearthed a horrifying story of vengeance.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.morgansrarebooks.com\/search?q=Ion+Idriess\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" title=\"Ion Idriess\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eother copies of this title, and more from Ion Idriess\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44898533015622,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/MyMateDick_1.jpg?v=1776227841","url":"https:\/\/www.morgansrarebooks.com\/products\/my-mate-dick-by-ion-l-idriess","provider":"Morgan's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}