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BEAUTIFUL OPALS 

OF THE DESERT

- by Len Cram -

ISBN: 1862730660

Publisher:  Robert Brown & Associates, Buranda, Qld, Australia

Published:   1992

Binding:   Soft cardcover  30  pages  Maps and Illustrations by Matthew Tesch  AND FOUR POST CARDS STILL ATTACHED TO BACK COVER!!   *****  SIGNED & dated BY THE AUTHOR ALSO

Condition: carefully treasured and once read condition! retired display copy!

Edition:  FIRST  EDITION!   EXCEEDINGLY  SCARCE TITLE with THIS  cover  art !!!

NOTE:   All of my listings used  to contain many HUGE close-up photos embedded within my listing - however in June 2017 action taken by Photobucket, the image hosting website, has removed them all -  THIS  listing has had my photos deleted. I am happy to email any photos you request via email.

AUTHOR'S  SIGNATURE  BELOW  ......


AUHTOR'S SIGNATURE AND DATE  ABOVE  &  BELOW ....


UNread - it was the display copy. It is Tight -  neat, no inscriptions or marks. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!!  A nicely  preserved copy - superb! 

No discernible shelf wear, the interior is tight and spotlessly clean with  30 informative  & illustrated pages. 

LARGER FORMAT CARD cover measuring 11 x8½ cm ~ it’s filled with fantastic Aussie stories and top quality colour illustrations throughout. 

In original softcover binding, glossy pictorial softcover.  SCARCE ... and very, very Collectable  with FOUR POSTCARDS still attached to the back cover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ALSO  and dated  1992!!


SYNOPSIS  - see photo ABOVE !!

The book contains some superb colour photographs of opals, and offers some advice to collectors. Published in Buranda, Qld by Robert Brown & Associates, in 1992. Illustrated  in full colour throughout, double-page spread: Evening Shadows over Painted Desert, Coober, & map at inside rear cover with the FOUR POST CARDS ATTACHED. A picture of a beautiful opal on the first page where the author has signed and dated this copy in 1992.  Four postcards attached to the rear cover. Soft covers lightly worn upper edge and upper front corner. Picture of a heavy digging machinery on front cover.


Published by Robert Brown, Buranda, Qld, Australia, in 1992. Soft Card cover. First edition. Larger Softcover it measures  29 x 21 cm – with  30 pages, illustrated throughout in full colour. Illustrated stapled light card wrapper. FOUR detachable postcards attached to back cover now. Colour photographs & four postcards to rfep. There's a lot of opal mining information in this now extremely rare A4-size book. It includes many high quality photographic examples of finished work and covers the centres of Coober Pedy and White Cliffs.

It's illustrated throughout in full colour. Illustrated light card stapled wrapper with a map at the inside rear cover. Four detachable postcards still attached to the rear cover. The book covers Coober Pedy Desert Opal; Opalisation; Geology; Solids, doublets, triplets; Andamooka, Mintabie and White Cliffs. SIGNED by Len Cram

SUPER DOOPER Scarce !!! 

Len Cram is a renowned photographer of opal, and his books are full of large beautiful color photographs of opals and entertaining stories from the opal fields.

Very very informative and comprehensive Guide -  very SCARCE  new  like this!

Marvellous Reading!

WHY do ebayers buy from US?


Because you KNOW what you're getting. My close up photos are of the actual item!!


BACK  COVER  OF  THIS  1993  EDITION  BELOW ....

My PHOTOS/ slideshow is of the ACTUAL copy I'm selling  AND FORMS PART OF MY DESCRIPTION

BACK COVER BELOW ...........

* Postage $8.90 within Australia

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