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A CERTAIN STYLE, Beatrice Davis - A Literary Life
by Jacqueline Kent
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- AS NEW book in AS NEW unclipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Viking Penguin, Melbourne - first edition 2001 hardcover, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4", with dust jacket AS NEW book in AS NEW unclipped dust jacket Light-brown cloth-bound boards with white type to spine, illustrated endpapers, 27 b&w photographs, Writers and Their Works, Bibliography, Index. As general editor at Australia's largest publisher from the late 1930s to the early 70s, Beatrice Davis nurtured the talents of a host of well-known writers, including Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Ruth Park, Hal Porter and Patricia Wrightson. This is an erudite and witty biography set in an era of great change.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30952
- Title
- A CERTAIN STYLE, Beatrice Davis - A Literary Life
- Author
- Jacqueline Kent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin, Melbourne - first edition
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 344 pages
- Keywords
- Authors and Writers Biography: A-D Beatrice Davis Australian Publishing Angus Robertson Miles Franklin
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About the Seller
Pegasus Book Orphanage
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McCrae, Victoria
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On-line bookstore operating for 20+ years.
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