Riding the Elephant.
by Keesing, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0041500873
- ISBN 13
- 9780041500875
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition, (in very good dustjacket), black & white drawings & photos, illustrated endpapers, rear cover corner slightly bumped, minor edgewear jacket (rear cover little rubbed), pages lightly toned, faint foxing top edge, base spine & bottom corners rubbed, non-author written name front pastedown. 233 pp. This memoir by Nancy Keesing, the Australian author and poet, is her latest contribution to Australian literature, or in her words 'the kind of autobiography I write when I'm not writing an autobiography'. The photos include her parents. As a writer, critic - and through her lifelong friendships with writers, journalists and people in the book world - she tells a story with wit and compassion which gives a rare look at Australian cultural life. First edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41297
- Title
- Riding the Elephant.
- Author
- Keesing, Nancy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0041500873
- ISBN 13
- 9780041500875
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, australian authors, poets
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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