The Road from Coorain (An Australian Memoir).
by Conway, Jill Ker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0855613211
- ISBN 13
- 9780855613211
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1990. 1st Australian, reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in very good dustjacket), light foxing spots endpapers & first few pages, minor edgewear. 243 pp. A memoir by Jill Ker Conway about her outback Australian childhood. She is now a senior academic living in the United States. She describes her long and painful road to independence, her growing cultural and political awareness at university, and the friendships and travel that provided her with a successful place in the world. First Australian edition reprint: WHA on spine is white). (1 of 2 available copies.).
Synopsis
Jill Ker Conway is a noted historian, specializing in the experience of women in America, and was the first woman president of Smith College.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4168A
- Title
- The Road from Coorain (An Australian Memoir).
- Author
- Conway, Jill Ker
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Australian, reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0855613211
- ISBN 13
- 9780855613211
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Australia
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, rural
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.