AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY from Bookhome Sydney

Perth, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1990. Paperback trade, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear, old price sticker, award sticker front cover. 191 pp. Autobiography of Emma Ciccotosto, a poor Italian migrant who migrated to Western Australia at age 13 in 1939. She maried and had four children, and lived in Waroona and Fremantle.… Read more about this item

Hobart: Platypus Publications, 1966. Facsimile ed.. Hardback small, clear plastic dustjacket, very good condition, cream boards (mid-grey spine), vignette & initials front cover, decorative endpapers, minimal foxing edges, pages lightly toned, minor pencil annotation. 36 pp. This facsimile edition of the life of Tasmanian bushranger Michael Howe is published to mark the 150th anniversary of initial publication in the… Read more about this item

Sydney: Alternative Publishing Co-operative (APCOL), 1982. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear, old price marks, owner's written name & date, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 272 pp. Memoirs of an Australian icon, Leslie Rees, spanning 50 years of journalism, play editing and producing for the ABC, and… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Penguin Group (Australia), 2007. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, colour & few black & white photos, small area inside rear cover little rubbed, minor edgewear. 125 pp. Autobiography of Cathy Freeman, the champion Australian Aboriginal athlete. For the first time, she shares with young adult readers the story of how she became a… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2021. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour & few black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, endpaper maps, minor edgewear jacket. 342 pp. Autobiography of Dick Smith, the flamboyant Australian businessman, philanthropist and explorer. He also describes his successful business philosophy. In this fascinating autobiography Dick shares his… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970. 1st ed.. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white photos, some edgewear & scuffs & small tears jacket (reverse side jacket lightly foxed & marked, front flap price-clipped, small piece bottom edge rear flap little thinned), pages lightly toned. 418 pp. This biography by Kylie Tennant traces the early… Read more about this item

Victor Harbour, SA: Rallye Publications, 1989. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good jacket), black & white text-photos, spine jacket little faded, glossy paper, minor edgewear. 246 pp. The humorous and entertaining autobiography of John Barraclough, a flamboyant dealer in classic cars and a car racing driver, both before and after World War 2, based largely in… Read more about this item

Armidale, NSW / Sydney: Kardoorair Press / Royal Botanic Gardens, 2001. 1st ed.. Paperback large wide octavo, good condition, black & white text-photos, colour frontispiece, spine little creased, top corner rear cover & last few pages creased, pages lightly toned, edges lightly foxed, minor edgewear, autograph (author's written & date), owner’s written name front cover biro (rubbed out, scuff).… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Arcadia / Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Paperback small trade, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear, small sticker top corner flyleaf (covers sticker mark). 220 pp. Pam Menzies relates her first 16 years spent in Port Kembla, south of Sydney. The book is also the story of a steel town and its movers and… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1974. 1st p//b ed.. Paperback small trade, good condition, maps, few black & white photos, minor creasing corner tips few pages,, tiny tear fore-edge of first few pages, minor edgewear. 175 pp. Geoffrey Dutton relates the story of Ernest Giles who in the 1870s tried again and again to find out if rich country or desert… Read more 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… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: National Archives of Australia / Public Record Office Victoria, 2008. Paperback octavo (with full-flaps), very good condition, map, family tree, copies of certificates, black & white text-photos, colour plates, documents, top corner front cover bumped, tiny scuff top spine, minor edgewear. 132 pp. This is the story of Lucy and Percy Pepper, from Gippsland, Victoria, and how… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing (ASP), 2011. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour text-photos, minor edgewear, autograph (author's written name). 315 pp. A John Bull figure, full of bumptious ambition and self-confidence, Lord Sydney had a remarkable political career, largely in opposition. When the British cabinet accepted his recommendation to send convicts to Botany… Read more about this item

Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1990. 1st Austraian, 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… Read more about this item

Brisbane, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press (UQP), 1992. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback large trade, good plus condition, black & white photos centre spread, black & white drawings, bottom corner creased front cover, minor edgewear, stickers inside front cover, old price marks. 320 pp. Inky Stephensen, born in Queensland, was a remarkable and controversial Australian man of letters. Originally… Read more about this item

Victoria: Slattery Media Group, 2010. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour & few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minor edgewear jacket (two tiny holes base spine, little rubbed). 288 pp. Autobiography of the Australian horse trainer. Gai Waterhouse. In this fascinating book, she describes the influence of her remarkable parents, her selfless love of… Read more about this item

Sydney: Talkara Press, 1958. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, blue cloth cover (gilt lettering, spine & edges of covers little faded, spine ends little bumped), endpapers little toned, minor edgewear. 40 pp. Philip Dimmock committed suicide in 1955, aged 22. He developed diabetes five years earlier. He was a promising poet who died too… Read more about this item

Sorrento, VIC: Arden Press, 1994. Paperback large wide octavo, good plus condition, black & white sketches, watercolour plates, family tree, edges lightly foxed, light foxing inside covers, bottom corner tips few pages & rear cover little creased, minor edgewear. 158 pp. Barbara Hamilton-Arnold has edited the letters of George Prideaux (G. P.) Harris, a young lawyer from Devon,… Read more about this item

Broken Hill / Adelaide: Self-Published: Glenys Hocking, 2016. Paperback large wide octavo, very good condition, maps, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 146 pp. The fascinating memoir of the life of Glenys Hocking as a child living on the SA/NSW Border Fence. The Border Fence meandered through to the Northern areas of the State linking to the South Australian/New… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hill of Content, 1967. 1st Australian ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), front flap jacket price-clipped, minor toning front free flyleaf, minor edgewear, bookplate, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve (Brodart). 176 pp. A pioneer biography by A. Grove Day of Australian novelist and storyteller Louis Becke, often described as 'The Rudyard Kipling… Read more about this item