Ann Standish (5 results)

soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. Illustrated in colour and black and white. 21 cm. VIII, 336 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear and edge wear to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. xxi+343pp., Pictorial colour illustrated dustjacket- covered in removable protective clear plastic, light green cloth boards with white text to spine, b/w illust. endpapers, full page col. maps, b/w plts. & text ills., index. These Memoirs of a Young Bastard, as Burstall dubbed himself and them, are among the most evocative Australian diaries of modern times. Burstall can write, He has an eye for the telling detail, an unerring ear for cant and pomposity and, most endearingly, an ability to mock himself- always from the perspective of a bloke of his generation. Size: Small Quarto. Book. …

Square quarto, xxiv+344pp, illustrated, original boards in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are excellent. Throughout the 19th century, British women as diverse as Louisa Meredith, Marianne North and Beatrice Webb travelled to the Australian colonies and wrote about the emerging white civilization they found there. Some were visitors, others settlers, but all were fascinated by the possibilities of the new world. Here, Australia is seen through the eyes of such women writers. It is a land of strange and un-English flora and fauna and of wonderously growing cities - a place where European cultural institutions were begining to flourish and where Indigenouse culture was becoming invisible. (back cover).…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New small quarto 343pp., b/w plates, reading list, index, Tim Burstall is best known as the director of Stork, Alvin Purlple & many other 'ocker' comedies that shook up the Australian film industry. This is a diary of his early life in Eltham.