Meg Tasker (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 259 pages, illustrated, lightly chipped at top edge back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 259 pages. Illustrated. Plastic wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 259 pages, illustrated. Plastic wrapper.

8vo, 259pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition; 259 pages, b/w photos.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xii, 259pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Near new. Biography of 19th century Australian journalist, author and poet Francis Adams. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A biography of passion, achievement and tragedy i n late 19th century Australia. 260pp, index, notes. Excellent copy Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Book very good condition. Dust Jacket in fair condition has coffee stain, and scratchings as well as various stains. Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862-1893), poet, novelist, social analyst and journalist made a significant place for himself in Australian literary and cultural history. Much of his best work was concerned with Australian social and political developments in the years leading up to Federation, and his book The Australians (1893) is a much-quoted classic of Australian social commentary. In Struggle and Storm, Meg Tasker explores with texture and nuance both the pleasures of biography and the interesting problem of how to write a literary life a hundred years later. This engaging work is the first full-length biographical study of Francis Adams.

viii+260pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, a little rubbed. Decorative endpapers, black and white illustrations. A near fine copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Some edgewear near spine. The book has been dropped, resulting in denting of the tail book corners. Dust jacket is in good condition with marking, now in protective cover. Interior and binding are still very good. Biography of Francis Adams. Adams (1862-1893) was a poet, novelist, social commentator and journalist. He influenced a generation of Australian socialists and played a role in the development of the labour movement in Australia.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 259pp., b/w pls. & ills., notes, bibliog., index, Ownership inscription o/w nice copy.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket New book octavo 259pp., b/w pls. & ills., notes, bibliog., index,

Octavo hardcover; olive boards with gilt spine titling and plan endpapers; 259pp., b&w plates. Minor wear only; illustrated card dustwrapper well-rubbed with mild edgewear; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Adams (1862-1893) was a brilliant young English writer who played a significant role in Australia's literary, social and cultural history in the years leading to Federation. Poet, novelist, social analyst and journalist, he made a significant place for himself in Australian literary and cultural history. Born in England, he was a self-consciously modern writer of the fin de siecle (the theme of suicide figured frequently in his writings, and in death he embodied the romantic myth of the consumptive artist). Adams arrived in Australia in 1884, full of democratic and literary aspirations, and set out to explore the cultural landscape of his adopted country. A charismatic figure, he was loved by many for his personal beauty and eloquence and for the insouciant charm which smoothed over the sharp edges of his political radicalism and intellectual arrogance. But his impact on Australian cultural history was larger than the merely personal. He influenced a whole generation of idealistic young socialists in Australia, and had a leading role in the development of the Australian labour movement. Much of his best work was concerned with Australian social and political developments in the years leading up to Federation, and his book The Australians (1893) is a much-quoted classic of Australian social commentary. He was an early and influential spokesman for the Australian nationalism of the 1890s, articulating ideas of democracy and independence from England.

hardcover. Condition: Good condition.