Hear Train Blow Classic by Adam Smith Patsy (10 results)
- Softcover
Seller: Leura Books, Bowral, NSW, AustraliaLeura Books
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents a station-mistress and a fettler. The catalogue of towns they lived in reverberates with the once-familiar clatter of metal and steam, but it was the tiny one-pub town of Waaia, in…the centre of Victoria's wheat-rich Goulburn Valley, that kept drawing them back. These were days of yabbying and rabbiting, of bush girls riding bareback on wilful ponies, and of the tin-lizzies that transformed the Mallee forever. It was a time for learning, for devouring books and for satisfying a powerful thirst for knowledge. And then it was a time for war. Hear the Train Blow tells of Patsy Adam-Smith's classic upbringing during the Great Depression. It is a celebration of the ordinary people of Australia, and of a life that no longer exists. 180 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0170059952. ISBN/EAN: 9780170059954. Inventory No: 269265.
- Hardcover
Seller: M. C. Wilson, Perth, WA, AustraliaM. C. Wilson
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Expanded Illustrated edition. Expanded Illustrated edition 1981 near fine hardback in a very good dust wrapper, small closed tear, spine sunned, corners and edges rubbed. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 180 pages. Illustrations.
- Softcover
Seller: Coast Market Books, Mermaid Beach, QLD, AustraliaCoast Market Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Markings to endpapers, leaf edges.
- Hardcover
Seller: Haymes Bookdealers, Kingscliff, NSW, AustraliaHaymes Bookdealers
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Illustrated Edition. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Jacket lightly sunned, verso slightly foxed; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 180 pages.
- Hardcover
Seller: Archive, Sth Hobart, TAS, AustraliaArchive
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Very Good In A Good Jacket With Sun Fading On The Front And A Large Chip And Rubbing On The Top Edge, Dented On The Rear Pp 180 Illustrations.
Published by Nelson, 1981
- Hardcover
Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, AustraliaBook Grocer
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Add to basketHardback. Patsy Adam-Smith, Nelson. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Mylar layer on jacketA beloved classic of Australian memoir literature, Hear the Train Blow chronicles the remarkable childhood and adolescence of Patsy Adam-Smith, who grew up in th…e remote bush and railway camps of Victoria during the 1930s and 1940s. With warmth, humor, and an unflinching eye for detail, the narrative paints a vivid portrait of a vanishing Australia - one defined by itinerant railway workers, isolated communities, and the rhythms of a hard but richly textured rural life. Adam-Smith recounts her unconventional upbringing with a storyteller's gift, capturing the resilience and camaraderie of working-class Australians who carved out lives far from the comforts of the city. The prose carries a deeply nostalgic yet unsentimental tone, grounding each memory in the sights, sounds, and characters of a world that has largely disappeared. Widely regarded as one of the finest Australian autobiographies of the twentieth century, it stands as both a personal coming-of-age story and an invaluable social history of bush life. Hardback.
Published by Nelson, Melbourne, 1987., 1987
- Softcover
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, AustraliaCamberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd
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Add to basket180 pp, small quarto, plates & photographic illustrations, edges lightly foxed, else fine copy in pictorial, limp wrappers.
- Softcover
Seller: Studibuch, Stuttgart, GermanyStudibuch
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paperback. Condition: Gut. 216 Seiten; 9780140165388.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.
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- Signed
Seller: Manyhills Books, Traralgon, VIC, AustraliaManyhills Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Inscribed by Author. Hardcover. 222 pages. Inscribed by Author. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Thomas Nelson, Australia, 1981. Reprint. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boar…ds have superficial wear. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. . Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for light foxing to top edge of pages. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0170059952. ISBN/EAN: 9780170059954. Inventory No: 25010036.
Published by Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1981., 1981
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, AustraliaCamberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd
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Add to basket180 pp, small quarto, tinted end-papers, b&w photographic illustrations throughout, fine copy in like, pictorial d/j. Expanded, illustrated edition. - Patsy's own copy marked up with (minor) changes for the next edition.
