Riding the Elephant Tapa dura - 1988

Hardback. Very Good.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988. viii+233pp. Black cloth boards. Gilt lettering spine. Very light rubbing ends of spine. Library 'Cancelled' stamps front and rear, otherwise unmarked. Front endpaper removed. Dustwrapper not clipped. Wrapper in plastic sleeve. Line illustrations within text + 16 full page black & white plates. Australian author Nancy Keesing's autobiography. ISBN 0041500873.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/Very Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988 VG in unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to bottom edge of boards, name and date to fep, slightly faded spine of jacket, autobiography by this Australian writer, 233pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988. vii, 233pp, index, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or boards in jacket. Light foxing to page edges. Autobiographical anecdotes from Australian author Nancy Keesing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 236 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 0041500873. ISBN/EAN: 9780041500875. Dewey Code: A828/.303. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB13900. . 9780041500875

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 by Nancy Keesing, the Australian author and poet, is her latest contribution to Australian literature, or in her words 'the kind of autobiography I write when I'm not writing an autobiography'. The photos include her parents. As a writer, critic - and through her lifelong friendships with writers, journalists and people in the book world - she tells a story with wit and compassion which gives a rare look at Australian cultural life. First edition.

Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, black and white illustrations, blue illustrated endpapers. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Pages clean and tight, photographs and delightful illustrations. Light wear to base of boards. Overall a very nice copy. A lovely copy of this memoir that includes much on the Australian literary scene of the Twentieth Century.