Aunts Up the Cross Tapa dura - 1997

Paperback. Very Good.

HardCover . 🔴 Condition - Good🔴Australian buyers can combine up to 5Kg of Books for the same postage charge.🟢 This Book weighs 385 Grams.

William Heinemann Australia. Very Good. 21.8 x 14.4 x 1.8 centimetres (0. Hardcover. 1997. 172 pages. <br>My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed b y a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was travelling very slo wly in the right direction and could hardly have been missed by a nyone except Aunt Juliet, who must have been travelling fairly fa st in the wrong direction. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old ... .

William Heinemann Australia. Very Good. 21.8 x 14.4 x 1.8 centimetres (0. Hardcover. 1997. 172 pages. Name on ffep<br>Rollicking memoir - tells of Robin Dal ton's childhood in Sydney's Kings Cross from 1920s to mid 1940s. .

William Heinemann, Australia, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Size: 9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0855617306. ISBN/EAN: 9780855617301. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 30582. . 9780855617301

Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 14x23cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 172pages. . reprint. Hardback.

Heinemann, Australia, 1980. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was travelling very slowly in the right direction and could hardly have been missed by anyone except Aunt Juliet, who must have been travelling fairly fast in the wrong direction.Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney’s bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revolving door of unconventional houseguests, Dalton recalls a time when children had real adventures in a world not easy but perhaps less complicated than today’s.With a gentle warmth and wicked wit, Robin Dalton brings to life all the colour, glamour and charm of Australian society between the wars. Steeped in nostalgia, Aunts Up the Cross is a delightfully funny memoir of family, childhood and an Australia of yesteryear.Note: The sequel ""Incidental Memoir, An"" is also… Leer más

William Heinemann Australia, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Diana Dryhurst. 172 pages. In original hardcover binding with photographic illustrated dust jacket. The book shows no sign of damage. Foreword by Clive James. Originally published under her maiden name, this book was only 114 pages, even with the introduction and family tree which add 20 pages, there is no explanation for the extra 30 or so pages, other than the photographs. Photographic illustrated dust jacket, photographic illustrated end pages, the text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, mostly full page. This is a story of growing up in Kings Cross, Sydney, in the early part of the 20th century with an eccentric family. "My great - aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was 85. The bus was travelling very slowly in the right direction and could hardly have been missed by anyone except Aunt Juliet, who must have been travelling fairly fast in the wrong… Leer más

Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1997. Reprint ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos (including frontispiece), pictorial endpapers, top edge foxed, top edge reverse side jacket minimally foxed, pages lightly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 172 pp. (Aunts Up the Cross, by Robin Dalton, William Heinemann, 1997.) Autobiography by Robin Dalton of being brought up as a child by eccentric aunts and uncles, and various hangers-on, in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross district during the 1920s and 1930s. A fascinating social document about life in Sydney during that era. The author is an Australian-born literary agent and film producer.