The Three Lives of Gavan Duffy Tapa dura - 1979

Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press Limited, 1979. Hardcover. Good +/Good. Kensington, NSW: New South Wales University Press Limited, 1979. First edition. Good +/good. Unclipped d.j. rubbed and with minor splits top and bottom, interior with ink owner's signature to fep, otherwise crisp and clean, binding tight.

Sydney, Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, 1979. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), brown endpapers, black & white text-illustrations, minute insect damage front free flyleaf, bookplate front pastedown, owner's written name free flyleaf, minor edgewear & edge tears jacket (faint foxing reverse side, little plastic coating top edge front cover lifted). 237 pp. Cyril Pearl has written a a biography of an Irish rebel, Gavan Duffy, who became an Australian patriot. Between 1842, when he established and edited "The Nation", and 1855, he played a leading part in Irish politics. He migrated to Australia after resigning his seat in the British House of Commons. In Melbourne and Sydney a conquering hero's welcome awaited him, and in 1856 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Duffy tried to bring about federation of the Australian colonies, and rose to become premier in 1871. His third 'life' began… Leer más