A Short History of Manning Clark Tapa dura - 1999

Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, New South Wales, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. acknowledgements, list of illustrations, introduction by author, a note on sources and index. Red coloured endpapers. Between pages 126 and 127 there are 12 pages of black-and-white photography. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Black-and-white photographic dustwrapper with red, white and gold coloured titles to the front panel and red and gold coloured titles to the back strip. The biography of one of the most controversial of Australian modern historians – Charles Manning Hope Clark. Softening of the lowers back strip edge with rubbing of the book corners and top back strip corners. Browning and foxing to the text block edges with lighter browning and foxing of the pages. If inscription to the top edge of the free front endpaper. A little creasing of the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels. Faint… Leer más

Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1999 [1st edition, 1st printing]; 140 x 210 mm; xii, 260 pp, 12 pages of plates. Hard Cover/Dustwrapper, age-toned paper otherwise Fine/Fine. From the cover: "A decade after his passing, Charles Manning Hope Clark continues to disturb his fellow Australians. Clark was followed by controversy for much of his life. As a young schoolmaster in England he was denounced as an Antichrist and suspected of Nazi sympathies. On returning to Australia, during the Cold War he was vilified as a communist. As he succeeded in attracting ever-wider audiences - as a teacher, writer and public speaker - and Australians who otherwise might have had little interest in their country's past responded with enthusiasm, he provoked scorn and rage ... Here is the story of Manning Clark's intriguing life."