Home Before Dark - The Story of Les Darcy, a Great Australian Hero by PARK, Ruth and CHAMPION, Rafe - 1995

Victoria: Viking, 1995. Publishers original black boards with white lettering to spine. Minor shelf wear to top and base of spine and corners. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. Blue endpapers, previous owners inscription on front endpaper. 366pp including index plus 20pp b/w photographs. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. This is the story of a battler, a lovable and modest young man from a disrupted home. He conceived the ambition to become a world champion and set his family up for life. Blessed with peerless physique and stamina, cursed by the shadow of the Great War, he fell foul of the authorities during a bitterly divisive conscription debate of 1916. The wrath of powerful men followed him in the United States. There, with his dream within reach, he met an opponent he could not master.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.