Aunts Up the Cross [Kings Cross].
by Dalton, Robin
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0855617306
- ISBN 13
- 9780855617301
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2933
- Title
- Aunts Up the Cross [Kings Cross].
- Author
- Dalton, Robin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0855617306
- ISBN 13
- 9780855617301
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Australia
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, australian history, families, women, aunts, new south wales (nsw), sydney, kings cross
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...