A City in the Mind: Sydney - Imagined by Its Writers.
by Holt, Patricia (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0868611271
- ISBN 13
- 9780868611273
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983. 1st ed.. Hardback oblong small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, single colour illustrations, some edgewear jacket (small closed tear, light foxing reverse side & white background covers), spine ends little rubbed. 131 pp. In this fascinating look at Sydney, 28 writers reveal how they have written about Sydney in their fiction and autobiographies. Each extract is accompanied by a contemporary illustration. A brief biography of each writer places their fiction in its social and temporal context, and is accompanied by a portrait which shows the writer at the time of writing. Edited by Patricia Holt.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41108
- Title
- A City in the Mind: Sydney - Imagined by Its Writers.
- Author
- Holt, Patricia (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0868611271
- ISBN 13
- 9780868611273
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- literature, novels, writers, novelists, australian locations, new south wales (nsw), sydney
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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