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Hal Porter (Portable Australian Authors) Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Bibliography by Mary Lord
by PORTER, Hal, Mary LORD, (ed.)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702214655
- ISBN 13
- 9780702214653
- Seller
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover : pp. xxxi, 408 : original black boards, gilt lettering to the spine.
Slightly rubbed jacket. Includes a new revised version of Porter's first novel A Handful of Pennies, eleven short stories, poems, drawings, an interview by the Editor with the author, all the versions of Porter's screenplay outline "The Jetty" which formed one of the segments of the Tim Burstall film "Libido". Loosely inserted are two newspaper clippings including an obituary of Porter by Max Harris.
Slightly rubbed jacket. Includes a new revised version of Porter's first novel A Handful of Pennies, eleven short stories, poems, drawings, an interview by the Editor with the author, all the versions of Porter's screenplay outline "The Jetty" which formed one of the segments of the Tim Burstall film "Libido". Loosely inserted are two newspaper clippings including an obituary of Porter by Max Harris.
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- Bookseller
- Archives Fine Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8821
- Title
- Hal Porter (Portable Australian Authors) Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Bibliography by Mary Lord
- Author
- PORTER, Hal, Mary LORD, (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0702214655
- ISBN 13
- 9780702214653
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- St Lucia
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- TIM BURSTALL, VERSE, POETRY, SHORT STORIES, LITERATURE, AUSTRALIAN WRITERS, AUSTRALIA NOISBN
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