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BROWN Carter (Alan Yates)  Ready When You Are, C.B.! The autobiography of Alan Yates alias Carter Brown.
VG VG light grease mark to top edge of DW front panel, small pen X to fep, minor chip to spine tail. $25 C/B MacMillan 1983 first edition hardcover, 109pp+ colour plates. Autobiography of one of Australia's most prolific writers and a legend in the 'hardboiled' genre. King of the pulps. Includes full page colour plates of some of the paperback cover art. ISBN 0333356675 [ITEM# 12 ausbiog]

DUFFIELD Kenneth  Savages and Kings G+ sunned spine, lightly soiled, name blacked out to paste down. $10 C/C MacDonald 1945 first edition cloth 8vo, 192pp + plates. Biographical memoir by the author of his times in Australia, the Savage Club, the Australian Theatre, London during the Blitz etc. [Item# 212 ausbio]

FENTON Clyde  Flying Doctor G worn and rubbed cloth, name to title page. $20 C/B Georgian House 1948 reprint cloth, 261pp + plates, map endpapers. Flying doctor in the Northern Territory and Indonesian archipelago. [AUS 42]

PORTER Una B. (editor)  Growing Together, Letters between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune 1881 to 1884 VG VG short tear head of lower joint of DW taped to reverse. $75 heavy book enquire for shipping quote. Privately Published 1981 first LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies this is number 299. Red cloth folio, xvi 516pp + 3 tipped in colour plates and a folding family tree chart, quality laid paper. Letters pertain to the Cato, Bethune and Moran families of Melbourne, Australia and Invercargill, New Zealand. ISBN 090917427x 0909174288 [AUS 17]

WERE Jonathan Binns   A Voyage from Plymouth to Melbourne in 1839 The Shipboard and Early Melbourne Diary
VG $15 C/B J B Were 1990 softcover,xviii 309pp. Early Australian colonial diary. Facsimile of original faced by type. Illustrated. ISBN 0646002287 [AUS 45]

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