The Bond Store Tales. by Gibson, Ross; Emmett, Peter (foreword) - 1996

Sydney, Glebe: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales / Museum of Sydney, 1996. 1st ed.. Paperback small thick trade, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), parilux dull white covers, gilclear medium endpapers, single-colour photos, light foxing edges, novatech gloss jacket (small closed tear rear), corners little rubbed). 241 pp. A literary version of The Bond Store gallery at the Museum of Sydney. It is a book of stories and historical fragments blended together so that the flames of fiction come out from a tinder of records, from the everyday lives of colonial Sydney, 1788 to 1850. The seafaring tales of the South Pacific in this book are true stories in as much as they are inspired by material evidence. They are true to the spirit of people living everyday lives. At the end of each story there are research notes about the people in the story. (Foreword by senior curator, Museum of Sydney.).