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GEORGE TURNER: A Life
by Buckrich, Judith Raphael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0522848400
- ISBN 13
- 9780522848403
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1999. ix, + 214pp., unpaginated [2 x 8] candidly-illustrated b/white halftone plate sections. Book clean and square. Spine tight, bright silver title there-on. Green remainder stripe on head of textblock, otherwise leaves clean. Portrait-illustrated dustjacket nominally edgeworn. The story of Australia's stand-out Science Fiction writer, George Turner [1916-1997], a most complex character, haunted by family and personal issues, but a stunningly successful writer, winning the Miles Franklin Award [1962], the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction. Contents include: Prelims., 10 chapters, Epilogue, Notes, Biblio., Index of Names and Titles. George Turner died in Ballarat, Victoria, on 8 June, 1997, just as Judith Buckrich's manuscript was completed. Book weight approx. 500g. . First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good+/Very Good +. 8vo - (approx. 22.5cm x 14.5cm).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014896
- Title
- GEORGE TURNER: A Life
- Author
- Buckrich, Judith Raphael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0522848400
- ISBN 13
- 9780522848403
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - (approx. 22.5cm x 14.5cm)
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, NOVELISTS, AUSTRALIA, George Turner, 1916-1997, Science Fiction Writers, LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian Biography;
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Korumburra, Victoria
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