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A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life.
by Kent, Jacqueline
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0670911313
- ISBN 13
- 9780670911318
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Viking / Penguin Books, 2001. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket, cover edges little rubbed, pages lightly toned. 344 pp. First edition. A biography by Jacqueline Kent about Beatrice Davis, 1909 - 1992, who was Australia's most acclaimed book editor, the 'backroom girl of Australian literature'. As general editor at Angus & Robertson from the late1930s to the early 1970s, she nurtured the talents of many well-known writers. In the course of her outstanding career Beatrice Davis saw Australian publishing change from a genteel pursuit to a market-dominated industry. The book is also the story of that change, illustrated by the decline and fall of Beatrice's beloved Angus & Robertson, for almost a century Australia's premier publishing house. The author portrays a woman whose passion for living was as great as her passion for Australian literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3775
- Title
- A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life.
- Author
- Kent, Jacqueline
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670911313
- ISBN 13
- 9780670911318
- Publisher
- Viking / Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- australian biography, australian history, communication, books, publishing, editors, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- LANGUAGE & BOOKS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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