Goodbye, Melbourne Town

Graham McInnes
ISBN: 024101509X Category:

$10.00

Sold Out

In 1920s Melbourne, Graham McInnes was a boy, directing traffic during the Great Police Strike, attempting to derail electric trains, fighting bush fires, scrambling over extinct volcanoes, exploring abandoned tunnels, breaking into weekend shacks, sailing down Port Phillip Bay, reading serialised pioneer science fiction in the local press, weltering in calf love for a lisle-legged schoolgirl goddess, listening to Jack Smith – The Whispering Baritone on a hand-cranked portable gramophone, or pestering the life out of step-cousins reckoned up by dozens, to say nothing of step-aunts and step-uncles. xii, 211 p. map. 23 cm. #0221 Autobiography First Edition.

Additional Information

AuthorGraham McInnes
PublisherHamish Hamilton, London
Year Published1968
Book Condition

Very Good

Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

Elizabeth’s Bookshops have been one of Australia’s premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth’s family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse.

All items can be viewed at Elizabeth’s Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle WA.
Click & Collect (no postage cost!) is available at all branches.