[SYDNEY] Kings Cross, 1936-1946.

A$75 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Cover title: Memories, Kings Cross, 1936-1946 . Potts Point [N.S.W.] : Kings Cross Community Aid and Information Service, 1981. Large quarto (305 x 210 mm), original stiff wrappers (light edge wear) with gold lettering; pp. 161, plus [17] pp of plates (including two paintings by Rosaleen Norton and a photograph of the Witch of Kings Cross working on another of her paintings) and many smaller text illustrations; index; light foxing to fore-edge, previous owner s name to title-page, but a very good copy. A fascinating, well-illustrated social history of the Cross in the 1930s and 40s: anecdotes of the bohemian characters, restaurants and clubs, and descriptions of now-vanished buildings and architecture.

• Binding: Hardcover

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