Armidale ‘42 Memory and imagination : a survivor’s account (deluxe edition)

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Melbourne : Macmillan, 1999. Quarto, black cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 70, illustrated, including numerous Senberg illustrations tipped-in. The deluxe edition, specially bound in cloth with slipcase, of an unspecified edition (but less than fifteen copies), with an original signed pencil sketch by Jan Senbergs bound in. The HMAS Armidale was sunk by aerial torpedoes on 1 December 1942. One hundred lives were lost. Survivors from the sea returned to Darwin 10 December, 1942 from the title page. Rare.

• Binding: Hardcover

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