Loreley Morling (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Condition is as new. No damage to book. Like New. Stiff board. 164 pages Book weight is 0.255kg.

Softcover. Condition: FINE. 164 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 21 cm. #1119. Pioneers -- Western Australia -- Biography. | Western Australia -- Biography. | Western Australia -- Genealogy. 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.

First Edition. Pp. [iv]+viii+188, 12 plates, full page genealogical chart, appendices, bibliography, notes, index; wide post 8vo; pictorial stiff red paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; the author, Perth, 2000. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Biography of the author's uncle, John Holland, who when war broke out broadcast news commentaries over the German-Controlled radio station in Shanghai and Radio Tokyo in Japan. 'His ego led to a falling-out with his Japanese employers which resulted in interrogation by the Kempeitai and incarceration in appalling conditions in a Hokkaido jail. On his release from prison he was arrested by the Allied authorities along with the notorious Tokyo Rose. There followed a comic opera paper-chase over three continents in an attempt to pin a charge of collaboration on him' [Introduction]. Signed.