Opperman Hubert (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. First edition - 8vo. Very good copy - KAW0293 - 17pp. - Australian Institute of International Affairs, Canberra Australia. 1966. Hardback. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. First edition - 8vo. Very good copy - KAW0293 - 17pp. - Australian Institute of International Affairs, Canberra Australia. 1966. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. First edition - 8vo. Very good copy - KAW0787 - 17pp. - A J Author Commonwealth Gov. Printer, Canberra Australia. 1966. Hardback. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. First edition - 8vo. Very good copy - KAW0787 - 17pp. - A J Author Commonwealth Gov. Printer, Canberra Australia. 1966. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear & edge tears jacket (tape repairs folds reverse side, reverse side lightly foxed, front cover little scuffed), owner's written name, autograph (author's written dedication label front pastedown), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 511 pp. Sir Hubert Opperman (Oppy, 1904 - 1996) was Australia's most famous professional cyclist in the 1920s and 1930s. His records included marathons such as Fremantle - Sydney, Kalgoorlie - Perth, and the Paris - Brest - Paris road race. He later became a long-time cabinet minister in the Australian Parliament and its foreign representative in Malta. This book is his account of his amazing cycling and political careers. In 1996, at the age of 91, he died of a heart attack on his exercise bike at his Melbourne home. (Written dedication reads: With best wishes, Hubert Opperman, 'Oppy'.).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 511pp, index, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear, 8mm tear at bottom of rear jacket panel, very light rubbing to jacket folds. SIGNED 'Best Wishes Hubert Opperman Oppy' on front free endpaper. Scarce autobiography of Australia's great cyclist and Olympian, Hubert Opperman, known as 'Oppy'. As well as his unparallelled cycling career Oppy served in Federal Government as Member for Corio, and as Australian representative to Malta. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

512pp. 8vo. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper, with some light wear at extremities. Black and white photographic plates. A very good copy. First edition. Signed and inscribed by author.