Generations Men by Judith Wright, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Alison Forbes (illustrator). First Edition. Second impression, in the same format and quality as first printing. The jacket is especially attractive and unclipped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Forbes, Alison. (illustrator). First Edition. vii, 222pp, bw ills, map. Or cloth lacking jacket. Spine crudely repaired with black cloth tape, ex-college library with several stamps, occasional pencil underlining. SIGNED, dated and inscribed by author with name of person scratched out (to my friend xxxxxxxx). The history of the author's family ranging from the Hunter Valley to outback Queensland and the New England district of NSW. Size: 8vo. Signed & Inscribed by the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket and illustrations by Alison Forbes (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1959, this is a second impression of 1960. Some edge wear, chipping, creased closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of largely olive green jacket and spine, 1" loss to top of spine, corners rubbed and bruised, some slight yellowing to page block, price clipped, small Australian bookseller's label to bottom front pastedown, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 222pp, illustrated. 'The Generations of Men' is the pioneering story of the ancestors of Australia's best known poet and environmentalist Judith Wright (1915-2000). The names, dates and events are factual and are based on diaries, letters and personal reminiscences. Wright has taken this factual material and with her poet's imagination turned it into a reconstruction of a past era, people, places and even moods. This is a beautifully written family history that documents not only the settling of Wright's own family into New South Wales in the last century, but also the life of a nation, as Australia was colonized by 'generations of men' unsuited in many ways to the historical and geographical context of their new environment. Judith Wright's elegant chronicle is fascinating both as a historical document and a personal meditation. Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. A very scarce book in this early impression.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 222 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear and small pieces missing, but still presentable. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. FIRST EDITION.