Cooper's Creek (signed copy)

Moorehead, Alan

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1963

About this Item

1963. First edition. x, 222pp., Reprint with corrections. x, 369pp., a map on the endpapers, and many black and white illustrations, both on plates and within the text. Top edge gilt. Alan McCrae Moorehead (1910-1983) was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile. Born in Australia, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937. In 1860, an expedition set out from Melbourne, Australia, into the interior of the country, with the mission to find a route to the northern coast. Headed by Robert O Hara Burke and William John Wills, the party of adventurers, scientists, and camels set out into the outback hoping to find enough water and to keep adequate food stores for their trek into the bush. Almost one year later, Burke, Wills, and two others from their party, Gray and King, reached the northern shore but on their journey back, they were stranded at Cooper s Creek where all but King perished. Cooper s Creek is a gripping, intense historical narrative about the harshness of the Australian outback and the people who were brave enough to go into the very depths of that uncharted country. The book is bound in maroon cloth covered bevelled boards with gold titling on a leather label on the spine and gold stamped publisher's emblem on the bottom of the spine. We believe this may be a limited edition presentation binding although there is no statement confirming this within the book. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the top of the spine and some wear to the title label. The contents are tight and clean with light foxing to the first and last few pages, including the half-title and title pages and the frontispiece. There is also some foxing on the fore edge of the text block and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the fore margin. The half-title page has been flat-signed by the author.

Seller Inventory # gAustralia04

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cooper's Creek (signed copy)
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australasia