MORTON, Peter

Fire across the Desert. Woomera and the Anglo-Australian Joint Project, 1946-1980

Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, December 1989 (first reprint)/ September 1989.

Foolscap folio, xx, 575 pages with numerous maps, illustrations and plates plus 12 pages of colour plates.

Synthetic cloth; ownership signature on the front flyleaf; a fine copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased along the bottom edge of the front panel.

Loosely inserted is the invitation to the book launch in Adelaide (16 October 1989) and two contemporary newspaper clippings about the book ('The much-lauded Anglo-Australian Woomera project was in fact a costly, secretive and grandiose folly, according to the author of a book on the project published this week').

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