The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1998.
Quarto, xxiv, 376 pages with a few illustrations plus 8 pages of plates from photographs (4 full-page).
Quarter cloth and papered boards (with a colour-pictorial inlay on the front cover); cloth lightly marked; top corners and the bottom edge of the front cover slightly bumped; textblock lightly tanned (presumably as ever); occasional pencilling (but see below); a very good copy.
The hardback edition was limited to only 500 copies. The book comes from the collection of a well-known journalist, whose pencilled annotations start on the half-title with 'Pathetic & heartbreaky'. Loosely inserted is the print-out of a contemporary email from a colleague regarding, in the main, the book: both parties are mentioned seven or eight times in the index. 'In life she alternated between being sweet as pie and utterly gangrenous about everyone' appears early in the text of that email; we'll leave the rest for the purchaser of this item.... Several relevant newspaper clippings are also included; not least is a review by Samela Harris titled 'Diary of misery strips author of final dignity'.
Item #142481
Price (AUD):
$550.00