Goodbye Jerusalem. Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider
Sydney, Vintage, 1997 (suppressed first edition).
Octavo, [xiv], 606 pages.
Colour-pictorial card covers; paper a little tanned; a near-fine copy.
Inscribed and signed by the author, and signed by Margaret Whitlam. This first edition 'was pulped following a successful defamation action brought against the publisher, Random House, by Liberal Party politicians Tony Abbott and Peter Costello on behalf of their respective wives. The libellous text is on pages 472-473 ...' (Cains 48). 'A portrait of the heart of the True Believers ... For over three decades Bob Ellis has trod the fringes of the corridors of power. Here he gives a personal insight into the tribe that is the Australian Labor Party: the personalities, the quirks, the fabled anecdotes and the grand ideals' (from the blurb). Ellis has inscribed and signed the dedication page: 'To Don and Mary, Half-heard music on a winter's night of a Promised Land long lost & legendary now from one who was, briefly, there. The purpose of life, as the man said, is to remember. Next year - Jerusalem. Bob Ellis. 4.3.98'. The book is also signed by Margaret Whitlam, wife of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, on page [i], also dated 4 March 1998. Cains 48.
Item #146540
Price (AUD):
$550.00