Description

Gingerbread Books, Melbourne [Published date: 2006]. Hard cover, 64 pp. First printing, with full number line. Very good in very good dust jacket. Small (5.25" square) black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1/4" tear on the top edge of the paper of the front cover and a few other tiny nicks and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing and scratching. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. [From back cover] 50 Neds is a labor of love by Melbourne artist and writer Maree Coote, who dives head first into the Kelly legend and surfaces with a collection of decorative pieces that are a celebration of a very Australian visual aesthetic. Crammed with flora and fauna unique to Downunder, these colorful works are spontaneous compositions that contain the sparks of many recurring themes and diversions found in Coote's other paintings, sketches and writing. Her interest in Australian history fuses here with a career in the visual arts, and the result is a very playful exploration of the legend of bushranger Ned Kelly...an icon.