The Hammer and Sickle and the Washing Up
1995.
Hyland House Publishing
, Melbourne, Australia
Subtitled 'Memories of an Australian Woman Communist', this is the story of a young female student who followed her immigrant Jewish parents into the Communist party in Australia and became an active member during the most turbulent period of its history- through Menzies attempts to ban it, through the Petrov Commission and increasing anti-communist sentiment. Married at age 21 to an intellectual leader of the party, she thus was also a wife, a mother and homemaker struggling to balance family and political life in the years between Hiroshima and Vietnam, Curtin and Holt, mothercraft and sisterhood. This signed copy is predictably very uncommon too
$24.00
Specifications
| Author | Inglis, Amirah |
| Illustrator | Nil |
| Publisher | Hyland House Publishing |
| Place Published | Melbourne, Australia |
| Year Published | 1995 |
| Date of First Edition or Edition Notes |
First Edition |
| Size | 4to (Quarto) |
| Chapters | IX |
| Pages | 195pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Excellent Condition - Note: In burgundy-red cloth boards with gold titles on the as-new firm spine,the book has no shelf wear at all either neither does the wrapper that has a pictorial front cover and semi-humorous feminist poetry on the lemon yellow rear. Now protected in clear archival covering too. - With Dust Wrapper |
| Overall | Excellent Condition - Note: In near fine condition with the blue pen author's gift inscription neatly written on the half-title page being the only internal marks. |