![]() ![]() Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. ![]() In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. Preceded the overseas editions by some four months. | A pristine first printing in the impractical plain opaque dustwrapper that is very rarely found in such good condition - small tear and a few small cracks to the spine of the dustwrapper | Includes dust jacket | ISBN9780702231674 / 0702231673 The novel won a host of awards including the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Booker Prize. ![]() | Original quarter calf, fore-edge uncut, double-page map. True History of the Kelly Gang by CAREY, Peter First Edition Publisher University of Queensland Press | 2000 | First Edition | Hardcover | Fine. Octavo. ![]()
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