Humping My Bluey by Graham McInnes

Humping My Bluey

by Graham McInnes

Hamish Hamilton, 1966 [First Edition], hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, slight lean, small indentation at bottom fore-edge, price-clipped dust-jacket shows edge and shelf wear with repairs, rubbing, chips and tears to edges, rubbing and sticker residue (see photographs)

"The first volume of Graham McInnes' autobiography, The Road to Gundagai, was hailed by the critics as a masterly evocation of a boyhood spent in Australia with his mother, Angela Thirkell.  Humping My Bluey - which, to those uninitiated in Aussie slang, means 'carrying my swag' - continues his story as far as his decision to go to Canada and meet his own father.
It was an exciting age to live in and the pages of this book echo faithfully the feeling of the inter-war decades.  With the departure of his mother and his brother, Colin, for England, Graham was left very much to his own devices, and he used his time very sensibly in the pursuit of life and, less often, of learning."