The Kelly Hunters: The Authentic, Impartial History of the Life and Times of Edward Kelly, the Ironclad Outlaw [*SIGNED*]

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1958. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear to book; the jacket is edgeworn, with shallow chipping all along the top edge, a 1.5-inch split at the top rear flapfold, a handful of other small edge-tears]. (pen & ink drawings, endpaper maps) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the dedication page: "For my old friend / Ron Whelan / from one bushranger / to another / Yours Sincerely / Frank Clune / Vancluse / 9-9-61." In this account of the career of the notorious and still-controversial Australian outlaw/national hero Ned Kelly, the author has aimed to present "the facts, fully and clearly, thus enabling readers to draw their own conclusions [and] to avoid the sentimental exaggeration and the prejudice that have marred most accounts of thet Kelly Gang." He begins by tracing Kelly's ancestry, "correcting many errors of previous writers, and goes on to tell of his birth, boyhood, education and adversities under pioneering conditions in the bush, and the influences that led him to become an outlaw." Signed by Author .