[SYDNEY] Kings Cross, 1936-1946.

Cover title: Memories, Kings Cross, 1936-1946. Potts Point [N.S.W.] : Kings Cross Community Aid and Information Service, 1981. Large quarto (305 x 210 mm), original stiff wrappers (light edge wear) with gold lettering; pp. 161, plus [17] pp of plates (including two paintings by Rosaleen Norton and a photograph of the Witch of Kings Cross working on another of her paintings) and many smaller text illustrations; index; light foxing to fore-edge, previous owner’s name to title-page, but a very good copy.

A fascinating, well-illustrated social history of the Cross in the 1930s and 40s: anecdotes of the bohemian characters, restaurants and clubs, and descriptions of now-vanished buildings and architecture.