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Edité par National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2022
Vendeur : Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australie
Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : near fine. Reprint. Complete in four hardcover volumes : pp. [iii] lviii, 485 [486] : [iii] xxxix [xl] 711 [712] : [iii] xxiii [xxiv] 711 [712] : [iii] xxiii [xxiv] 711 [712] : illustrated in colour and b&w : black boards lettered in gilt to spine : each dust jacket with a different portrait Crease to spine of volume 3 near tail; tail of spine gently pushed, volume 1; occasional tiny spot to text blocks; margins of jacket flaps a little toned. Donald Friend (6 February 1914 - 17 August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist. He travelled widely, living for a time in Britain, Italy, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Bali. Over the course of his life he produced 47 diaries, most of which were illustrated. These were published by the National Library of Australia as The Diaries of Donald Friend in four volumes between 2001 and 2006. The publication of the diaries and the release of the documentary A Loving Friend (Negara Film and Television, 2013), have resulted in Friend largely being shunned as a paedophile by the Australian artistic community. According to David Marr he was ".often drunk, usually in love - with the next man or the next painting." and he poured all his pleasure and the comedy and pain of his life into his diaries.