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A brush with the past : my early years in Launceston
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A brush with the past : my early years in Launceston

by Peter Mercer

A memoir detailing childhood in an Australian provincial city and education at the Launceston Church Grammar School during the 1940s and 1950s.

Accession 25880 ISBN 9780648168836 Publisher —
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