THE KELLY GANG

Hardback, 1st Australian edn. The story of Ned Kelly and his notorious gang of bushrangers - their spectacular raids on banks and towns, the murders of 3 policemen at Stringybark Creek and of the informer Aaron Sherritt, the final shootout at Glenrowan - is a familiar and oft-told one in Astralia. The editor has gone to the original sources - contemporary newspaper accounts, personal reminiscences, police reports - to retell the Kelly story as faithfully and as factually as possible. Lavishly illus. with reproductions of original line drawings from the Illustrated Australian News, the Illustrated Sydney News and the Australasian Sketcher, and with 9 colour plates from the famous 'Ned Kelly' series painted by one of Australia's best known contemporary artists, Sidney Nolan. 64pp. 4to. hardback. F. in Vg. dw.