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Melbourne’s fashions

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March 2006, no. 279

Collins: The story of Australia’s premier street by Judith Raphael Buckrich (with Keith Dunstan, Rohan Storey and Marc Strizic)

Arcadia, $89.95 hb, 270 pp, 1740970578

Go! Melbourne: Melbourne in the sixties edited by Seamus O’Hanlon and Tanja Luckins

Circa Press, $34.95 pb, 306 pp, 0975780204

Melbourne’s fashions

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March 2006, no. 279

Two new books with Melbourne as their subject couldn’t be more disparate in size, form, content and accuracy. Collins: The Story of Australia’s Premier Street is a big, well-designed book. It has a mysterious provenance and more than a smattering of inaccuracies: but it has pictures. These are mostly from the State Library of Victoria, and even those dating from the early years of outside photography provide clear details of the buildings and people of the time. They will enchant even those who dare think that our premier street is not so very different from the main streets of Manchester or Madison.

Collins: The story of Australia’s premier street

Collins: The story of Australia’s premier street

by Judith Raphael Buckrich (with Keith Dunstan, Rohan Storey and Marc Strizic)

Arcadia, $89.95 hb, 270 pp, 1740970578

Go! Melbourne: Melbourne in the sixties

edited by Seamus O’Hanlon and Tanja Luckins

Circa Press, $34.95 pb, 306 pp, 0975780204

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