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Sixty years a bookseller

Name: Sixty years a bookseller
Start: 2025-07-28T18:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-07-28T19:30:00+10:00
Location: Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne

Melbourne Rare Book Week

Event Date: 28 July 2025 06:30 PM to 28 July 2025 07:30 PM

Author / Presenters: Kay Craddock in conversation with Jane Sullivan

Event Venue: Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne

Event Organiser: Rare Books Melbourne

Event link: https://rarebooksmelbourne.com/event/sixty-years-a-bookseller/

When a teenaged girl started a retail business with her parents in Essendon in 1965, she could not have imagined the life-long adventure that she had just begun. Today that girl is Kay Craddock, AM, a celebrated international figure in the world of rare and antiquarian books, a past president of the peak Australian and International organisations of antiquarian booksellers, and the founder of Melbourne Rare Book Week. Join us to hear her story in conversation with Melbourne author and literary columnist, Jane Sullivan of The Age.

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