Welcome to Hesperian Press
Hesperian Press has been publishing Real Australian Books since 1969 when its principal, Peter Bridge, first published technical material. The current program commenced in 1979 and Hesperian now has published over 600 titles, with up to 20 works in progress at any time
PLEASE NOTE: Any book title starting with "The" - the second word of the title is used to list by.
All prices quoted are in Australian currency and include GST. * Short trade discount.
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Vale Patricia Elizabeth Clift (nee Studdy)
The passing of Patricia Elizabeth (Pat) Clift occurred on July 2 this year, just a few weeks short of her 91st birthday. Pat's interesting life included the roles of farmer, wife, mother, author, illustrator and teacher. She is perhaps best remembered locally as an author of a number of Australian history books on exciting people and events in our nation's colourful past under the name of Pat Studdy-Clift.
Born in Gunnedah in 1926 to parents Gordon and Jean Studdy, Pat came second in the family with an older sister, Joan, and a younger brother, Tom. Her initial education came via Blackfriars Correspondence School at the family rural property, "Kareela", outside of Gunnedah, followed by secondary schooling in Sydney at Ascham Girls School to Intermediate standard.
Murder at Maylands
Executed under an alias
W.C. Charnley & Peter J. Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-670-0, (New, 2017), 22 pages, illustrated, A4, 70 grams
$15.00* + POST
For 90 years the true identity and fate of a murderer has been hidden.
Producer Gas Plants
Hoskins Foundry
ISBN 978-0-85905-664-9, (New, 2017), 55 pages, illustrated, A4, 150 grams
$25.00* + POST
Reprint of ultra-rare catalogue of industrial downdraft gas producers from over a century ago.
The Six-Mile Murder
Rifles and Rotgut, Mary Jane Wain and James Conley
Peter J Bridge
ISBN 978-0-85905-669-4, (New, 2017), 41 pages, illustrated, A4, 115 grams
$22.00* + POST
The murder and trial that created a sensation in WA in 1897.
The Yelma Station diary of Arthur C. Ashwin for 1928
Arthur C. Ashwin
ISBN 978-0-85905-663-2, (New, 2017), 40 pages,, A4, 120 grams
$22.00* + POST
Gold and Ghosts volumes. We have been inundated, harassed, and aggravated by enquiries for these out of print books. Please do not contact Hesperian as we are no longer the publishers, all rights having been reasserted by the author long ago.
All Hesperian Press books are prepared, printed and published in Perth.
Many years ago, due to the stranglehold that certain local companies had on the industry, we printed in Singapore, but those days are long past.
We do not subscribe to printing in mainland China, a degenerate habit of several of our “reptile contemporaries,” as the old goldfield’s papers termed other “rags”.
It appears that the more taxpayer funds that are received by these PC groups, the quicker they send the dollars offshore. The use of overseas slave labour does not appear to result in the lowering of local prices, or to substantially increase the viability of said groups. CCP cannibalistic murder for thought crimes, where the prisoner's organs are sold to local and foreign scum for transplants, makes accessories after the fact all who trade with China, in some of the worst mass murders of this century.
Just because we are anti-China does not mean we support the USSA-UK, which are actually far worse, not the least because they should know better. If you do not understand by now who the real enemy is (vide Pogo) then it is time you did the world a favour. There is little doubt that the Earth has never seen a greater degeneracy than that exhibited by the USA-UK 1% and their satanic incubus. It has been hard work to descend to that level, and it's a 'one way' street.
Localisation, not globalisation.
We believe that one must support the nation that breeds you and feeds you, both physically and spiritually. Exporting our jobs is like exporting our raw minerals, it only benefits a comprador class of parasites.