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Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to Winifred
  • Epigraph: Each, desperate, his sword against the world, A blow for his diverse illusion tries. The truth man leaps to when the banner's furled, And man confronts his bosom, makes him wise. - Sonnets of Baylebridge
  • Author's Foreword: This essay was written in three instalments: the first in June 1935, the second in July 1935, and the third in January 1936. It was originally intended for serial publication, and the first instalment was so published, in 'The Australian Mercury' (July 1935). The second and third instalments are now printed for the first time, 'The Australian Mercury' having suspended publication because no philanthropist could be found to nurse it financially....P.R.S. Sydney. February, 1936.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Gordon, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: W. J. Miles , 1936 .
      Printed by Forward Press
      Extent: 192p.
      Note/s:
      • Craig Munro (164-166) records that W. J. Miles paid Stephensen ten pounds to help complete the final instalment of the work. By the end of January 1936 he had also paid the Communist party printery, Forward Press, a deposit for the publication in book form of The Foundations of Culture in Australia. Two thousand copies of the book were printed with yellow paper covers in February 1936. Miles agreed to pay royalties of tenpence a copy, representing about 40% of the retail price of two shillings. Stephensen received more than sixty pounds in the first two months of sales. (Craig Munro Wild Man of Letters: the Story of P. R. Stephensen (1984)).
    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1986 .
      Extent: xxvii, 192p.p.
      Description: illus., facsim.ports.
      Note/s:
      • A new introduction by Craig Munro.
      ISBN: 0049090291
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