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Issue Details:
First known date:
1931...
vol.
3
no.
2
16 February
1931
of
All About Books
est. 1928
All About Books
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Notes
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Cover features a photograph of Theodore Dreiser captioned : One of the authors who look as if they would write the kind of books they do.
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Includes the regular column 'A Bookseller Talks Shop' and a lengthy reprint from the Times Literary Supplement reviewing works on Wordsworth.
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Memoirs and a collection of ghost stories are reviewed in 'Some New Books Reviewed'.
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In 'Cricket' John Quill reviews The Tests of 1930 and Don Bradman's Book.
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'News and Notes' also includes 'More Cheap Editions', 'Important Development in Publication of Cheaper Books' and photographs of Thornton Wilder and E. V. Lucas.
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Also includes reviews of adventure books by Phil Grim.
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Wicking very briefly reviews popular fiction title in 'Mystery, Murder and Wild West'.
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Also includes a review of the memoirs of Seymour Hicks, and 'The Art of Reading' an extract from a paper by Aldous Huxley.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1931 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Two Books Reviewed, single work review (p. 34-35)
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A Reader's Notebook,
single work
review
— Review of The Yellow Cygnet 1930 single work novel ; The Golden Plague : A Romance of the Roaring 'Fifties 1930 single work novel ; (p. 36-37) -
The Australian Edgar Wallace,
single work
review
— Review of Exit Simeon Hex 1930 single work novel ; (p. 46) - The Choice of the World, single work column (p. 50, 59)
- Important Forthcoming Australian Books, single work column (p. 61)
- New Plays, single work review (p. 62)
- Society of Australian Authors [Meeting Report], single work column (p. 62)
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