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y separately published work icon The First Novel Library series - publisher  
Date: 1901
Issue Details: First known date: 1901... 1901 The First Novel Library
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  • The First Novel Library was established in 1901 by T. Fisher Unwin with Wistons, a novel by Miles Amber, a pseudonym for Unwin's sister-in-law, Mrs. Cobden Sickert. 'Obituary for T. Fisher Unwin'.The Times, 7 February 1935: 16.

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y separately published work icon A Pagan's Love Constance Clyde , London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1905 Z312559 1905 single work novel
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y separately published work icon Tussock Land : A Romance of New Zealand and the Commonwealth Arthur H. Adams , London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1904 Z441332 1904 single work novel London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1904
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y separately published work icon The Ashes of Achievement Frank A. Russell , Melbourne : C. J. DeGaris Publishing House , 1920 Z112574 1920 single work novel E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature From Its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 746 describes the work as a 'Romance of a Riverina boy who becomes a successful Australian actor and playwright. Action moves between Melbourne and Sydney, with a break in New York. Several prominent Australian artists are easily recognized under their fictitious names. The early chapters contain a vivid account of the Melbourne Public Schools boat race at the time when Wesley College crews were at their zenith. An interesting portraiture is given of Sugden, the Master of Queen's, under the character of 'Savile'. London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1921
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y separately published work icon Murder in the Telephone Exchange June Wright , London : Hutchinson , 1948 Z145873 1948 single work novel crime detective

'June Wright’s debut stars feisty young telephonist Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues at Melbourne Central is murdered – her head bashed in with a “buttinsky,” a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls – Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. A couple of her co-workers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better chance of figuring out who is responsible for the killing than the stodgy police team assigned to the case, who seem to think she herself might have had something to do with it. But then one of her friends is murdered too, and it looks like Maggie might be next in line. ' (Publication summary)

 London : Hutchinson , 1948

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