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Issue Details:
First known date:
1937...
vol.
9
no.
2
12 February
1937
of
All About Books
est. 1928
All About Books
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Notes
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Cover photograph captioned: Edward Harrington Whose Poems are Reviewed
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Includes a very brief note of congratulation to Mary Gilmore on being made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire (p.24).
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Includes payment details of the agreement on broadcasting from copyright books between the Publisher's Asscoiation of Great Britain and Ireland and the BBC.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1937 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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All Sorts of Reading for Everyone: Literature in the U.S.A.,
single work
review
(p. 18)While discussing van Wyck Brooks' The Flowering of New England the reviewer (probably Cowling) compares the development of American and Australian literatures concluding that Australian literature 'will not develop until 1950 or 1960'.
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Play Competition,
single work
correspondence
(p. 20)Details of entry into the Club's annual competition to be judged in London and 'open only to Australian-born dramatists'.
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New Australian Books,
single work
review
— Review of Poems Lyrical and Descriptive 1936 selected work poetry ; White Magic : Nature Fantasies and Other Poems 1936 selected work poetry ; Boundary Bend and Other Ballads 1936 selected work poetry ; Big Timber 1936 single work novel ; Seed and Stubble 1936 single work novel ; Seeing the World Twice 1926-1935 1936 single work autobiography ; Through Darkest Pondelayo : An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island 1936 single work novel ; (p. 21-23) -
French Prizes for Articles,
single work
correspondence
(p. 23)Includes a translation of a letter from the Secretary General of the Commissariat General au Tourisme (France) offering three annual cash prizes to 'foreign writers, journalists, or publicists, who have published, outside of the French frontiers, a work, a study or a series of articles on France from the tourist, health or climate viewpoint'.
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Outstanding New Publications and Best Sellers,
single work
column
(p. 29, 31)Best seller lists from England and America and A.B.A. list.
- Angus & Robertson in London, single work prose (p. 31)
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'The Times' on The Sentimental Bloke,
single work
review
— Review of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke 1915 selected work poetry ;(p. 31)Reprint of a review attributed to the Times on the release of the Selwyn and Blount imprint.
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