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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

  • 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.
  • Includes the regular column 'A Bookseller Talks Shop' and a lengthy reprint from the Times Literary Supplement reviewing works on Wordsworth.
  • Memoirs and a collection of ghost stories are reviewed in 'Some New Books Reviewed'.
  • In 'Cricket' John Quill reviews The Tests of 1930 and Don Bradman's Book.
  • 'News and Notes' also includes 'More Cheap Editions', 'Important Development in Publication of Cheaper Books' and photographs of Thornton Wilder and E. V. Lucas.
  • Also includes reviews of adventure books by Phil Grim.
  • Wicking very briefly reviews popular fiction title in 'Mystery, Murder and Wild West'.
  • 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, George H. Cowling , single work review (p. 34-35)
A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of The Yellow Cygnet Harold Redcliffe , 1930 single work novel ; The Golden Plague : A Romance of the Roaring 'Fifties Wilfred C. Busse , 1930 single work novel ;
(p. 36-37)
The Australian Edgar Wallace, single work review
— Review of Exit Simeon Hex J. M. Walsh , 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, E. C. Davidson , single work review (p. 62)
Society of Australian Authors [Meeting Report], single work column (p. 62)

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