Numbers 353–356Age of the Story Tellers: British popular fiction magazines 1880–1950, M Ashley, 355–6:159–62, reviewAitken, Michael, Victorian Branch Members’ Night, 355–6:158Ashley, Mike, The Age of the Story Tellers: British popular fiction magazines 1880–1950, 355–6:159–62, reviewAustralian Ladies’ Annual, 353:26–31Aytoun, Elvira, Victorian Branch Members’ Night, 355–6:156Barnes, Katherine, The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan’s Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism, … Continue reading Biblionews—Index 2007
Category: 2008-March Issue
2008-03
Catalogues etc. have been received from a couple of publishers. Below are the details in case anyone wishes to contact them about their offerings.Oak Knoll Press, Publishers of Fine Bibliographies & Other Books About Books, catalogue for Spring–Summer 2007 (furnished with colour illustrations).Postal address: 310 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720, USA Phone: (302) 328-7232 … Continue reading Catalogues- March 2008
From 1971 until his death in 2005 James Dally, the respected antiquarian bookseller in Tasmania and Adelaide, also published (under his own name or under the imprint Sullivan’s Cove) a series of fine editions of historical texts relating to Australia, and particularly to Tasmania. He sought out texts which were both interesting and of historical importance, and which had either never been published or which were previously published in such a form as to make them difficult of access today. As well, he provided (under the pseudonym Eustace FitzSymonds) impressively meticulous and detailed explanatory footnotes, often with an amusingly mordant turn of phrase. Years of work went into each volume. It was obviously a labour of love, but one wonders how he also had the time to run his antiquarian book business.
THE ACTING PRESIDENTIAL bottle of wine won by John Newland at the December 2007 Show & Tell meeting (and being presented to him in the accompanying photo) happens to have an interesting connection with a couple of books in my possession. The label tells us that the bottle in question was a 2001 Mount Macleod Pinot Noir, almost an echo of the “Auld Alliance” between Scotland and France by the sound of it. Clearly the pinot noir is a French grape variety, but what has this Mount Macleod to do with Scotland?