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Issue Details:
First known date:
1947...
vol.
1
no.
11
May
1947
of
The Australasian Book News and Library Journal
est. 1946
The Australasian Book News and Library Journal
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Notes
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Also includes a review of Philip Wylie's Generation of Vipers.
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Includes Books Published in Australia: List of Books Supplied to the National Library, Canberra, under the Provisions of the Copyright Act. 23 February - 26 March 1947 (pp. 520-524)
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1947 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Forgotten Men, single work prose (p. 477)
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Hard Red Earth,
single work
review
— Review of Men Against the Earth 1946 single work novel ; (p. 479-480) - Poet of Force and Courage, single work (p. 481-83)
- Men Against the Earth, extract novel (p. 485, 487-88)
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The Undying Islands,
single work
review
— Review of A South Sea Diary 1942 single work autobiography ; (p. 489-491) -
Warning to Wantons,
single work
review
— Review of Flying Fox and Drifting Sand : The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia 1937 single work autobiography ; (p. 493-494) -
Grandeur of the Murray,
single work
review
— Review of Water into Gold : The Taming of the Mighty Murray River 1937 single work prose ; (p. 495, 524) - Story-Telling Guardsman, single work biography (p. 497-98)
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Tales of the Desert and the Diggings,
single work
review
— Review of Washdirt : A Novel of Old Bendigo 1946 single work novel ; (p. 502-503) -
Recent Books: Digest of the Month's Reading,
single work
review
— Review of Sunday at Yarralumla : A Symphony 1947 selected work poetry ; Wanderer's Rest 1946 selected work prose ; All That Swagger 1936 single work novel ; Ben Hall : The Bushranger 1947 single work novel ; (p. 507-508) - Needs in Children's Books, single work criticism (p. 509-510)
- Lucky Elisabeth : Elisabeth MacIntyre, single work biography (p. 511, 513)
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Recent Children's Books,
single work
review
— Review of Quitters Can't Win 1946 single work children's fiction ; Meet the Lees : an Australian story for boys and girls 1946 single work children's fiction ; Jungle Vagabonds 1942 selected work children's fiction ; (p. 514) -
Open Letter to an Author-Artist,
single work
correspondence
Pownall reviews Nicholls' About Ships : From the Egyptian Galley to the Queen Elizabeth.
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Do's and Dont's,
single work
column
Riddle reports on a speech by Dr. Ethel Ewig, Education Director, Institute of Pacific Relations, Buffalo, New York. Nine points for 'writers of books on other lands for young people' concludes: 'Stress likeness rather than queerness of foreign habits.'
- Australian Book Exhibit for Overseas, single work column (p. 518)
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