Posts Tagged: earliest acquisitions
One of the World’s Workers
The Gay Provider:The Myer Story Alan Marshall Melbourne: FW Cheshire, 1961 I shop there all the time, you’d think I’d have noticed, wouldn’t you?
One of the World’s Workers
The Gay Provider:The Myer Story Alan Marshall Melbourne: FW Cheshire, 1961 I shop there all the time, you’d think I’d have noticed, wouldn’t you?
Mike’s new best friend
The Sea Queen. by Constance Savery, London: Lutterworth Press, 1965. Illustrated by Cicely Steed. “Mike is on the beach picking up wood. The beautiful Sea Queen comes drifting in to his feet…” Lucky old Mike, eh? But, no, this first
Mike’s new best friend
The Sea Queen. by Constance Savery, London: Lutterworth Press, 1965. Illustrated by Cicely Steed. “Mike is on the beach picking up wood. The beautiful Sea Queen comes drifting in to his feet…” Lucky old Mike, eh? But, no, this first
More for your money
Long Youth Long Pleasure: Adventures behind the scenes at the University of New England 1956-80. by Cherry Robertson. Armidale (NSW), Lightning Press, 1982. You’d have to read it, I suppose, to find out just how long.
More for your money
Long Youth Long Pleasure: Adventures behind the scenes at the University of New England 1956-80. by Cherry Robertson. Armidale (NSW), Lightning Press, 1982. You’d have to read it, I suppose, to find out just how long.
A strangely attractive volume
The Enticing Stranger. by J.K. Stunt. London: Victory Press, 1963. Perhaps there’s another way of looking at this title and cover. But I just can’t see it. Victory Press did evangelical Christian stuff, so you just know that when the
A strangely attractive volume
The Enticing Stranger. by J.K. Stunt. London: Victory Press, 1963. Perhaps there’s another way of looking at this title and cover. But I just can’t see it. Victory Press did evangelical Christian stuff, so you just know that when the
Wouldn’t you rather be called ‘ginger’?
Coppernob: Second Mate. by Lawrence Bourne. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, OUP, nd (c. 1943). This was the second Coppernob book, so, presumably, no one laughed the first time. How extraordinary. Anyhow, my curious yet cursory reading didn’t reveal what happened to
Wouldn’t you rather be called ‘ginger’?
Coppernob: Second Mate. by Lawrence Bourne. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, OUP, nd (c. 1943). This was the second Coppernob book, so, presumably, no one laughed the first time. How extraordinary. Anyhow, my curious yet cursory reading didn’t reveal what happened to
Wonders will never…
The Wonder of all the Gay World: A novel of the life and loves of Robert Burns. by James Barke. London: Collins, 1949. You see how educational this hobby is? I had literally no idea. My copy (fourth impression, 1956)
Wonders will never…
The Wonder of all the Gay World: A novel of the life and loves of Robert Burns. by James Barke. London: Collins, 1949. You see how educational this hobby is? I had literally no idea. My copy (fourth impression, 1956)
Getting to grips
The Mastery of Sex Through Psychology and Religion.by Leslie D. Weatherhead. London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1933. I haven’t read it, but I do hope that they managed to master it eventually.
Getting to grips
The Mastery of Sex Through Psychology and Religion.by Leslie D. Weatherhead. London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1933. I haven’t read it, but I do hope that they managed to master it eventually.
Little Nell
How Nell Scored by Bessie Marchant. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons.(The ‘Peerless Series’). nd. c.1950. The evergreen Bessie Marchant has supplied my collection with a few gems, this and Nancy Afloat were founding acquisitions. This one must have been very
Little Nell
How Nell Scored by Bessie Marchant. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons.(The ‘Peerless Series’). nd. c.1950. The evergreen Bessie Marchant has supplied my collection with a few gems, this and Nancy Afloat were founding acquisitions. This one must have been very
The clincher…
Nancy Afloat. By Bessie Marchant. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, nd (circa 1940). Illustrated by Savile Lumley. The contents list gives us a lively impression of what the book is about. Click the image for a clearer view. Nancy is
The clincher…
Nancy Afloat. By Bessie Marchant. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, nd (circa 1940). Illustrated by Savile Lumley. The contents list gives us a lively impression of what the book is about. Click the image for a clearer view. Nancy is
The happiest campers
The Bobsey Twins Camping Out. by Laura Lee Hope, Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. The second of my collection. Found just a few minutes after Peter Lawson Camper on that fateful day. Imagining the bone-crushing 1950s niceness of a Bobsey Twins
The happiest campers
The Bobsey Twins Camping Out. by Laura Lee Hope, Grosset & Dunlap, 1955. The second of my collection. Found just a few minutes after Peter Lawson Camper on that fateful day. Imagining the bone-crushing 1950s niceness of a Bobsey Twins
Queer doings and other inadvertentalia 