Item #109792 Coo-ee. Official Magazine of the Australian Amateur Press Association. Number 3, April 1952. Hal E. STONE.
Coo-ee. Official Magazine of the Australian Amateur Press Association. Number 3, April 1952
Coo-ee. Official Magazine of the Australian Amateur Press Association. Number 3, April 1952
Coo-ee. Official Magazine of the Australian Amateur Press Association. Number 3, April 1952
Coo-ee. Official Magazine of the Australian Amateur Press Association. Number 3, April 1952

Coo-ee. Official Magazine of the Australian Amateur Press Association. Number 3, April 1952

Gordon, Australian Amateur Press Association, 1952.

Duodecimo, 15, [1] (colophon) pages plus a tipped-in portrait (of Mrs Irene Cummins, one of the contributors); the title page is printed in blue and green, with a vignette illustration; most pages have a decorative border printed in green.

Overlapping wrappers with the attached plain pink tissue wrappers (the latter lightly foxed and a little creased); slight crease to the last three leaves; an excellent copy.

One of only 200 copies of this issue, 'Set up and printed by Hal E. Stone at "Pallamana," Elgin Street, Gordon'. It was the magazine's third and final issue; the first one was published in July 1948. Bookselling was never easy: a lengthy note printed above the colophon castigates the 100 members of the Australian Book Collectors' Society after an advertisement for one of the Amateur Press Association's member's books of verse was placed in a recent issue of 'Biblionews'. 'The result was that exactly one copy was sold ... An amazingly poor response from a book collectors' society of so-called specialists in Australiana and limited editions'.

Item #109792

Price (AUD): $165.00

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