Item #122418 Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]. Australian Modernism, 'Tomorrow'.
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]
Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]

Tomorrow. The Outspoken Monthly [a substantially complete run of eight of the ten numbers, together with a mock-up of the first issue]

Melbourne, Tomorrow Publications, [early 1946] to December 1946.

Large quarto and quarto (from Number 5), each number comprising 32 pages with numerous illustrations with the covers printed in red and black; the mock-up contains 40 pages, printed without colour).

Saddle-stapled newsprint; acidic paper a little tanned; the mock-up lacks the rear wrapper, and its front cover is a little chipped on the vertical edges; a few unobtrusive spots and creases elsewhere, but overall, in excellent condition, with the mock-up now housed in a Mylar sleeve.

This scarce left-wing journal was financed by John and Sunday Reed, and edited anonymously by Jack Bellew. It appeared monthly from March to December 1946 (as Volume 1, Numbers 1 to 10); this run lacks only Number 1 (March) and Number 3 (May). Offered together with an undated early mock-up of the first issue (as indicated by the editorial on page 13), with significant variations from the published version. The front cover design is markedly different, and the subtitle 'Features the Atomic Age'. The rest of the cover text could be a prospectus: 'Something New And Vital In Journalism[.] World News Round-Up by Leading Writers and Artists[.] Popular Presentation of Your Peacetime Problems For the People!' - and in case none of that's your cup of tea, there's also going to be a 'Japanese Slave Girl's Story'. Approximately half the volume contains only headlines with minimal place-holding text and illustrations, and printed borders around spaces earmarked for additional text, illustrations and advertisements.

'Advertised in the 1945 issue of "Angry Penguins": "Something New in Journalism: a non-party monthly review of Australian and world progress compiled by leading journalists and artists". It was subsequently published as "Tomorrow: The Outspoken Monthly" but ran for only ten issues from March 1946 to December 1946. It contained a wide selection of left-wing journalism by Australian journalists, much of it pseudonymous, and included writers connected with Reed & Harris such as Reg Ellery, John Sinclair, Harry Roskolenko and Max Harris. The magazine sold for sixpence, and a facsimile letter from Gordon and Gotch, reproduced in the second issue, provided evidence that they had distributed 30,000 copies of the first issue. Although financially sponsored by John Reed, neither Reed nor the firm Reed & Harris were listed as editor or publisher of the magazine' (Des Cowley: 'A Checklist of Reed & Harris Publications' in 'The La Trobe Journal', Number 64, Spring 1999). [9 items].

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