A substantial collection of 'Walkabout' magazine, unbound and in the original pictorial wrappers, running from the Volume 4, Number 1 (February 1935) to Volume 24, Number 1 (January 1958) is offered as one lot
The only issue missing from the run is January 1946. Two issues (December 1935 and January 1938) are water-damaged and the leaves are stuck together. Another two issues (June 1935 and July 1935) have the top right-hand corners affected by water and the leaves cannot be separated without risking (minor) damage to the text. The issue for August 1935 was similarly affected by water; its leaves have now been separated, with minimal paper damage (which includes short tears to the leading edges of a few leaves). Four numbers in 1954 and 1955 have clear tape repairs to the covers (confined mainly to the spines). For the rest, there are some trifling cover blemishes (mainly chips and tiny tears), but overall, the condition is excellent. As a bonus, all 24 issues from June 1959 to May 1961 are included in the lot. This influential Australian magazine commenced publication in November 1934 and appeared monthly (apart from two bi-monthly issues, July-August 1972 and June-July 1974) for more than forty years. November and December 1948 are Volume 14, Numbers 13 and 14, so from January 1949 each volume represents a calendar year. The earliest issues are subtitled 'Australia and the South Seas'. From January 1936, this becomes 'Geographic Magazine. Australia and the South Seas'. From March 1937 to October 1938, it becomes simply 'Geographic Magazine'. From November 1938 to November 1939, it is 'Australia's Geographic Magazine'; this drops out between December 1930 and July 1940, before being taken up again until July 1946. From August 1946 this becomes 'Journal of the Australian Geographical Society' and from May 1947 'Australian Geographical Magazine'. It remained so until the first colour issue appeared in January 1959, when for two issues only it reverted to 'Journal of the Australian Geographical Society'. It went without a subtitle until November 1961; it then became 'Australia's Way of Life Magazine' until January 1971 (apart from October to December 1970 when it was 'The Australian Travel Magazine'). From February 1971 it became 'Australia's Travel Magazine' and from November 1971 to May 1972 (Volume 38, Number 5) it was 'Australia's Travel and Leisure Magazine'. There may not have been an issue for June 1972, but there was a double issue for July-August 1972; the journal effectively ceased publication in July 1974. Although Volume 41, Number 1 appeared in January 1978, it failed to stimulate demand. It is fair to say that the changing subtitles in the latter years reflected a change in the quality of the material published in the magazine, but all the best years - before the introduction of colour - are to be found in this run. Contributors include many household names: Ion Idriess, Frank Clune, Mary Durack, Ernestine Hill, Percy Tarlton Rayment, Donald F. Thomson, Eleanor Dark, H.A. Lindsay, Charles Mountford, Arthur Upfield, Charles Chauvel ... There is much Indigenous and North Australian content, and the photographic illustrations are of lasting significance. [Approximately 300 issues].
Item #134247
Price (AUD):
$3,300.00