The Adelie Blizzard. Mawson's Forgotten Newspaper, 1913
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australian Museum, 2010 (first edition).
Folio, xxvi pages with maps and illustrations plus a facsimile reproduction of the original typescript of the five issues (in all, 216 pages with a few illustrations, plus, for each issue, a colour plate and introductory title page new to this edition).
Half leather and cloth decorated in gilt and silver; a fine copy.
Number 16 of only 199 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of 999 copies: the balance of the print-run comprised 450 copies in cloth, 300 in card covers and 50 sets of unbound sheets). One copy only of each of the five issues of 'The Adelie Blizzard' was produced during Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, in April, May, June, August and October 1913. The original - and hitherto unpublished - typescript is reproduced here, complete with numerous contemporary editorial annotations. This edition has a preface by Emma McEwin (great-granddaughter of Sir Douglas Mawson), and an 11-page introduction by Elizabeth Leane and Mark Pharaoh.
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