Hell and Heaven. The Last Message free to all Australians
Adelaide, The Author, [circa 1943].
Small octavo, 32 pages with 3 illustrations (portraits from photographs).
Saddle-stapled orange title-wrappers slightly marked; light tidemark to the leading and bottom margins of most leaves (well clear of the text); a very good copy.
Essentially a proselytising tract, with the main essay followed by portraits and short biographies of converts to Islam, a list of 'What a girl should learn', and various prayers. Mahomet Allum (1858?-1964), camel-driver, herbalist and philanthropist, was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan; he arrived in Australia between 1884 and 1890, and eventually settled in Adelaide around 1928 or 1929.... Allum married in 1940, with Moslem rites, Jean Emsley, a patient; next year, when he was about 83 and his wife 20, a daughter was born. In 1953 the family travelled to Afghanistan, intending to remain. His wife died, and Allum returned in 1954 with his daughter to Adelaide, where he resumed practice as a herbalist' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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