Alternative Publishing Co-operative records, 1974-1998

MLMSS 8028

fonds

1974-1998

Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

403160

2.10 metres of textual material (14 boxes)
1 sound cassette

Alternative Publishing Co-operative Limited (APCOL) was a small independent publisher established in Sydney in 1975. It sought to develop an exclusively Australian book list and provide an alternative to the multinational control on book publishing in Australia. APCOL's co-operative structure underpinned its independent status. Book lovers were encouraged to take out shares in APCOL and to become involved in all aspects of its operations.

From 1975 to 1989 APCOL produced a quality list of titles, particularly in non-fiction. It became a leading publisher of books on Aboriginal issues. In the field of auto/biography it published Stan Arneil's One Man's War (1980), his best-selling account of being an Australian prisoner of war under the Japanese. One of APCOL's few fiction titles was Amanda Lohrey's critically acclaimed political novel, The Morality of Gentlemen (1984). David K. Cleaver resigned as Manager in December 1993 and Kitty Knight was Chairman of APCOL when it ceased trading in 1998.

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BOX 1
Minutes of Board Meetings, 1975-1989, including Manager’s Reports and Annual General Meetings:

‘Minutes Book’, being folder, 5 Dec. 1975 - 31 Oct. 1978, with list of Board of Directors, 1975-1993

Volume of minutes, 12 Dec. 1978 - 16 Sep. 1985’, with minutes of meeting of APCOL Working Party, 21 Oct. 1985

Volume of minutes, 26 Oct. 1985 - 28 Oct. 1989

Attendance book, 5 Dec. 1975 - 28 Oct. 1989

BOX 2
Administrative and Financial Records in BOXES 2-7:

Shareholders’ Registers (5) (Indexed), 1975-1986

Shareholders / Members on card file

APCOL common seal and rubber stamps (2)

‘Original Notices’, 1976-1992, including Certificate of Incorporation

‘Legal Documents’, 1976-94, including Rules of APCOL, 1976; and winding-up of APCOL

BOX 3
‘Board’, being folder regarding last AGM, 28 Oct. 1989

‘Board Matters A.G.M. Apologies’, 1988-1989

‘Payments Invoices etc’, 1989-1990, including Auditor’s Report to Members, 18 Sep. 1989

‘Co Op Acts & Regulations’, 1982-1988

‘Ballot Papers Federation of Co-Ops’, no date

‘Active Shareholders Lists’, no date

‘Share Changes Lists’, 198-

‘Shares Changes Correspondence’, 1986-1989

Orders,Overseas Orders, Invoice and Credit books, 1984-1989

Office message books (2), 1985-1988

BOX 4
‘Masters - Office Blanks’

‘APCOL newsletters’, 1976-1986

‘Board Members’, 1977-1996

‘Board Meetings Agenda’, 1976-1988

‘Minutes - Special Board Meetings Only’, 1981-1983

‘Office Copy Minutes’, 1976-1989

‘Manager’s Reports’, 1977-1988

‘Members Correspondence’, 1976-1988, including completed application forms and lists of shareholders

‘Share Applications’, 1975-1983

‘Donated Shares’, 1976-1987

‘APCOL New Members’, 1985-1987

‘Applicants for Jobs’, 1988-1991

BOX 5
‘Office Procedures’, 1980-1992

‘Staff’, 1981-1992

‘Public Lending R[ight] Scheme’, 1977-1988

‘Finance’, 1976-1990

‘Second Back Row Press’, 1986-1990

‘Rules - Returns Registrar of Co-Ops’, 1974-1992

‘Federation of Co-Ops’, 1979-1993

‘Remainders’, 1984-1986

‘Legal Deposits’, 1979-1989

‘Royalty Form Blanks’

‘Authors Contracts Blank’

‘Film Rights’, 1980-1989

BOX 6
‘Australia Council Grants’, 1981-1985

‘ISBN Numbers’, 1986-1988

‘Promotion’, 1983-1984

‘New Era [Bookshop]’, 1983-1986

‘Master Copies of All APCOL Books et al’

‘Aboriginal Arts Board’, 1980-1989

‘Overseas Correspondence Lists’, 1976-1988

‘H & I [Hale & Iremonger]’, 1978-1998

‘Korea - NZ Friendship Society’, 1974-84, including correspondence with Wolf Rosenberg

‘Compton [Associates Pty Ltd]’, 1978-1995

APCOL Lists

‘Flyers’

‘Aborigine Catalogues’

‘Misc Local’, 1987-1989

BOX 7
‘Catalogues O/S [Overseas] UK & Europe’, 1977-1991

APCOL Catalogues

‘Publishers Sales Rep Book Covers of Overseas Books’

‘Overseas Catalogue & Price List - The Americas’, 1977-1987

‘Stocktaking’, 1978-1988

‘Stockwell [Publishers, UK]’, 1977-1979

‘New Zealand’, 1977-1979

BOX 8
‘MSS Received / Returned’, 1979-1992

‘Ritchie Howitt. Corporate Strategies in the Aluminium Industry. Transnational Corporations in North Australia Project. Second Report’, 1981

‘Manuscripts Rejected’ on card file

‘Authors Cards’ on card file

BOX 9
‘Correspondence - Authors’, 1977-1998, with, among others, Stan Arneil, Joan Clark, Max Ellis and Bruce McFarlane, and newscuttings

‘Correspondence - Manuscripts’, 1976-1986, regarding unsolicited manuscripts

‘General Correspondence’, 1975-1998

‘Correspondence - General’, 1978-1991

‘Correspondence’, 1975-1986

‘Reviews’, 1980-1994

‘APCOL Reviews Archives File’, 1976-1981

‘Book Reviews’, 1984-1988

BOX 10
‘Review Copies New Books’, 1983-1988

‘Book Reviews’, 1981-1985

Authors’ file (Arranged alphabetically):

‘Kim Beazley’, 1978-1979, regarding The Politics of Intrusion: The Super Powers and the Indian Ocean (1979) by Kim Beazley and Ian Clark

‘Lloyd Churchward’, 1977-1980, regarding Australia and America 1788-1972: An Alternative History (1979) by L. G. Churchward

‘Churchward Vol II’, 1976-1979, including correspondence with Lloyd Churchward and Eugene Genovese

‘Joan Ely’, 1977-1978, regarding Reality & Rhetoric: An Alternative History of Australian Education (1978) by Joan Ely

‘Coralie [Hinkley]’, 1978-1979, regarding Creativity in Dance (1980) by Coralie Hinkley

BOX 11
‘Humphrey McQueen’, 1976-1986, regarding The Black Swan of Trespass: The Emergence of Modernist Painting in Australia (1979) by Humphrey McQueen

‘Russell Rollason’, 1982 regarding The New International Economic Order and its Implications for Australia (1981) by Russell Rollason

‘Frank Stevens’, 1978-1985, regarding The Politics of Prejudice (1980) by Frank Stevens

‘Rainer Taeni’, 1977-1979, regarding Latent Anxiety: Towards a Holistic Theory of the Human Individual in Contemporary Society (1978)

‘Thomas Tanner’, 1980, no date, regarding Compulsory Citizen Soldiers (1980) by Tom Tanner

‘Ernest Utrecht’, 1976-1987, including correspondence with Ernest Utrecht and Malcolm Caldwell

‘Maslyn Williams’, 1979-1983 regarding The Temple (1982)

Book files (Arranged alphabetically by title):

‘Aborigines and Mining Working File’, 1978-85, regarding Aborigines and Mining Companies in Northern Territory (1983) by Richie Howitt and John Douglas, including correspondence with Chris Sidoti, Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace; and John Douglas

‘Aboriginal Land Rights in N.S.W.’, 1980-1985, regarding Aboriginal Landrights in N.S.W. (1984) by Meredith Wilkie

‘Land Rights: A Christian Perspective’, 1980, regarding Landrights - A Christian Perspective (1980) by Derek Carne

BOX 12
Aboriginal Land Rights Law in the Northern Territory (1989) by Graeme Neate, 1984-1993, including correspondence with Graeme Neate, Carl Harrison-Ford and Garth Nettheim

Baal Belbora (1989) by Geoffrey Blomfield, 1981-1989, including correspondence with Geoffrey Blomfield

‘I Will Not Say The Day Is Done’, 1981-1986, regarding I Will Not Say The Day Is Done (1983) by Hesba Brinsmead Hungerford

‘Karobran’, 1975-1978, regarding Karobran (1978) by Monica Clare

‘MSS Readers’, 1977-1989

‘Manuscript Correspondence’, 1977-1989

BOX 13
‘Metin / Socialism Without Doctrine’, 1975-1979, regarding Socialism Without Doctrine (1977) by Albert Metin, translated by Russel Ward, including correspondence with Russel Ward

‘Morality of Gentlemen’, 1982-1985, regarding The Morality of Gentlemen (1984) by Amanda Lohrey, including correspondence with Amanda Lohrey and Dorothy Green

‘Murderous Revolution’, 1985-1989, regarding The Murderous Revolution: Life and Death in Pol Pot’s Kampuchea (1985) by Martin Stuart-Fox, including correspondence with Martin Stuart-Fox

‘Nimrod Plays’, 1982-1983

‘Obed Raggett’, 1979-1981, regarding The Stories of Obed Raggett (1979) edited by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

‘Politics in a Union’, 1978, regarding Politics in a Union: The Hursey Case (1977) by Tas Bull

BOX 14
‘A Special Kind of Service’, 1985-1989, regarding A Special Kind of Service: The Story of the 2/9th Australian General Hospital, 1940-46 (1986) by Joan Crouch

‘Such Was Life Vol. 3’, 1977-1986, regarding Such Was Life: Select Documents in Australian History. Vol. 3: 1914-1984 (1984), including correspondence with Russel Ward and John Robertson

‘There’s More to Life’, 1979-1984, regarding There’s More to Life (1979) by Koorie Dhoulagarle

‘Time Was Ripe’, 1982-1988, regarding The Time Was Ripe: The Story of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, 1956-69 (1983) by Faith Bandler and Len Fox

‘Traeger Kid’, 1982-84, regarding The Traeger Kid (1983) by Margaret Sharpe, including correspondence with Margaret Sharpe

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