Sub-series 4: Angus & Robertson book jackets, ca. 1950-1964

PXD 359/vols. 1-2

sub-series

ca. 1950-1964

1336736

174 book covers (plus duplicates) - paper

The series comprises 174 book jackets, many with duplicates, for a selection of Angus & Robertson books published in the 1950s and 1960s. Where known, the artist is noted after the book title, however for most jackets the design is not attributed.

Volume 1
Allsopp, F. J. & Hunt, O. W.: The spirit of man
Anderson, Ethel: Little ghosts
Astley, Thea: A descant for gossips
Australian Institute of Political Science: Trade unions in Australia
Ausubel, David P.: The fern and the tiki
Bartlett, Evelyn: Dumper and the circus
Belschner, H. G.: Sheep management and diseases
Bentley, John: The devil behind them
Bhattacharya, Bhabani: Music for Mohini (artist B. S. Biro)
Bisset, James, Sir: Tramps and ladies
Black, Roman: Old and new Australian Aboriginal art
Blainey, Geoffrey: Mines in the spinifex
Bloomfield, John: Know-how in the surf
Buchholzer, John: The Horn of Africa
Buckley, Vincent: Australian poetry 1958
Bunce, Sydney: Take this life
Burns, Robert: Mr Brain knows best (artist Grant Roberts)
Cameron, Hector: Little yellow shoes
Campbell, David: Evening under lamplight
Carney, Clive: International interiors and design
Chisholm, A. H.: The romance of the lyrebird
Chisholm, A. R. & Quinn, J. J.: The verse of Christopher Brennan
Clark, Manning: Meeting Soviet man
Clarke, Marjorie: Sawdust and spangles
Clune, Frank: Bound for Botany Bay; Journey to Canberra; Journey to Kosciusko; Murders on Maunga-Tapu; Flight to Formosa
Collins, Dale: Anzac adventure
Coppleson, V. M.: Shark attack
Corrigan, Mark: Girl from Moscow; Lady from Tokyo; Singapore downbeat
Cowan, Peter: Summer
Cox, Helen: The food, flowers and wine cookbook
Craig, Alexander: The living sky
Cumpston, J. H. L.: The inland sea and the great river
Darling, Louis: Kangaroos and other animals with pockets
Davison, Frank Dalby: Children of the dark people; The road to yesterday
Dean, Beth & Carell, Victor: Softly, wild drums
Dodson, Kenneth: Hector the stowaway dog (artist Peter Spier)
Drake-Brockman, H.: West coast stories
Drummond, D. H.: A university is born
Du Cros, Edward: Skin diving in Australia
Dulhunty, Beryl: Better English in banking
Edwards, S. H.: Shooting and shooting bushcraft
Eton, Peter & Leasor, James: Conspiracy of silence
Ewers, J. K.: With the sun on my back
Fairfax, John: Historic roads round Sydney
Fellowes-Gordon, Ian: Lunch on the company
Fenner, Ruth: The story house (artist Elisabeth MacIntyre)
Foreman, Robert L.: The hot half hour (artist Sudney Butchkes)
Foster, J. B.: Ophthalmic nursing
Fowler, Helen: Hold a bright mirror; The refugee
Fysh, Hudson: Taming the north
Gibbs, Philip: The riddle of a changing world
Greenwood, Gordon: The modern world, volume 1
Gresham, W. R.: How top salesmen sell in Australia
Griffin, Gwyn: Sons of God
Groom, Arthur: Wealth in the wilderness; I saw a strange land
Hannan, A. J.: The life of Chief Justice Way
Harrison, Richmond E.: Handbook of trees and shrubs for the Southern Hemisphere
Hart-Smith, W.: Poems of discovery
Haylen, Lesley: Chinese journey
Haywood, E. V.: Six years in support
Hemphill, Rosemary: Fragrance and flavour; Spice and savour
Herbert, Xavier: Seven emus
Higham, Charles: The earthbound and other poems
Hill, Ernestine: My love must wait (artist Elizabeth Durack)
Hill, Napoleon: Think and grow rich
Hoinville, Fred: Halfway to heaven
Hope, A. D.: Australian poetry 1960
Hurley, Frank: Australia a camera study
Idriess, Ion L.: Lasseter’s last ride; Flynn of the inland; Back o’ Cairns; Our Stone Age mystery; The wild north; Fortunes in minerals including uranium; The tin scratchers
Irwin, William Wallace: Gambols in gastronomy
Kades, Hans: San Salvatore
Keesing, Nancy: Australian poetry 1959
Kelley, R. B.: Principles and methods of animal breeding; Native and adapted cattle
Lattimore, Eleanor Frances: The journey of Ching Lai; Bells for a Chinese donkey (artist for both E. F. Lattimore)
Lawson, Henry: Prose works of Henry Lawson; Fifteen stories
Lawson, Will: When Cobb & Co. was king
Lear, Melva: Dangerous holiday
Lindsay, Norman: The magic pudding (artist Norman Lindsay)
Mackaness, George: The life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh

Volume 2
Mackaness, Joan S. & Mackaness, George: The wide brown land
Mann, Cecil (ed.): The stories of Henry Lawson, first series; The stories of Henry Lawson, second series
Mansfield, Michael: I submit to no man (artist Grant Roberts)
Martin, Des: Australia astride
McAuley, James: Captain Quiros; The end of modernity
McCann, F. B.: Medicine man
McFadyen, Ella: The big book of Pegmen tales
McKie, Ronald: The heroes
McMullin, Alister, Sir: An introduction to the Australian Federal Parliament
Meillon, Claire: The new surf club
Metcalfe, John: Subject classifying and indexing of libraries and literature
Molnar, George: Insubstantial pageant
Montgomery, L. M.: Anne of Green Gables; Anne of Ingleside; Further chronicles of Avonlea
Moore, T. Inglis: From the ballads to Brennan
Morse, Clive: The guest years of my life
Moyes, A. G.: Australian cricket; Benaud & Co.
Mudie, Ian: The blue crane
Murtagh, James G: Australia, the Catholic chapter
Murray, Arthur: How to become a good dancer
Newton, Albert: The fundamentals of lawn bowls
Niland, Darcy: The big smoke
Noall, William: The Australian one club system
O’Connor, Elizabeth: The Irishman
Odell, Gill: Mr Ozzle of Withery Wood
O’Grady, Frank: The sun breaks through; No boundary fence
Osman, Neile: Modern English
Palmer, Vance: The big fellow
Park, Ruth: The muddle-headed wombat; The witch’s thorn; The harp in the south
Peebles, Ian: The fight for the ashes 1958-1958
Pinney, Peter: Ride the volcano
Porter, Eleanor H.: Pollyanna
Price, A. Grenfell: The humanities in Australia
Rathbone, Josephine L.: Teach yourself to relax
Rees, Coralie & Leslie: Coasts of Cape York
Rolleston, Juliet: Pink is for girls
Rose, Lyndon: Country of the dead
Rowbotham, David: Inland; The man in the jungle
Rowley, C. D.: The lotus and the dynamo
Rudd, Steele: On our selection, and Our new selection (adapted from illustrations by Norman and Lionel Lindsay); Sandy’s selection, and Back at our selection
Ryan, Paul W. S.: Engineering administration
Ryan, Peter: Fear drive my feet
Simpson, Colin: Take me to Russia; Wake up in Europe
Smith, P. R. (ed.): On the air
Southall, Ivan: Simon Black takes over; Softly tread the brave
Spencer, A. H.: The hill of content
Spencer, Margaret: Doctor’s wife in New Guinea
Stead, David G.: Sharks and rays of Australian seas
Stewart, Douglas & Keesing, Nancy: The Pacific book of bush ballads
Stivens, Dal: Jimmy Brockett
Stokes, E. H.: The jubilee book of the Sydney Hospital Clinical School
Stone, W. Clement: The success system that never fails
Stow, Randolph: Australian poetry 1964
Thomas, A. S.: Better roses
Villiers, Alan: Whalers of the midnight sun
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris: The music of division
Warner, Denis: The last Confucian
Webb, Frances: The ghost of the cock
Wells, Ann E.: Tales from Arnhem Land (artist Margaret Paice); Skies of Arnhem Land
Williamson, H. D.: Sammy Anderson, commercial traveller
Wright, Richard: The long dream
Wrightson, Patricia: The rocks of honey
Yelland, H. L. and others: A handbook of literary terms
Zechlin, Ruth: Book of crafts

The book jackets are housed in two volumes, arranged alphabetically by author name

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder