Wooden hookers : epics of the sea history of Australia / by C. Bede Maxwell
- Bib ID:
- 2230564
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Maxwell, C. Bede, 1901-, author
- Description:
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- Sydney : Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1940
- viii, 280 pages ; 20 cm
- Notes:
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- Dedicated to Dame Mary Gilmore, D.B.E.
- National Library of Australia's Whelan 658 copy includes a typescript letter dated 28 December 1940 from Maxwell to Whelan -- "...Hoping that what I have painfully inserted (with a borrowed fountain pen filled with very bad ink) on the fly-leaf will serve your purposes ..."; and is inscribed and signed by the author on the fly-leaf -- "Perhaps the most surprising thing about this book - to me - is that I should have written it at all! After a lifetime spent so far in a blameless domesticity, and never out of sight of the coastline of N.S.W. ...".
- National Library of Australia's SR 232 copy inscribed in ink by dedicatee to her husband: "W.A. Gilmore - To Dad, to wish him Christmas wishes & new year greetings. From his affectionate wife - Mary Gilmore Sydney 8.12.40".
- Library's FERG and JAF copies bear the Ferguson Collection bookplate.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2071 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2001
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1940
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