The Torch. Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers’ College. Vol. XIX, December, 1939. (Extensively signed copy)

A$250 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1939. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (minor edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and silver; pp 44, viii; illustrated with numerous reproductions of linocuts by student artists and photographic plates; this copy is that of Vin Mansell, General Secretary of the Students Council in 1939, and is extensively signed throughout by literary contributors including Jim Sugg (with a note by Mansell to the effect that he died in an RAAF crash in Northern Australia in 1943), Boyce Worthley, H. Braham, M. L. Strange and Ralph Skitch; there are also signed photographic portraits of Pat Whitford and Bryan Rofe, a double-page with headshots of Who s Who in College, 1939 which is signed by everyone pictured (except Mansell, of course), and a single page headed Autographs which contains the signatures of close to 50 students; very clean throughout, a significant association copy. One of Jeffrey Smart s earliest published works was the linocut Evening which was included in the December, 1941 issue of The Torch . Unfortunately none of the linocuts in the December, 1939 issue is signed and the only one with an artist s name printed beneath is the frontispiece view of the college by Milton Hunkin.

• Binding: Hardcover

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