Life’s wallaby /

by Sydney Partrige

A$375 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Norwood, S.A. : Printed and published by Sydney Partrige, [1908]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), original pictorial wrappers (lightly marked, chips to head and foot of spine); [104] pp, headings printed in red; fore-edges uncut, contents excellent, with the contemporary ownership inscription of D[oris] Egerton Jones, Adelaide-born feminist novelist and playwright. This early Australian private press publication is a collection of short stories by New Zealand-born Australian writer Kate Margaret Partridge (1871-1953). It was issued under the male nom de plume Sydney Partrige , like much of the writer s other literary output, which included two completed novels (one, The Education of Clothilde , written in partnership with Cecil Warren , a.k.a. Leonora Polkinghorne, South Australian feminist, appeared in serialised form), collections of verse, and contributions to various periodicals. Life s Wallaby was published in Adelaide in 1908 by her husband, Hal E. Stone, during the brief period when Stone was establishing his Koolinda Press in Norwood. It is quite likely the striking cover graphic was designed by one or both of the Partridges. Gossip , in a review of the book in the Sydney Stock and Station Journal, 12 May 1908, writes under the misapprehension that the author is a male Good man, Sydney , the reviewer declaims. The review is generally positive, but Gossip lavishes special praise on one story in particular The Metempsychosis of John Wedderburn which is commended a

• Binding: Hardcover

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.