General Catalogue. The Union Manufacturing & Agency Company, 299 Elizabeth Street near G.P.O., Melbourne.

A$100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : Alpha Printing Co., 71-73 Hardware St., [c.1930]. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), colour pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with original owner s name, chipped at fore-edge, corners bent; spine ends with short paper splits); pp 160; line-drawn illustrations throughout; ownership inscription in pencil to first page, corners dog-eared, but contents clean; order form loosely inserted. Scarce interwar Melbourne trade catalogue for a firm that offered a huge variety of homewares, games and novelties in fact, a cornucopia of knick-knacks, gadgets, do-it-yourself medical appliances and other things you wouldn t really need. Shops of this type still abound in Melbourne today, of course.

• Binding: Hardcover

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