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Issue Details: First known date: 1953... 1953 Gimme the Boats
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Notes

  • Author's note (frontmatter, Big Bill the Bastard (1976)): Way back in 1953 a book of mine called Gimme the Boats was published in London. Since then it has been hard-covered by three different publishers, running to a total of eleven editions. Horwitz (Australia) soft-covered it to the tune of five editions, also Corgi (England), four editions. Last year a London publisher brought out a Library Edition, and at time of writing Horwitz have it in the slips again preparing for another of their excellently presented soft-cover printings. All this adds up to a viable selling life of twenty-two years; which would seem to indicate that it is better to make a book than, say, a pair of pantyhose. Sometimes.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Serialised by: The Sunday Herald 1989 newspaper (61 issues)
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Published in serialised format in the Sydney Sunday Herald in 1953. Issue details unknown.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Constable ,
      1953 .
      Extent: 255p.
      Reprinted: 1954 , 1955 , 1956
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Transworld ,
      1955 .
      Extent: 237p.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Horwitz , 1958 .
      Extent: 226p.
      Reprinted: 1960 , 1962
      Series: Name Author Horwitz (publisher), series - publisher novel adventure crime detective romance war literature Number in series: 2
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Corgi Books ,
      1969 .
      Extent: 188p.
      ISBN: 055208221X
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Elmfield Press ,
      1974 .
      Extent: 255p.
      ISBN: 0705700356

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Works about this Work

J.E. Macdonnell 1953 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 July vol. 74 no. 3831 1953; (p. 2)

— Review of Gimme the Boats J. E. Macdonnell , 1953 single work novel
An Innocent in the Studio J. E. Macdonnell , 1953 single work prose
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 August vol. 74 no. 3835 1953; (p. 4)
J.E. Macdonnell 1953 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 July vol. 74 no. 3831 1953; (p. 2)

— Review of Gimme the Boats J. E. Macdonnell , 1953 single work novel
An Innocent in the Studio J. E. Macdonnell , 1953 single work prose
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 August vol. 74 no. 3835 1953; (p. 4)
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