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Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney
Sydney
London
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Angus and Robertson
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1952
Z99470
1952
single work
autobiography
The memoirs of James Tyrrell (1875-1961) - famous bookman, bookseller and owner of several bookshops in Sydney during the late 19th and early 20th centuries - include his boyhood reminiscences of Sydney and his later encounters and experiences in Sydney's cultural and literary circles. He remembers the many 'booksfellows of all sorts' that he had the privilege 'to know or to see in one of my succession of shops or at Angus and Robertson' where he began his career (p.1). Among the many literary identities, illustrators, publishers, collectors, bibliophiles, politicians and public figures he got to know through his work were numerous significant Australian writers and artists, and his book is full of delightful anecdotes and interesting insights into Sydney's cultural, literary, political and social life at the time. The books is richly illustrated with old photos, facsimiles, portraits, cartoons, and a 'Reference Plan of City Streets, Sydney, 1888', reproduced from the Illustrated Sydney News. It also includes several poems by Australian writers celebrating Tyrrell's bookshop .
Sydney
London
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Angus and Robertson
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1952
pg.
183-184
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A Fantasy of Man : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1901-1922
Leonard Cronin
(editor),
Sydney
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Lansdowne
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1984
Z378760
1984
selected work
poetry
short story
autobiography
correspondence
humour
Sydney
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Lansdowne
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1984
pg.
763
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