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Men Are Pigs
Bueno de Mesquita
Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1927.A tit for tat reply to the book about women, Cats, Not by Louis Wain. The first Australian Edition, published the same year as the Cecil Palmer UK Edition.
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La Ballade de la Geole de Reading
Oscar Wilde; G. Cornelius
Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927.French edition of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated with 15 coloured copper engravings by Jean-Georges Cornelius. One of 225 numbered copies.
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
Mona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People (2 Volumes)
Baldwin Spencer; F. J. Gillen
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927.Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout.
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A Programme For Life
Charles Albert Hall
London: New-Church Press, 1927. -
An Introduction to the Word Explained: A Study of the Means by Which Swedenborg the Scientist and Philosopher Became the Theologian and Revelator
Alfred Acton
Bryn Athyn: Academy of the New Church, 1927.With reference to Emanuel Swedenborg’s The Word of the Old Testament Explained.
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A Summer at the Top o’ the World
William Walter Shaw
Los Angeles: Sixth Avenue Publishing Company, 1927.Chronicling the impressions received by the author during a summer’s vacation spent among the National Parks of the United States and Canada. Locations visited included the Carquinez Strait, the Redwood Highway, Portland, Columbia River Highway, Yellowstone National Park and its geysers, Jackson Hole country including a rodeo there, Buffalo Bill Country, Glacier National Park, Turtle Mountain, the Banff-Windermere Highway and the Okanagan Valley.
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Le Cycle Patibulaire (Premiere + Deuxieme, 2 Volumes)
Georges Eekhoud
Bruxelles: La Renaissance du Livre, 1927.First 2 volume edition.
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Practical Information on the Use and Care of Wire Rope
A. Leschen and Sons Rope Co.
St. Louis: A. Leschen and Sons Rope Co., 1927.Detailed guide to the correct usage of wire rope by American ropery A. Leschen and Sons Rope Co.