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Arcadian Adelaide 1905
190522362<p>Adelaide: Modern Printing Company 1905. First Edition 6th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Gloriously vindictive barbs directed at the Adelaide Establishment. Sixth Edition Modern Printing Company Adelaide 1905; 40 pages frontispiece portrait; limp red wrappers staplebound black titling to front bumped at corners with creasing to covers small triangle at bottom corner almost detached damp-affected along spine patch of red offset from covers onto title page a very good copy. The release of "Arcadian Adelaide" caused a sensation amongst the Adelaide Establishment. Such was its immediate impact that it ran to ten editions this being the Sixth & instigated a counter-publication "A Scratch From An Adelaide Cat" plus Thistle's additional riposte "The Arcadians". all before the end of 1905!! Copies of this original pamphlet are extremely scarce due to its ephemeral construction. Scottish actress Thistle Anderson's firecracker of a polemic against her adopted hometown of Adelaide. <br /><br /></p> Modern Printing Company paperback
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