Lloyd Preece (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light age marks to page ends. Owner message to end paper. DJ taped to boards and has some edge wear, soiling marks and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1942. Octavo, 253 pages with 2 maps (one double-page) plus 24 plates and rear endpaper maps. Cloth lightly bumped; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little marked, creased and chipped. John Lloyd Preece (1895-1969), one of the sons of the noted Adelaide bookseller and publisher F.W. Preece, was himself an influential bookseller, publisher and proprietor of Preece's Gallery. He 'studied English at the University of Adelaide . In 1926 he visited Italy with Lionel Lindsay. Three years later he launched "Desiderata", an elegant and stylishly illustrated literary magazine which appeared for ten years and brought together notable Australian and overseas contributors. At a time of general philistinism [it] contained enthusiastic notices of modern art and literature: in 1939 there were two favourable reviews of Patrick White's first novel, "Happy Valley". In 1934-40 John Preece ran a branch of F.W. Preece & Sons Ltd in Victoria Arcade, Sydney. As "Lloyd Rhys" he wrote three books, about New Guinea and about small ships in World War II, reflecting his travels and his temporary civilian work for the Defence Department at Garden Island. In 1946 he returned to Adelaide' and the family firm, not retiring until 1957 ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). The small paper label of 'F.W. Preece Ltd. Booksellers, Adelaide' is mounted at the foot of the front pastedown.