Roach Eva (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Adelaide, The Hassell Press [for the Author, 1935]. Octavo, 16 pages with 6 illustrations. Saddle-stapled overlapping textured wrappers with a reproduction of the illustration on page 9 tipped in on the front cover; essentially a fine copy. Loosely inserted is a small slip of paper with the typed message 'All Souls' Tide'; this was also present in the only other copy of this booklet we have seen. The Adelaide newspaper 'The Advertiser' has a comprehensive account of the work on 10 January 1936, in an article headed 'Pioneer Memories Told In Rhyme'. 'Memories of pioneer personalities, told in rhyme and rhythm, have been revived by Miss Eva Roach, under the nom de plume of "Cousin Silvia," in an attractively illustrated booklet, "Homing." In nine short poems Miss Roach has told of some of the men and women who came from England nearly a century ago; of Grandpa Lovegrove, who "was alive in eighteen hundred and thirty-five," and the story of the map in Grannie's house introduced by a reproduction of a quaint cottage in Berkshire, where Ann Nightingale and all her ancestors and their descendants have lived since 1560, and Ann worked the map as "a child of 10 when George III ruled Englishmen." Pleasant Cottage at Penwortham revives memories of "Great Grandpa Lee and Horrocks the Explorer," while a picture of the last house at Land's End, Cornwall, illustrates the poem on the Cornishmen's lucky find "at Burra in 1845." Other short poems introduce the Duke of Edinburgh's visit in 1867, and Nilpena, the home of Grandpa Lee'.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, Harman & Jacka, Printers, [1934]. Octavo, [38] pages (last blank) with numerous line illustrations. Overlapping raffia-bound printed wrappers with a colour plate mounted on the front cover; wrappers a little creased with a short closed split to the foot of the spine; a very good copy (internally fine). 'The name "Boolee" and the ideas in "Picaninny" are taken from Australian Legends collected by Mrs. Percival Stow (Kate Langloh Parker)' (acknowledgments) - and the preface is by Catherine Stow. Muir 6407.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, Harman & Jacka, Printers, [1934]. Octavo, [38] pages (last blank) with numerous line illustrations. Overlapping raffia-bound printed wrappers with a colour plate mounted on the front cover; wrappers a little creased with a short closed split to the head of the spine; a very good copy (internally fine). 'The name "Boolee" and the ideas in "Picaninny" are taken from Australian Legends collected by Mrs. Percival Stow (Kate Langloh Parker)' (acknowledgments) - and the preface is by Catherine Stow. Muir 6407.