Sowden Will (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed in pencil by the author on back of map. frontispiece: " Edward Harding With the sincere & grateful ___ of the author Will J. Sowden July 29/18." xii, 306 pp plus lists of books about Australia. Slight shelf wear. Green gilt lettered cloth. Inscribed by Author(s).

xii+306+[2]pp. 8vo. Original grey wrappers, chipped with a repair, a very good copy. Popular edition., scarce thus.

xii+306pp. 8vo. Original cloth, extremities lightly bumped and worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. Octavo, xii, 306, [2] (publisher's advertisements) pages. Cloth; an excellent copy. 'This book contains newspaper reports, reproduced without elaboration, of addresses uttered by the white native of Australia whose name is printed on the title page' (author's introductory 'explanatory'). Sir William John Sowden (1858-1943), journalist and newspaper editor, was associated with the major daily, the 'South Australian Register', for decades. 'Promoted chief leader-writer and associate editor in 1892, Sowden was acting editor in 1897 and editor from 1899 to 1922. In this capacity he exerted strong influence on public opinion. Politically Sowden was a Liberal, a free trader and an "avowed anti-Socialist"; while never joining any party, he was consistently anti-Labor. He supported Federation, the South African War, compulsory military training, conscription, state-rights, the unreformed Legislative Council and the formation of the Liberal Union in 1910. "Truth"'s description of Sowden's "Register" as "the official organ of the Tory party" was barely an exaggeration' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

Couverture rigide. Livre en anglais. Percaline de l'éditeur. 307 pages. Légèrement défraîchi. Voyages, Géographie : Divers. Livre.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. Octavo, xii, 306, [2] (publisher's advertisements) pages with a map. Cloth a little flecked; spine a little darkened; an excellent copy. Presentation copy. Inscribed, dated (Adelaide, 28 October 1912) and signed by the author to Evan Kyffin Thomas at The Register Office, Adelaide. Sowden has over-written the first part of his dedication; 'from his Distinguished Co-Worker & Friend'. 'This book contains newspaper reports, reproduced without elaboration, of addresses uttered by the white native of Australia whose name is printed on the title page' (author's introductory 'explanatory'). Sir William John Sowden (1858-1943), journalist and newspaper editor, was associated with the major daily, the 'South Australian Register', for decades. 'Promoted chief leader-writer and associate editor in 1892, Sowden was acting editor in 1897 and editor from 1899 to 1922. In this capacity he exerted strong influence on public opinion. Politically Sowden was a Liberal, a free trader and an "avowed anti-Socialist"; while never joining any party, he was consistently anti-Labor. He supported Federation, the South African War, compulsory military training, conscription, state-rights, the unreformed Legislative Council and the formation of the Liberal Union in 1910. "Truth"'s description of Sowden's "Register" as "the official organ of the Tory party" was barely an exaggeration' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Signed.