QUADRANT: An Australian Quarterly Review. Volume 1, Number 1. Summer 1956-7
by (Cook, Captain James; de la Mare, Walter; et al). McCauley, James; editor
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(Sydney, Australia: H. R. Krygier), (1956).. (1956).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream & vermilion wrappers. The wraps are bumped & lightly chipped with the tail of the spine torn. There is light soiling & staining to the rear wrap & the overlapping edges are creased. 100 pages. A few black-and-white illustrations & pictorial ads. The front wrap is detached from the text block along the spine. There is a distributor's stamp at the foot of the title page. The top page corners are slightly bumped. Good <p>Quadrant is an Australian literary and cultural journal publishing poetry and short stories and essays on politics, history, universities and the arts. The journal was founded in 1956 by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been a social- democratic activist in Europe and by James McCauley, a Catholic poet. The publication was a project of the Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom, the Australian branch of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti-Communist advocacy group funded by the CIA.<p>Among the contents of this first issue of Quadrant are the articles "James Cook, Seaman" by Alan Villiers, "Walter de la Mare" by Rosemary Dobson, "Good Manners in Street Architecture" by George Molnar and "The Communist Conspiracy in Asia" by Denis Warner.
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- Title
- QUADRANT: An Australian Quarterly Review. Volume 1, Number 1. Summer 1956-7
- Author
- (Cook, Captain James; de la Mare, Walter; et al). McCauley, James; editor
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- (Sydney, Australia: H. R. Krygier), (1956).
- Date Published
- (1956).
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; POETRY; CULTURE; POLITICS; EXPLORATION; PERIODICAL; QUADRANT; AUSTRALIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW; RICHARD KRYGIER, FOUNDER; JAMES MCCAULEY, EDITOR; EXPLORER; JAMES COOK; WALTER DE LA MARE; STREET ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY IN ASIA.
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