Bohemia (New Series) The Official Organ of the Bread and Cheese Club, Melbourne.

Author: 
The Bread and Cheese Club, Melbourne, Australia [Joseph P. Quaine (d.1970), bookseller; Judge Alfred William Foster (1886-1962)]
Publication details: 
No. 5. Melbourne, 1st November, 1945. [Printed by J. Roy Stevens. Mebourne.]
£35.00
SKU: 8373

4to, 4 pp. Bifolium. Complete issue, paginated 17-20. Good, on aged paper. The first page announces J. D. Corbett ('Writer of "Canberra Commentary" in "The Argus") as guest speaker ('And he's sure to be good'). The first of two articles on the second page is the report of a speech by 'His Honor Judge Foster'. The second article, under the heading 'A Blood and Thunder Merchant', is an interview, with small photograph, with 'the Sanguinary-minded Fellow J. P. Quaine, the Bookaneer': 'it is just on 30 years since this gory Fellow burst into being as a bookseller like a bolt from the blue [...] best known in recent years as a collector of "skulps," "Shilling Shockers" and "Penny Bloods," [...]'. Among the other articles is a report, with small photograph, of the recent activities of Wing Commander S. C. George. The Bread and Cheese Club was formed in Melbourne in 1938. Dedicated to 'Mateship, Art and Letters', it was active in promoting Australian writers, publishing around forty books. The Club's first 'Knight Grand Cheese' was the Melbourne book-collector J.K. Moir.