The Roving Editors by Sowden, W. J - 1919

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1919.. 8vo; pp. iv, 239; frontispiece; 26 b/w illustrations, 1 map; original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on front and spine; spine bumped and faded, pages browned, front and back endpaper damaged, corner of front free endpaper torn off, a good copy. Inscribed by the author.

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., n.d. [c. 1918]. . First Edition; 8vo; pp. iv, 239; b/w frontispiece, 26 f/p illustrations, 1 map, original dark green cloth, title lettered in gilt on front and spine, spine bumped and faded, endpapers browned, a good copy. Inscribed by the author.

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co.,1919. . 8vo; pp. iv, 240; b/w frontispiece, numerous pages of b/w illustrations, 1 map, original printed stapled wrappers, some ink splashed to spine and bottom left corner front wrapper, some discolouration to spine and edges of wrapper; otherwise a very good copy. Pencil owners signature on first page. Map shows positions hundreds British ships sunk by German submarines. Illustrations include a Battery of 18 pounders in Action, Cathedral at Ypres, Boy Scouts in London, Handley Page Biplane Aeroplane plane capable of carrying 28 men, First and Second Battleship Squadrons of Super Dread Noughts, Anzacs arriving for service at Central Hall Westminster. and more. Wonderful; article on Queen Mary's Auxiliary Hospital and their work with amputees and helping the wounded return to normal life.

(Adelaide: Printed and Published by W.K. Thomas and Co.: 1919) First Edition. Cloth pp. vi and iv, 239. Illustrated. Sowden was South Australian Representative on the Delegation of Australian Editors invited by the British Government to witness the War Operations on Land and Sea during the latter half of the year 1918. First Edition. The name of an Institute and neat cancellation at head of free front endpaper otherwise very good copy.

Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1919. Octavo, [iv], iv, 239 pages plus 28 full-page plates. Gilt-lettered pebble-grain cloth lightly flecked; top edge foxed; endpapers offset; contemporary ownership details; an excellent copy with the pictorial dustwrapper torn with some loss. The author, Sir William Sowden, editor of the Adelaide 'Register', was South Australian representative on the delegation of Australian editors invited by the British Government to witness the war operations on land and sea during the latter half of 1918. He was one of about a dozen Australian journalists invited to tour the battlefields of Europe at the behest of Lord Beaverbrook and his new Ministry of Information. Sowden was perhaps best known for his satirical column of the 1880s 'Echoes from the Smoking Room', and his cheerful bonhomie and enthusiasms are ever-present here. The account is particularly interesting because of the… Read More