A GIFT BOOK
LADY NEWALL’S NEW ZEALAND GIFT BOOK. Published by P.E.N. (New Zealand Centre), Wellington. Ordinary edition, 12/6. Limited edition, signed, one guinea. ALL gift books have the same purpose, and the same pre-publication story. The editors collect as much material as they can get for nothing, sift it out, but retain enough to make a genuine bargain for any type of purchaser. That is what happened in this case. All the best living writers in New Zealand contributed-Frank Sargeson, M. H. Holcroft, Eileen Duggan, F. Sinclaire, Ngaio Marsh, Isobel Andrews, Arnold Wall, and one or two others. A levy was made on the dead-Jessie Mackay, Robin Hyde, James Cowan. Our composer contributed a page of music: Douglas Lilburn. Art printers (Harry Tombs and Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie) added reproductions in colour of good pictures. One of our best landscape men gave a collection of photographs. Low and Minhinnick sent cartoons. Peter (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) McIntyre gave war paintings, and Harry Rountree a comically beautiful drawing. Edgar Stead provided natural history (beautifully illustrated), G. H. Scholefield and Johannes Andersen some Maori history. And so, in all these ways, there was material enough to fill 180 quarto pages, which the __ booksellers undertook to sell without profit. They will, we are sure, sell every volume, since each at to-day’s price is worth at least 25/-. And only an odd contributor in all that company-five or six perhaps in 50-will wonder why, if he is so acceptable in a gift book, he has gathered such a collection of rejection skips in the open market.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 246, 10 March 1944, Page 20
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266A GIFT BOOK New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 246, 10 March 1944, Page 20
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