[MILITARY] We were the rats

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Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1944. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth over boards (canted), in the rare illustrated dust jacket by Frank Hodgkinson (defective, splits and tears repaired with old brown paper), 275 pp; foreword by Norman Lindsay; contents clean and sound. Author and journalist Lawson Glassop served in the Middle East between 1940-1943, during which time he worked in Cairo as an editor on the Australian army newspaper, the AIF News. His novel We were the rats is based around the experience of Australian soldiers at the siege of Tobruk in 1941. Glassop collaborated with two of Australia's major artistic talents of the time, Frank Hodgkinson and Norman Lindsay, in producing his book, which was published in Sydney in late 1944 while the war in Europe and the Pacific still raged. He arranged for his friend, Sydney artist Frank Hodgkinson (1919-2001) to design the dramatic image that adorns the dust jacket. Hodgkinson had enlisted in the AIF at the outbreak of World War II and had served as an official war artist in the Middle East - with Glassop - and in North Africa, New Guinea and Borneo. The book also has an interesting connection with Australia's most popular artist of the period, Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), who provided the foreword. During the war prints of Norman Lindsay's risque works were popular morale boosters among Australian troops - including the now-legendary Rats of Tobruk. Lindsay, like Hodgkinson, was a personal friend of Glassop. Although the first edition sold reasonably well, all was not plain sailing for Glassop. From the ADB: "On 24 April 1946 Glassop found himself famous when a Sydney magistrate held that certain passages inWe Were the Ratswere obscene and imposed a £10 fine on the publishers, Angus & Robertson Ltd. During the proceedings the chief police witness, Sergeant Roy Munro, had testified that the word 'bloody' in the text was offensive to him. On 13 June Judge Studdert dismissed an appeal, ruling that thirty-one pages of the book were 'legally obscene' and describing passages in chapter 31 as 'just plain filth'.".

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[MILITARY] We were the rats
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GLASSOP, Lawson (1913-1966)
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Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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Douglas Stewart Fine Books is an antiquarian bookseller based in Melbourne, Australia. Our showroom is in High Street, Armadale, a precinct famous for its antique dealers, art galleries and bookshops. We buy and sell books both locally and around the world, working closely with clients to understand their collecting priorities and to source appropriate material. Our clients include libraries, galleries, museums, private collectors and fellow members of the trade. Douglas Stewart is a member of the major international trade associations, and his business is conducted according to their high ethical standards. For many years he has been a Board member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and is currently its President; he is also a Mentor for the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Douglas Stewart Fine Books sells rare books across all fields, but our strengths are in travel and exploration – particularly of Australia and the Pacific – and Australian art. In addition, we deal in all types of heritage material, including photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, maps and globes, and fine art. Each month we issue a new online catalogue of recent acquisitions; we recommend that you join our email list so you can be among the first to see what’s available. Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding any works you see online – we are always happy to assist with your enquiries. We are also keen to buy rare and interesting books, photographs and ephemera, from important single items to entire libraries or collections. You are welcome to contact us if you have something to sell which you think may be of interest to us. We love meeting new people and welcoming visitors to our shop (open Monday to Saturday), but if you can't make it to Melbourne you can find probably find us at one of the major fairs in London, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Toronto, San Francisco, Boston, Hong Kong or Sydney - all places we have exhibited in since 2009. Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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