Angry Penguins. 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley

Edited by Max Harris and John Reed. Melbourne: Reed & Harris, 1944. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Sidney Nolan (lightly foxed, ink stain to upper wrapper extending to title page, tape residue to spine and fore edge of upper wrapper, water stain to lower margin), pp. 108, a good copy of a rare publication.

Issue 6. The famous Ern Malley issue, of which 900 copies were printed. An Australian literary icon. Rare.

In addition to the legendary poems by ‘Ern Malley’ this issue also includes contributions by Albert Tucker, Cedric Flower, Peter Cowan, Gordon Thomson, Neil Douglas, Dal Stivens, Bernard Smith, Alister Kershaw, John Tallis, Colin Thiele, Barrie Reid, Elizabeth Galloway, Frank Kellaway, Harry Roskolenko, Geoffrey Dutton, John Reed, an illustrated article on Australian Aboriginal Art by Leonard Adam, candid photographs of Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Eric Schimmer, Danila Vassilieff, Joy Hester, Max Harris, Sunday Reed, John Reed, Ivor P. Francis,