Book, F.W. Chesire Ltd, Bumping into Friends by Alan Marshall, illustrated by Vane Lindsay published by F.W. Cheshire, 1950

Historical information

From the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English:
[Alan Marshall] contributed comic sketches to newspapers and magazines, collected in "Pull Down the Blind (1949) and "Bumping Into Friends" (1950)

The Argus Sat 30 Sep 1950: "It consists of a hundred or so vignettes, each consisting of a little ironical story about the bores and other trivia that infest modern life.."

Significance

One of many titles written by local author Alan Marshall who resided in Eltham from 1955 till his death in 1984.

Physical description

Hard Back bound in orange bookcloth

References

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