Early Qld Topics - Whimplin Whimsies. Thomas G. Rabbets.
Printed by R.G. Gillies, Brisbane 1919. 302pp. + portrait frontispiece. Memorial edition (published by his wife) of 300 copies, this 293, with her monogram.
From printer to journalist to editor of the Brisbane Courier.
'At the Courier he wrote bi-weekly columns under the name 'St Ebbar'. These columns discussed in prose and verse the topical issues of the day. There are poems about the first world war, daylight saving, the Golden Casket (recently introduced by the Ryan Government to meet the cost of public hospitals), Trades Union, the school syllabus, religion (Rabbets was a staunch Methodist) and the communist threat. Some of his essays include light hearted examinations of topics like the Melbourne Cup, six o'clock closing, the 1919 influenza epidemic, the sale of stale bread and the development of a Brisbane Town Plan.' [website-Old Queensland Poetry]
Maroon cloth boards bumped and lightly marked. Internal hinge cracked at ffep. Preliminaries foxed, contents overall quite clean, binding a little soft. (20x14cm)


Estimate $70-100