The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
Thursday, 16 November - Thursday, 14 December 2023
A Broadsheet of The Pegasus Press Christchurch N.Z. Writers Conference 10 May 1951
Estimate $25 - $50
Realised: $55 plus premium
Lot Details
Single sheet 355 x 213mm with thirty six brief witty quotes attributed to attendees – Glover: ‘They found it kauri and left it Pinex’; Baxter: a 4-line poem on the 1951 strike; Sargeson on the French translation of ‘pig islander’ as ‘insular brute’… This copy is not letterpress and appears to be produced by an early method of photocopying.
