Vintage 1937 EVERLASTING HURRICANE Reginald Walter Coulter AUSTRALIA CARTOONIST

RARE, Vintage…

1937

‘EVERLASTING HURRICANE’

by Reginald Walter Coulter (AUSTRALIAN ARTIST, AUTHOR, CARTOONIST)

“Everlasting Hurricane: A Saga Of The Western Pacific”

“From the 1920s to the late 1950s Coulter was a regular Bulletin contributor, signing his cartoons, caricatures and illustrations 'R.W. Coulter’. The Mitchell Library [ML] Bulletin collection has 120 original drawings and 26 caricatures by Coulter, including a caricature of the art critic and historian William Moore. Examples of his cartoons include “Cripes, Mum, she could milk a few cows!” c.1926 – a bush couple contemplating an Indian 8-arm goddess – and 'The Descent of Man’, with the same couple looking at a painting of a centaur.

Reg. Coulter also wrote humorous short stories that were published in the Bulletin . His first novel, Everlasting Hurricane: a saga of the western Pacific , was run in the Sydney Morning Herald as a serial then published by Angus & Robertson in 1937 ('by R. Walter Coulter’). Date of death unknown, but in about 1988 his widow, Eve Coulter, was aged 90 and living in 'a Reg-built stone fairyland cottage perched on a Berowra Waters hilltop’ when David Swain visited her and she gave him some cartoons for the National Museum of Australia.”

Pressed flower and grass in tinfoil between pages 122 and 123.

Library stamps with days and years on inner front cover page.

243 pages. Measures 7 3/8” x 5 1/4”

CONDITION:

Excellent vintage, preowned condition. Folds and creases on covers and binding. Pages are dirty at edges but in great condition otherwise. Folds at some page corners. Slight discoloration from age. See photos for details.

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