Description

• Sixth Edition [Modern Printing Company, Adelaide, 1905]; 40 pages + frontispiece portrait; limp red wrappers, staplebound, black titling to front, bumped at corners with creasing to covers, small triangle at bottom corner almost detached, damp-affected along spine, patch of red offset from covers onto title page, a very good copy
• The release of Arcadian Adelaide caused a sensation amongst the Adelaide Establishment. Such was its immediate impact that it ran to ten editions [this being the Sixth] & instigated a counter-publication [A Scratch From An Adelaide Cat] plus Thistle’s additional riposte The Arcadians… all before the end of 1905!!
• Copies of this original pamphlet are extremely scarce due to its ephemeral construction
• Scottish actress Thistle Anderson’s firecracker of a polemic against her adopted hometown of Adelaide…