A Guide to the Manuscripts of Arthur Upfield The Lake Frome monster [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1964?] 119, [6] leaves : map ; 26 cm. Typescript ; additional holograph amendments and map by the. In spring-back binder (35 cm.), inscribed "The property of Arthur W. Upfield Unfinished at Upfield's death; completed and revised by J.L. Price and Dorothy Strange, using Upfield's notes. Published in London by Heinemann (1966) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f LAKE/MS The Lake Frome monster [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1964?] 56, [3] leaves : map ; 26-34 cm. ; holograph map by the. Transcript of the quarto typescript (without the final word, which was the only word on leaf 119) and of the holograph notes accompanying it. Unfinished at Upfield's death; completed and revised by J.L. Price and Dorothy Strange, using Upfield's notes. Published in London by Heinemann (1966) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f LAKE/MS/Transcript UNIF Madman's Bend. A ship for the crows [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1962?] 260 leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; additional holograph amendments by the. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1963) under title: The body at Madman's Bend and in London by Heinemann (1961) under title: Madman's Bend Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f MADM/MS Breakaway house [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED 1962. 52 leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; holograph amendments by the. "Finally begun 5/9/62"--t.p. In spring-back binder, inscribed D. Uren. SUMMARY Fragment of an unpublished Bony novel, with the same setting but a different plot to that of the novel of the same title serialised in the 1930s and published in book form by Angus & Robertson (1987) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BREA/MS UNIF Will of the tribe. The body on Lucifer's couch [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1961?] 270, [5] leaves ; 26 cm. ; additional holograph revisions by the. Includes [5] leaves of additional holograph amendments. In spring file with holograph cover title: The will of the tribe. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1962) and in London by Heinemann (1961) under title: The will of the tribe. Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f WILL/MS UNIF Bony and the white savage. The man behind the door [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1960?]
257 leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; additional holograph revisions by the. "Bony & the white savage" : ms. addition to title leaf. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1961) under title: The white savage ; published in London by Heinemann (1961) under title: Bony and the white savage. Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BONY-W/MS/Orig UNIF Bony and the white savage. The man behind the door [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1960?] 259 leaves, [6] p. ; 26 cm. ; additional holograph revisions by the Includes [6] pages of additional holograph amendments; one page written on the back of a letter inviting Upfield to the Bermagui Tuna Festival, 1960 Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1961) under title: The white savage ; published in London by Heinemann (1961) under title: Bony and the white savage. Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BONY-W/MS/Rev UNIF Bony and the black virgin. When hell was dowsed [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1959?] ca. 275 leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; numerous holograph corrections by the. Some leaves typed on the back of the letterhead of Bonaparte Holdings Pty. Ltd Numerous revisions in foliation. Published in London by Heinemann (1959) under title: Bony and the black virgin Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BONY-B/MS Bony and the Kelly gang [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1959?] 268 leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; numerous holograph revisions by the. Original typescript version. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1960) under title: Valley of smugglers ; published in Heinemann (1960) under title: Bony and the black virgin Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BONY-K/MS/Orig Bony and the Kelly gang [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1959?] 268 leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; additional holograph revisions by the. Revised typescript version. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1960) under title: Valley of smugglers ; published in London by Heinemann (1960) under title: Bony and the Kelly Gang. Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BONY-K/MS/Rev AT BINDERS UNIF Bony buys a woman. Loyalty has no colour [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1956?] 280, [5] leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; [5] leaves of corrections by the. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1957) under title: The bushman who came back, and published in London by
Heinemann (1957) under title: Bony buys a woman Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BONY-BW/MS The battling prophet [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1955] 137 leaves ; 26 cm. Complete set of clippings of the seralisation in the Sydney weekly magazine World's news (Feb.- Apr. 1955), pasted on to blank leaves, with typed chapter headings and foliation. Probably Upfield's file copy. Publlished in London by Heinemann (1956) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. OTHER TITL World's news. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BATT/Serial The battling prophet [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1954?] 314 leaves ; 26 cm. with holograph emendations. The label of Richard Steele & Son, Literary, Dramatic and Film Agents, London, is affixed to t.p. and folder. An original typed listing of Upfield's novels is inserted. Probably the copy used by the printer of the 1956 English edition. Serialised in the Sydney weekly magazine World's news (Feb.- Apr. 1955) and published in London by Heinemann (1956) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. OTHER TITL World's news. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BATT/MS Cake in the hat box [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1953?] 245 leaves ; 26 cm. ; holograph amendments by the. The label of Richard Steele & Son, Literary, Dramatic and Film Agents, London, is affixed to t.p. and folder. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1954) under title: Sinister stones, and published in London by Heinemann (1955) under title: Cake in the hat box. "American title: Sinister stones" is written on the t.p. but has been crossed out. Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f CAKE/MA/245l Cake in the hat box [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1953?] 237 leaves ; 26 cm. Upfield's address typed on t.p. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1954) under title: Sinister stones, and published in London by Heinemann (1955) under title: Cake in the hat box. Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f CAKE/MS/237l Death of a lake [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1953?] 275 leaves ; 26 cm. Published in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1954) and published in London by Heinemann (1954)
Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f DEAT-L/MS AUTHOR Hawke, Jessica. Beauty for ashes [manuscript] / by Jessica Hawke. PUBLISHED [1948] ca. 388 leaves, bound ; 26 cm.. Holograph corrections by Arthur Upfield and Jessica Hawke. Some misnumbering of leaves; leaf 23 omitted. Written by Arthur Upfield, possibly in collaboration with Jessica Hawke. Never published. Kay Craddock. Works of Arthur W. Upfield p.26. Purchased from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller 2004. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BEAU/MS UNIF Death of a swagman. Blood on the walls of China [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1944?] 307 leaves ; 26 cm. ; numerous corrections by the and in another hand. Published in Sydney by Angus and Robertson (1947), in London by Aldor (1946) and in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1945) under title: Death of a swagman. Accompanied by a typewritten letter ([2] p. ; 33 cm.) from Keith [J.K. Ewers] with comments and suggestions on the novel. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. Ewers, John K. (John Keith), 1904-1978 Signer. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f DEAT-S/MS Miss Oo-La-La [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1941] 9 leaves ; 26 cm. Rejection ship from ABC weekly, dated 9 Dec. 1941, attached. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. Love and the leopard [manuscript] : a radio play / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [between 1939-1941?] 24 leaves ; 26 cm. ; some holograph amendments. Bound in manilla folder. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD Box 5 UNIF Bushranger of the skies. Burning water [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1939?] 248 leaves ; 33 cm. Holograph, heavily corrected and amended. Includes a 2-page typed synopsis, a sketch map in the 's hand and an 8-page (21 x13 cm.) typed physical and character description of characters in the novel. The typed description uses the title: Flame in the shadow, which also appears on the title-page of the manuscript, below the 's name.
Published in Australia (Angus and Robertson (1937)) and the United Kingdom as: Bushranger of the skies; and in New York (Doubleday for the Crime Club (1944)) as: No footprints in the bush. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. OTHER Flame in the shadow. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BUSH/MS His majesty the swordfish [manuscript] : a series of four articles dealing with angling for swordfish in Australian waters/ by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1938?] 4 pts [37 leaves] ; 26 cm. Accompanied by 2 original photographs and a sheet with 4 photocopied photographs of Upfield with trophy fish; another original photograph of Upfield with a trophy fish with another of his son, pasted on a sheet with a biographical note ; a plaque for the 'Striped marlin 223 lbs caught by Mr. A.W. Upfield, off Bermagui, 13 Feb. '37, mounted by Sil Rohu, Sydney"; and the 1937/38 and 1938/39 issues of the Bermagui Big Game Anglers' Club report, Bermagui, N.S.W. Australia : the Australian headquarters of big game fishing, in which versions of Upfield's articles appeared. Manuscript (carbon copy) Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. Bermagui Big Game Anglers' Club. OTHER TITL Bermagui. The bone is pointed [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1937?] 313 leaves ; 27 cm. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. Published in Sydney by Angus and Robertson (1938), in London by Hamilton (1939) and in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1947) UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BONE/MS His majesty the swordfish [manuscript] : a series of four articles dealing with angling for swordfish in Australian waters/ by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1937?] 4 pts (37 leaves) ; 26 cm. Manuscript (carbon copy) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. Versions of Upfield's articles appeared in the 1937/38 and 1938/ 39 issues of the Bermagui Big Game Anglers' Club report, Bermagui, N.S.W. Australia : the Australian headquarters of big game fishing. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f HIS/MS The tale of a Pommy [manuscript] : an autobiography / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1935?] 369 leaves ; 26 cm. ; some holograph deletions, corrections and additions.
Includes some newspaper cuttings which have been pasted down and altered by the to form part of the work. Unpublished. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. A manuscript version of this work, under title: Beyond the mirage : autobiography of Arthur Upfield, is held in the National Library of Australia : Manuscript reference no.: MS 9590. Beyond the mirage. National Library of Australia. Manuscript 9590. OTHER TITL Beyond the mirage. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f TALE/MS [Winds of evil] [manuscript] / [Arthur W. Upfield] PUBLISHED [1935?] [215] leaves ; 33 cm. Holograph, heavily corrected and amended. Lacks leaves preceding leaf 46, and leaves 86-149. Published in Sydney by Angus and Robertson (1937), in London by Hutchinson (1939) and in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1944) Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f WIND/MS Up and down Australia [manuscript] : a series of 12 autobiographical articles. [No. 10-11] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1935?] 5, [3], 4 leaves ; 26 cm. Mounted newscuttings with typed and holograph alterations, in folder with typed titling-label. Title from cover label. "This series of artcles were written on personal experience by one who migrated to Australia as a young man in 1910 who is now the of six novels published by Hutchinson & Co, London, and of illustrated articles which have appeared in all countries in Europe and in America. They have been published in every State in Australia, and are now offered because the migration question is again coming to the fore. If use cannot be made of them, kindly destroy. If used, kindly send cheque to Arthu W. Upfield, Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Australia"-- Typescript note pasted on p. [2] of folder cover. CONTENTS No. 10. Novels and a novel plot -- No. 11. The Murchison bones case. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. Francis Edward Cobbold : [manuscript] sailor, Fijian trader and Australian pioneer pastoralist / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1935] 2 v. (iii, 385 leaves) ; 29 cm.. In two springback binders. "When compiling the work I was assisted by Mr. Cobbold to the point of collaboration. he has provided the bones; I have placed on them merely the flesh of the historical background and the life blood of personalities."--leaf iii. SUMMARY Typescript draft. This biography of Francis Cobbold was never published. Photocopy held at the National Library of Australia. NLA MS 5806.
Presented to the University of Melbourne Library in 2005 by Catherine Dobson, in memory of Beatrice Rose Mary Howard (née Douglas), Robert Andrew Douglas, Thomas William Capell, medical student at Melbourne University, 1933-1939. Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia, D595. SUBJECT Cobbold, Francis Edward. LOCAL DATA Dobson, Catherine Donor. Cobbold, Francis Edward. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f FRAN/MS/Quarto v.1 UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f FRAN/MS/Quarto v.2 [Correspondence etc. relating to Arthur Upfield's biography of Francis Edward Cobbold] : [manuscript] PUBLISHED 1934-1935] 8 items ; 13-25 cm. CONTENTS Typescripts, signed. Receipts, signed by Upfield, dated 7th November, 23rd November and 21st December 1934, for sums received from F.E. Cobbold -- Letter 1935 Nov. 28 from Angus & Robertson to A.W. Upfield re their inabilty to provide a printing quote -- Letter 1935 Dec. 5 from the Collector of Customs and Excise to A.W. Upfield on the duty payable on a publication from London -- Letter 1935 Dec. 17 from Unwin Bros Ltd, London, to George Franklin with a quote for printing -- Letter 1935 Dec. 18 from George Franklin to A.W. Upfield re the quote from Unwin Bros -- Letter 1935 [i.e.1936] Jan. 3 from A.W. Upfield to Mrs. F.E. Cobbold, accompanying the other letters, and suggesting a meeting if she is prepared to go ahead with the project. Presented to the University of Melbourne Library in 2005 by Catherine Dobson, in memory of Beatrice Rose Mary Howard (née Douglas), Robert Andrew Douglas, Thomas William Capell, medical student at Melbourne University, 1933-1939. Cobbold, Francis Edward. Francis Edward Cobbold. Franklin, George. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f COBB/Corr AUTHOR Cobbold, Francis Edward. [Autobiography] : [manuscript] PUBLISHED [1934?] iii, 21, 12-183 leaves ; 34 cm.. In springback binder. SUMMARY Typescript draft; with emendations, possibly in the hand of F.E. Cobbold. This version is told in the first person and lacks chapter headings. "Mr. F.E. Cobbold's autobiography. This is a rough draft with the first dozen pages missing... This account was dictated by F.E. Cobbold at 7 Fulham Ave., South Yarra, Melbourne to, I think, Arthur Upfield, the Australian. The year would be about 1933-34." "In September 1978 a copy of the book Francis Edward Cobbold was given to me by my sister Mrs C.J. Howard. The first twenty-one pages have been copied and added to this account which must have been the rough draft from which the book was derived. R.A. Douglas."-- leaf preceding t.p. The first 24 leaves of this manuscript have been supplied from Upfield's unpublished version of the biography: Francis Edward Cobbold : sailor, Fijian trader and Australian pioneer pastoralist.
LOCAL DATA Presented to the University of Melbourne Library in 2005 by Catherine Dobson, in memory of Beatrice Rose Mary Howard (née Douglas), Robert Andrew Douglas, Thomas William Capell, medical student at Melbourne University, 1933-1939. Dobson, Catherine Donor. Francis Edward Cobbold. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f FRAN/MS/Foolscap Gripped by drought [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1932?] 459, [1] leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; [1] leaf of typed revisions. Published in London by Heinemann (1932) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f GRIP/MS/Original Gripped by drought [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [1932?] 459, [1] leaves ; 26 cm. In 2 spring-back binders (36 cm.) ; the first inscribed: "The property of Arthur W. Upfield." Published in London by Heinemann (1932) Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f GRIP/MS/Carbon v.1 UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f GRIP/MS/Carbon v.2 AT BINDERS Hawke, Jessica. UNIF Follow my dust! That bastard from the bush [manuscript] / by Jessica Hawke ; with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. PUBLISHED [195-] [2], v, 377 leaves, bound ; 26 cm. ; holograph list of contents by Jessica Hawke. Corrections by Arthur Upfield and Jessica Hawke. Leaf 288 omitted in numbering. The work is in fact Upfield's autobiography, published under title: Follow my dust! (London : Heinemann, 1957) Another manuscript version is entitled: That blighter from the bush. Kay Craddock. Works of Arthur W. Upfield p.27. Purchased from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller 2004. In a clamshell box. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f FOLL/MS/Carbon Hawke, Jessica. UNIF Follow my dust! That blighter from the bush [manuscript] / by Jessica Hawke ; with an introduction by Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. PUBLISHED [195-] [1], v, 377 leaves, bound ; 26 cm. Typescript. Holograph corrections by Arthur Upfield and Jessica Hawke. Leaf 288 omitted in numbering. The work is in fact Upfield's autobiography, published under title: Follow my dust! (London : Heinemann, 1957) Another manuscript version is entitled: That bastard from the bush. Kay Craddock. Works of Arthur W. Upfield p.26. Purchased from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller 2004. In a clamshell box. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f FOLL/MS
The imperfect crime [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [194-?] 8 leaves ; 26 cm. Rejection ship from ABC weekly attached. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. The head of the revolution [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [193-?] 19 leaves ; 26 cm. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. The miracle [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [193-?] 18 leaves ; 26 cm. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. The murderers' home [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [193-?] 23 leaves ; 26 cm. Purchased from Serendipity Books Berkeley, Calif. 2004. The Barrakee mystery [manuscript] / by Arthur W. Upfield. PUBLISHED [196-?] 416 leaves ; 26 cm. Typescript ; holograph revisions (most if not all) by the Includes glossary (leaves 415-416); possibly intended for a U.S. edition. Published in London by Heinemann (1929, 2nd ed. 1965) under title: The Barrakee mystery and in New York by Doubleday for the Crime Club (1965) under title: The lure of the bush. Purchased from Australian Book Auctions Armadale, Vic. 2005. UniM Bail SpC/UPFIELD f BARR/MS