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Nicholson, Joyce Thorpe, and Thorpe, Daniel Wrixon A life of books: the story of DW Thorpe Pty Ltd 1921-1087 Middle Park, Vic: Courtyard Press, 2000. 326p A$49.95 cloth ISBN 0646396110

JOYCE NICHOLSON BEGINS THIS BOOK WITH A PERSONAL TOUCH: it is `a tribute to my dad', DW Thorpe, a key figure in the book and stationery trades in Australia during many decades of the 20th century. In this business she herself began as `messenger girl stamp-licker and letter-folder', became an editor, then a designer and in 1968 managing director of the company. Yet it would be a serious ...