The Pacific, Volume IV. Two Issues, 1925.

Publisher: C. Barclay Smith, Neutral Bay, NSW.

Format: Pair of softcover magazines, staple bound, 42pp and 50pp, 31 x 24.3cm.

Volume IV, issues 2 [May] and 3 [June], 1925.

Scarce pair of Australian magazines published by Colin Barclay Smith (Australian, 1893–1957), a journalist and editor of the Sydney-based newspaper The New Era, which he founded in 1932 to advocate for Douglas Social Credit policies and financial reform.

The Pacific contains articles on social policy, the arts, home economics, and fiction. Contributors include A.G. Stephens, D.H. Souter, Cecil W. Bostock, Pixie O’Harris, and C. Barclay Smith.

No known copies held in institutions. Barclay Smith’s archives are held in NLA and start only in 1932.

Ref: AWM

Soiling to covers, chips, creases and tears.