Quadrant Magazine Company, Sydney, 1973. Magazine bound into annual hardcover, 7" x 9½. Ours is a soundly bound ex-library copy, with usual stickers, stamps and pockets etc. Book in VERY GOOD condition. Entire run of 1973 Quadrant magazines (5), with contributions by Australia's best writers and overseas specialists, bound into one black cloth hardcover, with red flecks to page edges, gold type to spine. Issue 81 also includes L C Rodd backgrounding: 'The Mystery of LASSETER and His Reef' (13 pages). Issue 82 includes Hal Porter's Short Story on cultural feasts, 'Festival' (7½ pages); and 'A Discussion on the Political Future of Papua New Guinea' - five academics have their says (nine pages). Issue 83 sees Elizabeth Wood score with "1840 - 1965: Precedents and Problems for Australian Opera Composers'; and Leonie Kramer challenges the current interpretations of PATRICK WHITE's intentions and performance. Issue 84 includes Australian Book Publishing - Far from Indigenous … Bruce Semler explains (4½ pages); and Month-long Strike by some Academic Staff at Sydney Uni. over Women's Liberation course - Peter Westmore exams the origins and course. Issue 85/86 includes HUMPHREY McQUEEN looking at the decline of Anti-Communism in Australia; and 'Contemporary Opera in Germany and England' - Kay Dreyfuss's overview. Each issue (5) has further items on Australian society, politics, stories, reviews and criticism. Packed book weighs 1¼ kilos (3 lbs), slightly-higher-than-usual shipping will apply - we will gladly quote first.