Cecil Madigan

Try this mob, they have one for about $75.00 I think.

Email: simperbookbinders@gmail.com

Web: www.simperbookbinders.com.au

Scrubby.

Westprint?

I got mine from there, albeit a number of years ago...

Cheers, Baz - The Landy

Very hard to find.

Borrowing options: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8476999?q&borrow=true

I have a copy,reprinted in 2001. Published by J.B.Brooks Pty.Ltd,P.O.Box 118,Marleston,S.A.5033
A very good read,

It will be almost impossible to find a copy because the book was obviously a low-volume print run in each edition, and the total number of copies in existence is probably only a few thousand.

There is one slight advantage in your search - there have been 5 editions (6, if you want a Braille copy!);

1st Edition - Printer; Corkwood Press, Adelaide - 1946. Publisher; Georgian House.
2nd Edition - Printer: Corkwood Press, Adelaide - 1974. Publisher: Rigby.
3rd Edition - Printer: Corkwood Press, Adelaide - 1997. Publisher: Corkwood Press.
4th Edition (revised) - Printer: Corkwood Press, Adelaide - 1998. Publisher: Corkwood Press
5th Edition - Printer: JB Books, Marleston S.A. - 2001. Publisher: JB Books.

Many libraries have a copy, but it also appears the libraries know the book to be rare, and they are not lent out.
All you can do, is set up a watch and an alert for a copy becoming available. All the major bookselling sites can do this for you.
Alternatively, you can seek out a local bookseller who specialises in rare and out-of-print books, and get them to put out feelers for a copy.
I don't know your location, but in W.A., Serendipity Books is good, and they quickly found a copy of a rare book that I wanted.

Sites to search;

Fishpond (you get individual people selling books on here, not just pro booksellers)
Abebooks
Biblio
Alibris
Book Depository
Better World Books
GoodReads
Amazon (you'd be surprised what Amazon sell - they are intent on beating eBay)
eBay

JB books appear to be worth contacting, they may be prepared to do another print run, as they did the last one.

Cheers, Ron.

I know that this is OT but if you are doing the Madigan Line get this map;

Madigan Travellers Guide at Exploroz shop

It has details about a detour around the Arcacia plot at the western end.

Phil

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Scrubby.

Apparently Westprint plan a reprint of both Madigan's books next year.

Madigan's notebooks from his Antarctic expedition have also been published - despite him noting that they shouldn't and you can see why. They're rather critical of 'the old man' and much of that seems to have arisen out of the normal frustrations of living cheek by jowl, or out of normal differences in reading the conditions and deciding what to do.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/march/1361848248/david-day/cecil-loathing

The great people at Westprint are your answer. Goto todays Friday Five.
http://westprint.com.au/newsletter-2015-12-18