G'day all,

Abby Sale: No (I can speak for Joe O in this respect as I am chasing some Australian books for him presently).

The Second Penguin Australian Song Book is a completely new book by Bill Scott (lovely feller, up north [of me] in Brisbane). This is a more personal selection than the John Manifold lot in the first book, which set out (reasonably successfully) to be a "Standard" collection.

The two Meredith books: Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them - Volume 1, John Meredith and Hugh Anderson and ~, Volume 2, John Meredith, Roger Covell and Patricia Brown, were last published by the NSW University Press ... and are out of print. The Bush Music Club still has a few copies in stock (along with a few other rare and out of print Australian small print run books). We stocked up for members ... but if they haven't bought them now, I reckon any interested folkie should be able to buy them (he says, having safely made sure he has 2 at least copies of everything!).

Regards,

Bob Bolton