Author:
Ted Noffs [Theodore Delwin Noffs] (1926-1995), Christian minister, laterly with the ‘Uniting Church’, founder of the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney, and campaigner for aboriginal rights
Publication details:
29 March 1979. On letterhead of The Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross [Sydney, Australia].
See his entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Despite the Prince of Wales’s endorsement, the novelist Sally Emerson (b. 1954) proved to be the last editor of ‘Books and Bookmen’, which followed the suicide of the proprietor Philip Dosse of Hansom Books. (See her article ‘Death of a Bookman’, in Standpoint magazine, October 2018.) 2pp, 4to. On two leaves stapled together, the first with letterhead in blue ink with biblical quotation and illustration of a cross and a crown of thorns. Signed ‘T Noffs’.