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Willow Pattern Walkabout by Kirwan Ward and Paul Rigby
Willow Pattern Walkabout by Kirwan Ward and Paul Rigby || Very Good Condition
Very Rare – No other copies available online
Wholly set up and printed by West Australian Newspapers Ltd.
Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed and inscrutable. They went, they saw, and they produced a picture of China at a key moment in its history, still feeding off the exhilaration of the creation of “People’s China” in 1949, and full of optimism and blind idealism.
Who are Edward Bernard Kirwan Ward and Paul Rigby?
Edward Bernard Kirwan Ward (1909-1983) was a English journalist, who moved to Australia at age 18. Following WWII, he became a popular and prolific columnist on various topics, and later a radio personality and ten books.
Paul Rigby (1924-2006) was the best-known Australian cartoonists of his era, producing as many 15,000 works in his prolific 59-year career. He is best known for his works for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney Daily Mirror, The Sun and New York Post, for which he won numerous international awards. The pair began working together in 1952, forming a lifelong friendship and an artistic partnership that produced countless articles and several books.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-rigby-430520.html
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Edward Bernard “Bernie” Kirwan Ward (2 April 1909 – 5 March 1983) was a journalist most notable for his work with the Daily News in Perth, Western Australia.