One of the 550 offerings in the current Douglas Stewart Fine Books , Melbourne, spring clean of Australian art , Sea Folk , has a link with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, OBE , Rupert Murdoch's mother .
Born February 8,l909, Elisabeth Joy Green, she attended the prestigious girls' Clyde School , established in 1910 at Saint Kilda , Victoria , ,relocated to Mount Macedon in 1919. The bookshop says the school was closed in l976 when it amalgamated with Geelong Grammar ,
"Notable alumni " included arts patron, philanthropist and landscape gardener, Elisabeth Murdoch, composer Peggy Glanville -Hicks, author Joan Lindsay (Picnic At Hanging Rock ) , architect Mary Turner Shaw and archaeologist Veronica Seton- Williams . Elisabeth was 19 when she married Keith Murdoch in 1928.
Sea Folk, 33pp, slightly silverfished , described as a very rare book of 25 original lino cuts , printed in a very small run , by the girls themselves , is priced at $1650 . One of the illustrations , a mermaid with a pearl.
The massive spring clean offering includes books on Aboriginal art .
