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Archives Fine Books
Former 1919 printworks turned bookstore, its founder's name still cut into parapet and floor.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Archives Fine Books in Brisbane follows the building it occupies back to nineteen nineteen and the printer John Mills, who split from a business partner and answered by stamping his own name into the parapet, the entry floor, and a brass plaque above the door. It traces the presses through clients like the writer Steele Rudd, a wartime stint as a gymnasium, and the eighties handover to the secondhand booksellers who still shelve half a million volumes on the same floor. Look for the plaque by the entrance before you step inside.
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