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The International Bookshop
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Dates of existence
1933 - 1993
History
The International Bookshop, serving Melbourne’s Left and literary culture, started as a small Communist Party of Australia bookshop in Exhibition Street, Melbourne in 1933. It sold communist papers, books and pamphlets and imported Marxist classics and Soviet literature. After the CPA became defunct the Search Foundation funded the bookshop. The bookshop closed its premises at 17 Elizabeth Street on 31 May 1993.
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Melbourne
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recreational goods retailing
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Entered from deposit description on 17 April 2012
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Sources
“What’s left for the Left to read?” by Jane Sullivan in The Age, 11 June 1993.
The New International Bookshop, http://www.newinternationalbookshop.org.au/webcontent5.htm (accessed on 17 April 2012)