Bookstall series

{{Short description|Series of Australian 1 shilling books}}

The Bookstall series was a series of Australian books published by the NSW Bookstall Company from 1904 onwards.

Among the novelists published under the series were Ambrose Pratt and Arthur Wright.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145890633 |title=THE BOOKSTALL SERIES. |newspaper=The Worker (Wagga, NSW: 1892 - 1913) |location=Wagga, NSW |date=9 September 1909 |accessdate=1 October 2014 |page=21 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123825890 |title=AUSTRALIAN-MADE BOOKS. |newspaper=Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW: 1895 - 1930) |location=Sydney, NSW |date=3 April 1910 |accessdate=1 October 2014 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation | title=N.S.W. Bookstall Series. (31 March 1922) | journal=The Bookfellow: The Australasian Review and Journal of the Australasian Book Trade | publication-date=1922-03-31 | publisher=Bookfellow | volume=7 | issue=3 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/234849932 | access-date=28 September 2023}}

The books were sold for one shilling and consisted of Australian authors and topics. It was the idea of A. C. Rowlandson.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128147565 |title=AUSTRALIA'S GREATEST PUBLISHING BUSINESS. |newspaper=Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW: 1895 - 1930) |location=Sydney, NSW |date=2 November 1924 |accessdate=1 October 2014 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206220077 |title=The Shilling Novel. |newspaper=The Age (Melbourne, Vic.: 1854 - 1954) |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=23 August 1952 |accessdate=1 December 2015 |page=14 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{Citation | author1=Book Collectors' Society of Australia | title=N.S.W. BOOKSTALL SERIES (30 November 1985) | journal=Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries | publication-date=1985-11-30 | publisher=the Society | volume=10 | issue=4 | pages=27 | issn=0157-3276}}