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Alfred Greenwood Hales (1860-1936), known as 'Smiler' Hales, was an Australian novelist and war correspondent. This is part of an article about Hales in an Australian newspaper, just after he died:
Mr Hales lived dangerously. He was in every important rush
which took place in the last decade of the nineteenth century - Broken Hill, Coolgardie, Kimberley, North Queensland and some others. He followed the wars, fighting or acting as war correspondent in South Africa, the Russo-Japanese War, wars in the Balkans, and the Great War. He was daring and carefree, a fine horseman, a strong and ready boxer, and participant in all sports requiring athleticism. Hales was a vigorous and imaginative writer, whose pen was often as good humoured and reckless as he himself. His novels, which commanded wide reading, were virile but not as much as his contributions to the daily papers. His letters from South Africa to the Daily Mail during the Boer War caused a sensation. They were read with avidity everywhere. Hales found dramatic, tragic, sentimental and picturesque material where to others there was hardly more than a blank.
A.G. Hales, not smiling
Hales wrote two novels featuring a man named M'Glusky, an Australian of Scottish descent: M'Glusky and M'Glusky the Reformer both of which had a dust jacket designed by Blampied. Blampied also designed dust jackets for two other novels by Hales: The Watcher on the Tower and Angel Jim.
Cheap edition
Bibliography code: TFU-22.4
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Series: none
Year: 1922
Format: not seen
Pages: not seen
Binding: not seen
Size: not seen
Dust jacket: signed Blam, lower margin right
Internal illustrations: none
Price: not known
Printing history: First published 1906
Printed by: not known
Notes: This book is known only from Blampied's album of dust jackets. The dust jacket has not been found on a book. If you have one, please contact me.
Panel of dust jacket from Blampied's album (click to enlarge)