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Penguin Island – Anatole France

An early Modern Library edition, pre WWII publication. Very good condition, top edge stained grey blue to match the binding, very good dust jacket.

Written in French a most unusual fantasy book by Anatole France, who was awarded the Nobel Prize.

A wayward Christian lands on an island and mistakes some auks for noble pagans and proceeds to baptise them. As this should only happens to humans, when he finds out he transform the auks to human form and from there the history of Penguinia unfolds .. a satire emulating the history of Europe and some strange affairs.

Maybe underneath we are really all penguins or auks?

$30.00

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Barchester Towers and The Warden – Anthony Trollope

A very good near fine period Modern Library edition in a similar condition complete dust jacket.

Useful introduction by Harlan Hatcher then Professor of English at the Ohio State University.

Anthony Trollope wrote Barchester Towers in the 1850’s. He built a special transportable desk so he could write whilst on the train. His publishers thought it somewhat vulgar. The Guardian have it on their “must be read list”. Trollope most realistic and entertaining of the 19th century greats.

Double dose of Trollope

$30.00

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Des Rubans – Lepape – Gazette du Bon Ton Pochoir – 1913

A very decorative and unusual “Pochoir” by top artist George Lepape (1887-1971) for the Paris Gazette du Bon Ton published in 1913. One of the earliest issued. With an absolutely stunning colour selection.

Price $90.00 unframed …

“Des Rubans” … and many of them. The ultimate in fashion print from a perfect era.

$90.00

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Emile Zola – Nana

A classic from the Modern Library collection published in the 1950′s and in very good condition.

Nana was banned in England on publication in 1888 for supposed obscenity. Zola the greatest influence on the school of “realistic” writing here demonstrated to perfection.

Obscenity surely not

$30.00

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A Sort of Life – Graham Greene – First Edition 1971

Published by the Bodley Head, London a first edition 1971 in very good condition.

Autobiography of Greene’s earlier years. He was almost permanently drunk during his final year at Oxford and seems quite proud of it … and he touches on a bit of spying and some writing success and failure and borrowing money from his mother. First Edition.

A sort of Life – we could all aspire to

$30.00

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Mirango the Man-Eater – C. Dudley Lampen – First Edition 1899

Title continues …A Tale of Central Africa being The Narrative of George Pryce traveller and exile, first writ down Anno Domini 1706 , and now retold …

An unusual book never mind the confronting title. First edition 1899 in pretty good condition considering. The author C. Dudley Lampen (1859-1943) is a recognised early Sci-fi writer and had previously published “The Queen of the Extinct Volcano”.

Mirango is about Africa and the finding of a society of lost ancient Egyptians. Recognised in a number of fantasy bibliographies including – A Spectrum of Fantasy 132; Bleiler 118 and Reginald 8571.

Octavo, 242 pages plus advertisements. Published curiously by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London. With three half tone plates and other decorative devices and the stunning pictorial book cover.

Lost Race Classic from 1899 …..

$50.00

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