Products | Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints

The Long Labrador Trail – Dillon Wallace – First Edition 1907

A first edition published by The Outing Publishing Company, New York in 1907.

Octavo, 308 pages plus appendix of weather information daily. Nicely illustrated with 29 photographic images, coloured frontispiece and folding map at rear. The beautiful pictorial covers complete a very book. A very good copy.

In 1903, Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) accompanied Leonidas Hubbard on an exploratory trip through Labrador planning to follow the Naskaupi River to Lake Michikamau where no previous Europeans had been. They followed the wrong river and got into so much difficulty. Hubbard fell ill and died of starvation. Wallace survived and wrote his first book The Lure of the Labrador Wild published in 1905. In that book, he blamed Hubbard for the mistakes he made leading to his own death, which infuriated Hubbard’s wife

Wallace planned a much more adventurous expedition, which would become the subject of this book. Hubbard’s wife on hearing of the expedition planned her own, along the same lines. She also wrote a book “A Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labrador” … neither refer to each other!

Wallace in Labrador a second time with success and unmentioned competition.

$120.00

Updating cart…

Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

Published by the Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart in 1974.

A special maritime history of Van Diemen’s Land by the knowledgeable Alan Villiers. Superbly illustrated.

Villiers himself crewed on the whale-ship Sir James Clark Ross into the Southern Ross Sea in 1923-24.

Covers Captain Kelly (see Voyager book on Kelly); The voyage of the “Woodman”; the loss of the “George III”; the adventure of the whaler “Essex” and Captain Tregurtha’s Log; Hobart Clippers and “Graveyard Island”.

The illustrations include – The “Royal William”; the “James Craig”; the “Hobart Regatta”; the “Fram” (Amundsen) in the Derwent; the “velocity” and the “Tasmanian Cape Horn Trader in Hard Weather”.

A smorgasbord of Tasmanian and cold water Sail

$50.00

Updating cart…

Batavia’s Graveyard – The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny – M Dash

First edition of Mike Dash’s book on the bloody Batavia story. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2002.

Thick octavo, 398 pages including extensive bibliography. A very good. Illustrated with maps and charts.

The Dutch East India vessel Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the West Coast of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629. A total of 332 men, women and children were on board. A few headed off in a life boat to seek help. The remainder ended up on a small coral island less than a kilometre long. A band of mutineers began a cold – blooded killing spree … only eight remained alive when help arrived three months later. The ringleader Jeronimus Cornelisz a failed apothecary and heretic.

Gruesome true story of the strangest atrocities following a shipwreck off Australia in 1629.

$35.00

Updating cart…

The Antiquities of Warwick, and Warwick Castle – Extracted from Sir William Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire – 1786

Title goes on … To which is added, from an ancient Manuscript in the Possession of the Corporation of Warwick, a Detail of the Earl of Leicester’s Arrival in Warwick, and Celebrating the French Order of St Michael, in the Year 1571: And also, an Account of Queen Elizabeth’s Reception in Warwick, in 1572. Embellished with a Copper Plate Print of St Mary’s Church.

Printed by and for J. Sharp; and Sold by Messrs. Rivingtons, St Paul’s Church-yard, London MDCCLXXXVI [1786].

Octavo, 163 pages, large folding plate of the South East Prospect of St Mary’s Church by B Cole. Bound half leather over marbled boards, gilt embellishments to spine. Top of spine “pulled” a little age, otherwise a pretty good antiquarian copy.

Dugdale’s earlier book is the major reference on early Warwickshire and Warwick. Here we have a reduced version which made it accessible. The additions make the book, and the descriptions of Elizabeth I visit a highlight.

Warwick one of the more fascinating Castle Towns of England and a visit from Elizabeth I.

$170.00

Updating cart…

The Damon Runyon Omnibus [Including Guys and Dolls] – 1944

A first of kind published by Sun Dial Press, garden City, New York in 1994. High quality production despite the war years. Note this is the novel not the musical narrative …

Largish octavo, 505 pages, a few chips to what otherwise is a super dust jacket – very good copy overall.

Damon Runyon was the man behind “Guys and Dolls” and much more on Broadway here are three of his stories, first published in this form – “Money From home”, “Blue Plate Special” and the aforementioned all-time hit.

Much compared with P.G. Wodehouse … which is three stars to start ….

“When you see a sport and his cash has run short – Make a bet that he’s banking it with some doll
When a guy wears tails with front gleaming white – Who the hell do you think he’s tickling pink
… on Saturday night?”

A rarity that takes you back

$50.00

Updating cart…

Winesburg Ohio [A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life] – Sherwood Anderson

A classic Modern Library edition published just after WWII in 1947. Octavo, 303 pages, dust jacket with some edge wear otherwise a very good copy.

Likely Sherwood Anderson’s most admired work. Considered as one of the first books of Modernist Literature. A collection of twenty-two stories, generally described as a “short story cycle” i.e. they are all connected.

Interestingly, the place Winesburg Ohio is fictitious even though there is of course a Winesburg Ohio. The place in the stories is believed to have been based around Clyde in Ohio where Anderson was brought up …. Characters and locations are familiar.

Written in a direct unambiguous manner dealing with character over plot. Much admired and possibly directly influenced by Gertrude Stein with whom he communicated. Comparisons with Hemingway, Steinbeck etc made Voyager pick up this book and not leave it ’til done.

Winesburg Ohio so specific but could be anywhere.

SO SORRY SOLD

$30.00

Updating cart…

All products

The Long Labrador Trail – Dillon Wallace – First Edition 1907

Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

Batavia’s Graveyard – The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny – M Dash

The Antiquities of Warwick, and Warwick Castle – Extracted from Sir William Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire – 1786

The Damon Runyon Omnibus [Including Guys and Dolls] – 1944

Winesburg Ohio [A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life] – Sherwood Anderson

Product Categories