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  • The Box with Broken Seals – E Phillips Oppenheim -1920

    The Box with Broken Seals – E Phillips Oppenheim -1920

    A 1920 edition published by A L Burt, New York having been first issued the year before. Very difficult to find in its dust jacket and a great example.

    Octavo, 300 pages, plus publisher’s catalogue.

    Set against the backdrop of WWI secret despatches have gone missing. English Secret Service operative James Crawshay is on the job with American Sam Hobson tagging along. A fast moving dangerous plot.

    The fate of WWI is up for grabs.

    $80.00

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  • What Happened to Forester – E Phillips Oppenheim – Scarce First Edition 1930

    What Happened to Forester – E Phillips Oppenheim – Scarce First Edition 1930

    A first edition published by Little Brown, Boston in 1930.

    Octavo, 260 pages, in better than very good condition – still with its original wrap around yellow promotional slip.

    A series of ten interconnecting short stories about the strange goings on concerning the disappearance of Major Andrew Forester retired from the army. A dashing chap who likes adventure and skirts the law.

    Lots of conspiracy and dark characters.

    Scarce and well presented Oppenheim

     

    $120.00

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  • Up the Ladder of Gold – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1931

    Up the Ladder of Gold – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1931

    A first US edition published by Little Brown, Boston in 1931 one year after the UK First.

    Dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse – “To my friend “Plum” Wodehouse – who tells me what I can scarcely believe, that he enjoys my stories as much as I do his”.

    Octavo, 312 pages, overall a very good copy albeit a couple of edge chips and some repair and age to the dust jacket.

    “The amazing story of the man who made war impossible” Protagonist Warren Rand is a mysterious businessman of dimensions to more than rival Murdoch. He controls newsprint, dominates stock markets and world economies … buys more gold than they can dig up … until his real purpose is revealed!

    Oppenheim with an underlying message that resonates today

    $80.00

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  • The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition – An Account of the Crossing of The Continent of Australia from Cooper’s Creek to Carpentaria.

    The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition – An Account of the Crossing of The Continent of Australia from Cooper’s Creek to Carpentaria.

    High quality faithful facsimile of the rare Burke and Wills publication of 1861 – Reprinted from “The Argus”.

    Published by the Libraries Board of South Australia in 1963. Octavo, ive, 36 pages, folding map. Bound in deep blue leatherette, gilt titles to spine. Neat ownership signature to front ends – distinguished collector.

    A super copy of this key exploration account, excellent multi-folding [vertical] map of the Track … of Burke, Wills, King and Gray and the course of Howitt and party to trace the remains of the Expedition.

    Burke and Wills perished but not forgotten

    $75.00

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  • Envoy Extraordinary – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1940

    Envoy Extraordinary – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1940

    Espionage at the brink of WWII this edition published by Triangle and offshoot of Little Brown, New York in 1940.

    Octavo, 307 pages, printed on “war paper’ hence the normal even toasting of the paper. Otherwise a very nice copy in a very good dust jacket indeed.

    the Earl of Matresser returns to his Norfolk estate after years of hunting and spying in Africa and Asia. Europe is rumbling and the powers that be seek to restore the balance by promoting Monarchy in Germany and elsewhere. What was Rosa Von Kampf doing in England – is she the guiding figure behind the attempt on Pilot Number Seventeen’s life?

    Classic Oppenheim – usual dust jacket art.

    $60.00

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  • The Long Labrador Trail – Dillon Wallace – First Edition 1907

    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

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