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  • Strange Interlude – Eugene O’Neil – A Pulitzer Prize Winning Play – 1928

    Strange Interlude – Eugene O’Neil – A Pulitzer Prize Winning Play – 1928

    Published in 1928 by the up market Boni & Liveright, New York. A reprint same year as the first.

    Large thick octavo, 362 pages, decorative end papers, green cloth covered boards with simple gilt decoration and author’s faux signature. Striking Art Deco dust jacket – a few nibbles but really good. A super copy overall.

    The great American play of its day. Later a film with Clark Gable. Pulitzer Prize Winner.

    Experimental in nature, presented in nine acts, and uses the technique known as soliloquy [where the actor speaks directly to the audience about their inner thoughts. Nina, the main character looses her husband in World War I. She embarks on a series of relationships and her attitude / approach to life and desires and pains are explored.

    A superb gift for the theatre lover - almost 100 years old.

    $60.00

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  • Poems by Charles Kingsley – 1884 – Superb Fine Binding Deep Blue Leather

    Poems by Charles Kingsley – 1884 – Superb Fine Binding Deep Blue Leather

    Published by Macmillan. London, the collected edition, in 1884. Octavo, 326 pages.  Bound in deep blue polished calf with five raised bands to spine separate red leather title label and elaborate gilt work to each compartment, gilt outline to boards, marbled end papers and edges etc - really nice.

    Starts with the drama "The Saints Tragedy" based on the life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary ... who struggled with the dilemma of coming from and living a life of nobility whilst wishing to live a life of service to those that struggle ... and also, the deeply emotional, Andromeda, chained to the rocks until rescued by Perseus.

    Charles Kingsley was a  friend of Darwin and early supporter of the theory of evolution (Darwin mentions his view in later editions). Author of the Water Babies and Westward Ho and a collection of beautiful poems, songs and ballads beautifully presented here.

    Victorian Poetry bound in blue

    $60.00

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  • IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 41 – 1989  – The Journal of The International Society for the History of Cartography.

    IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 41 – 1989 – The Journal of The International Society for the History of Cartography.

    Published by Imago Mundi, Kings College, London. Small folio, 172 pages plus advertisements. Illustrated with maps, charts and diagrams. original blue cloth with gilt titling and device. Very good condition.

    An annual publication and the pinnacle of cartographic research. Superbly presented.

    The Treasure in this publication includes … Kuni-ezu – Japanese provincial maps by Hirotada Kawamura; a French paper focused on the North-West passage with maps by Laperousee, Buache, Delisle etc; maps of the Mississippi and the Gulf of [Mexico!]; dating the oldest Portuguese maps by Alfredo Pinheiro Marques; The Ruysch World Map; the Schaffhausen Carta Marina of 1531 by Henry Bruman etc etc.

    Extensive book reviews provided an excellent bibliography for cartography enthusiasts.

    Imago Mundi cannot be improved

    $60.00

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  • IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 30 [Second Series Volume 4] – 1978  The Journal of The International Society for the History of Cartography

    IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 30 [Second Series Volume 4] – 1978 The Journal of The International Society for the History of Cartography

    Published by Imago Mundi, c/o Lympe Castle, Kent [Harry Margary's magnificent residence] . Small folio, 132 pages plus advertisements. Illustrated with maps, charts and diagrams. original blue cloth with gilt titling and device. Very good condition.

    An annual publication and the pinnacle of cartographic research. Superbly presented.

    The Treasure in this publication includes a paper title “The map in Vermeer’s Art of Painting” by James Welu. 17th C Dutch painting of indoors scenes show intricate and authentic maps of the period used a wall-hangings – decorative items. In addition, a quality paper by Louis de Vorsey on the ”Amerindian contributions to the mapping of North America with some great cartographic illustrations. The very early woodcut map know as the Rom Weg map circa 1500 gets a good airing.

    Extensive book reviews provided an excellent bibliography for cartography enthusiasts.

    Imago Mundi cannot be improved

    $70.00

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  • The Potato Factory – Bryce Courtenay – First edition 1995

    The Potato Factory – Bryce Courtenay – First edition 1995

    A very nice first edition published by Heinemann, Melbourne in 1995 an Australian first edition. Thick octavo, 665 pages.

    This book is the first of a trilogy of books [also Tommo and Hawk and Solomon’s Song – we should have a copy]. The trilogy is based around the life and acquaintances of Ikey Solomon a London Jewish fraudster who finds his way to Van Diemen’s land aka Tasmania. Ikey was for sure the man behind the character Fagan of Charles Dickens fame.

    Anyway, lots of goings on in the Old Dart and then Tasmania where Ikey’s old mistress achieves some elevation and starts a Brewery “The Potato Factory”. Ikey’s wife who arrived under her earlier own unfortunate circumstances is not happy.

    Ikey Solomon a true Tasmanian character

    $30.00

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  • Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1896 – [Includes paper by Robert Etheridge Jnr on the Silurian Fossils of Montgomery, Govt Geologist]

    Printed by Davies Brothers, Hobart and issued in July 1896. Usual original presentation, octavo, perfect bound, xxviii pages of “Proceedings” followed by 100 pages of “Papers”. Appropriately illustrated, very good condition. Very clean and crisp internally.

    Distinguished geologist and paleontologist Robert Etheridge Jnr followed in the footsteps of his similarly distinguished scientific father. R.E. spent mots of his working life in Australia and his drawings of fossils are of the highest standard.

    Other papers include more geological works including microscopical studies of mineral thin sections [with plates] by the nicely named Twelvetrees; public health; fishes and a tribute to recently deceased Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller [with portrait].

    Interesting Tasmanian Royal Society P&P – 1896.

     

    $50.00

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