Voyager Rare Books Maps & Prints » Products » Fiction » 20th Century Classics

20th Century Classics

Pages: « First < Previous 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 Next >Last »

Service with a Smile – P.G. Wodehouse – First Edition

First edition published by Herbert Jenkins in 1962.

Octavo, 192 pages. Very good condition albeit with some light age marks to page edges … clean and bright inside. Good dust jacket with closed split near front hinge

Uncle Fred sorting out the upper crust as usual and importantly stops the theft of the Empress of Blandings (A portly pig) whose beautiful image adorns the front cover.

Wodehouse First and a rollicking story.

$50.00

Updating cart…
Dodsworth – Sinclair Lewis (First American Nobel Laureate for Literature)

First published in 1929 this is the 1947 Modern Library edition with a special foreword by Clifton Fadiman.

Octavo, 377 pages all in very good condition.

The author Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.

Sam Dodsworth makes a fortune selling his automotive business and with his younger glamorous wife, Fran, heads for a summer in Europe. Soon they find that their different interests drive them apart … Fran enjoying the high party life whilst Sam’s interests lie in history and culture. Fran falls for an admirer and that’s the end of the relationship. Sam has a more enduring meeting ..

Dodsworth a special story – readable and with meaning.

$25.00

Updating cart…
The Fortunes of Fifi – Molly Elliot Seawell – First Edition 1903

A first edition published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis in 1903. Interestingly, carries the booksellers sticker of Dymock’s Book Arcae, 428 George Street. Dymocks, Australia’s favourite book store was started in 1879 but soon moved to the aforementioned address as the business took off.

Fifi is a young actress in fourth rate theatre in Paris. Napoleon is involved in a minor way. She has confidantes and admirers and much love and lost love ensues. She turns out to be related to a certain person in very high place … things get rich and in a tangle which really she is not that thrilled with – eventually, she ends up with the one she should. Complex and intriguing romance. The outline is easily told … it became an early silent movie circa WW! And was very successful.

Octavo, 239 pages, with decorative end papers that match the delightful pictorial covers. A very good copy.

Classic Romance based in Paris, became one of the very first movies.

$30.00

Updating cart…
The Doomed Oasis (A Novel of Arabia) – Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes a master of the thriller.

First published 1960, this is the 1962 Readers Book Club edition which we prefer for its more evocative dust jacket.

Octavo, 286 pages, very good condition.

Set in Arabia a ex British Army Colonel has taken to Arab life. His son a wayward lad from Cardiff flees trouble to the same locale to be a geologist. Accused of murdering his father things get a bit hot under the Arabian Sun. Packed with action among the sand dunes.

Hammond Innes and Adventure and Thrills in the Desert

$25.00

Updating cart…
Ice in the Bedroom – P.G. Wodehouse – First Edition 1961

Wodehouse First UK Edition 1961. Octavo, 223 pages, red cloth covered boards with silver titling to spine and front. Dust jacket near complete, a little aged, sunned on spine. A trifle spotted on page edges, clean inside. A pretty good copy.

Freddie Widgeon has slaved a a solicitors clerk. His meagre days seem over as his holding in Silver River Oil Stock has ramped up following the recommendation of American Thomas G. Molloy. Where will it all end and with what hilarity an what is this Ice in the Bedroom.

Wodehouse Financial Humour – First UK Edition

$40.00

Updating cart…
The Small Bachelor – P.G. Wodehouse – New Edition 1970 – Fine Copy

This is an old one, first published in 1927. This is the first printing of a new issue by Barrie & Jenkins, London in 1970. Octavo, 204 pages, a very good copy in a complete dust jacket

Complex Wodehouse carry-on. George Finch artist who desires New York socialite Molly Wellington, cannot paint .. a hopeless artists. Her mother prefers the advances of Lord Hunstanton. Many characters contribute to George’s success or lack of … including a poetic policeman, an ex-convict valet, a fortune teller, Fanny the pickpocket etc.

Read carefully or your laughing will cause injury!

$40.00

Updating cart…