Fiction

The Long Voyage Home [Nautical Plays] – Eugene O’Neil

Great Modern Library edition published in 1946 in very good condition.

Seven short plays by Eugene O’Neil. Includes … The Moon of the Caribees; Bound East for Cardiff; Isle; Where the Cross is Made; The Rope and our favourite “In the Zone” and of course the title play The Long Voyage Home.

Nautical Plays for Salty Dogs

$30.00

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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

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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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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The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Complete and Unabridged] – Victor Hugo

One of the more sought after editions of this classic published by the Modern Library in the 1952. A very good dust jacket with striking ghoulish imagery.

Octavo, 416 pages until it all “crumbles to dust”, plus publishers catalogue. A book of ten books all at a fast pace.

Written by Victor Hugo at the age of twenty nine, and stands with Les Miserables as one of his most memorable works.

Stirs the heart kindles the imagination …

The Bells … oh the bells

$40.00

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Hornblower and the Hotspur – C.S. Forester – First Edition 1962

First edition published by Michael Joseph, London in 1962. Octavo, 266 pages, blue cloth covered boards, very good dust jacket, top page edge toned otherwise very clean.

The tenth volume in the Hornblower series and we make it third in chronological order. The last finished Hornblower novel “Crisis” being incomplete at Forester’s death.

Set in 1803 with war with France imminent Hornblower is promoted to Commander and given the Sloop HMS Hotspur. Sent off to enforce the blockade at Brest … does his usual super job not without difficulty and danger. Cornwallis considers him for promotion to Post-Captain … a position achieved when he executes his plan to deliver false documents to the French … it all had a bearing on “Trafalgar”.

Hornblower’s career develops with bravery and cunning

$40.00

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The Long Voyage Home [Nautical Plays] – Eugene O’Neil

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

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

The Potato Factory – Bryce Courtenay – First edition 1995

The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Complete and Unabridged] – Victor Hugo

Hornblower and the Hotspur – C.S. Forester – First Edition 1962

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