20th Century Classics

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 1943 Scribner’s US Edition – Nice Copy

Published by Scribner’s, New York in 1943. Technically a first edition cited on copyright page as 1940 although 1943 on title .. so we would call it a second impression of the first.

Bound in the first edition oatmeal cloth covered boards, with red and black titling and banding to spine and facsimile signature to front. Dust jacket in near first state except no price on inside flap and photographers name, for portrait on rear, missing from first.

Thick large size octavo, 471 pages, top edge stained blue, as it should be. A very good copy, the dust jacket with a few minor chips and closed splits, really pretty good and now protected.

Hemingway’s classic about the Spanish Civil War. Tells the story of Robert Jordan a young American volunteer, attached to the Republican guerrilla unit.

Hemingway wrote the novel initially in Havana, Cuba. The work is based on Hemingway’s first-hand experiences as a reporter for the North American Alliance.

For those unfamiliar with where the title came from Hemingway helpfully provided reference to the words of English Poet and Dean of St Pauls John Donne (1572-1631) – it is well worth the understanding – … “never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee” … check it out – it will make a difference.

Ernest Hemingway – Perhaps his Strongest – Ding

$190.00

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Australian Poetry – “Waiting for the Past” a Collection – Les Murray

Published by Black Inc., in 2015 a first edition of this collection by Les Murray. Much admired by Clive James.

Slim octavo, 81 pages, dust wrapper – all in fine condition.

The first collection by Murray in five years and worth the then wait – our favourite “Last World Before the Stars” … but over 60 plus poems to choose from.

Would make a nice, simple thoughtful gift.

Beautiful use of language – we agree with Clive.

$25.00

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Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – 1937 Edition

A King’s ransom for a first edition or this pre-war new impression dated 1937.

Published by Chatto and Windus, London. Octavo, 306 pages, rare dust jacket showing some age but still a pretty good copy.

One of the standout novels of the 20^th Century. Complex and futuristic Brave New World warns us that a society obsessed with comfort, control and technological efficiency can strip away individuality, emotion and the essence of what human beings represent.

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World – an early collectable edition

$220.00

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Not as a Stranger – Morton Thompson – First UK edition 1955 – Gift Condition

First UK edition of Morton Thompson’s novel concerning the medical world – published by Michael Joseph in 1955. Published in the USA a year earlier and made into a Stanley Kramer film in 1955.

Royal octavo, 702 pages. A super clean copy with a pretty good dust jacket.

The adult life a medical student and his life as a doctor – some manoeuvres required on the financial/ marrying front to help with his study fees. Develops a dislike of fellow medics – their ethics and pursuit of money … Some quite racy bits here and there … no doubt made it movie worthy – step in Frank Sinatra

A fine novel by the much-admired Thompson, one of few serious works connected to the medical world.

$40.00

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Appointment in Samarra – John O’Harra

John O’Harra’s first novel and a little naughty in parts ….

Lovely condition … just look at the crisp bright dust jacket over sixty years old!

Praised by Ernest Hemingway although O’Harra did not feel his influence. Great introduction reflecting on his life during his writing (interesting) and the real influences and how the title came about … Not a self analysis … seemingly

Special Coveted Edition

$40.00

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In the Great White Land [Polar Regions] – Gordan Stables

Published by Blackie, London in the early 1930’s.

Octavo, 288 pages thick spongy paper and despite the spongy quite clean with minor marks to the extreme page edge. Coloured frontispiece and three full page illustrations. Prize label on front end papers. Rare in the striking illustrated dust jacket.

Three stories and despite the subtitle starts with … “Far Away in the Frozen North” an Arctic adventure on the good barque Walrus and the oft frozen Captain Mayne Brace (great pun). Story two “Under the Southern Cross” requires no clue as to the general location with many icy encounters. Finally “On the Great Antarctic Continent” and the beauty and marvel of the Ice-Cave. The sledging journey across the tableland and the dash for the pole takes its lead from the great Heroic Era accounts.

Adventure in the frozen South – very South.

$60.00

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For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 1943 Scribner’s US Edition – Nice Copy

Australian Poetry – “Waiting for the Past” a Collection – Les Murray

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – 1937 Edition

Not as a Stranger – Morton Thompson – First UK edition 1955 – Gift Condition

Appointment in Samarra – John O’Harra

In the Great White Land [Polar Regions] – Gordan Stables

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