20th Century Classics

A Delivery of Furies – Victor Canning

Adventure and skulduggery by the master of suspense Victor Canning. A Reader’s Club, London edition 1962 arranged by first publishers Hodder etc. We prefer this edition for the super dust jacket [albeit chipped] designed by Vern Hayles.

Octavo, 256 pages, very clean and a very good copy bar the aforementioned chips.

Ex war pilot, Keith Marchant, is in deep trouble with the love of his life Drea who wants him to give up a rogue’s life. But on last “job” to make off with a shipment of fighter aircraft for an island based would be world troublemaker is too much to pass by. It gets exciting. Shades of Bond and Simon Templar.

Marchant takes a gamble; but will he pull it off?

$25.00

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Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 2003

A very nice copy of the first edition published by Bloomsbury in 2003.

Another complex and sometimes challenging narrative by Margaret Atwood. The story begins with the central character “Snowman” sleeping in a tree with only an old bedsheet. He has lost his beloved Oryx and his friend Crake and is slowly starving. He tries to piece together his haunting memories … the narrative moves decades earlier and takes a double journey back to Crake’s high-tech bubble dome where the Paradice Project unfolded.

Large thick octavo, 378 pages, a very good copy.

Atwood’s stunning narrative and the Paradice Project.

$35.00

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The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 1993

A very good copy of this substantial novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Bloomsbury, London in 1993. Described as her best work to date and this comes after The Handmaid’s Tale.

Large thick octavo, 470 pages, silk ribbon marker, dust jacket in good condition, internally very clean.

As would be expected a complex novel of the supernatural sort. Zenia has caused her three friends all sorts of problems including stealing their menfolk. Now she is dead and they have attended her funeral maybe things will go better. Not so.

Margaret Atwood First and a complex rewarding narrative .

$35.00

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The Bandit “El Caballero” – Leslie Charteris

A 1952 edition of an early Leslie Charteris thriller published by Ward Lock, London.

Octavo, 255 pages, super dust jacket albeit, roughed at top and edge, forgive it for its rarity.

Charteris had not really got into his “Saint” stride before this book which is centres on a South American modern-day bandit – Ramon Francisco De Castilla Y Espronceda also known as “El Caballero” … “The Knight”. To complicate things further Scotland Yard knew him as “The Cat” …. After his prowling habit.

Flashy crime, besotted entanglements ensue.

Charteris in the same world but with different characters.

$50.00

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Solomon’s Song – Bryce Courtenay – First edition 1999

First edition published by Viking, Melbourne in 1999. Thick octavo, 659 pages; very good condition.

This book is the third of a trilogy of books [also The Potato Factory and Tommo & Hake– we should have a copy].

Time has moved on and there are two branches of Ikey Solomon’s family that have deep hatred for each other. Through three generations we see them rise to be monied people … a story that mirrors the development of Australia.

Solomon descendants make their way but stay bitter.

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$40.00

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Tommo & Hawk [Second in the Potato Factory Trilogy] – Bryce Courtenay – First edition 1997

First edition published by Viking, Melbourne in 1997. Thick octavo, 673 pages; very good condition.

This book is the second of a trilogy of books [also The Potato Factory and Solomon’s Song – we should have a copy].

Tommo and Hawk are twin brothers who are separated when young and find themselves re-united in Hobart at the age of fifteen. A life of adventure ensues which includes whaling adventures, Maori Wars and Riots on the Australian Gold Fields.

Courtenay’s Trilogy Continues – one more to go.

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$40.00

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A Delivery of Furies – Victor Canning

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 2003

The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 1993

The Bandit “El Caballero” – Leslie Charteris

Solomon’s Song – Bryce Courtenay – First edition 1999

Tommo & Hawk [Second in the Potato Factory Trilogy] – Bryce Courtenay – First edition 1997

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