Biography/ autobiography

Tasmanian Literary Landmarks [Identites] – Giordano and Norman

Only edition of this very interesting and handy book on a number [29] of the best Tasmanian writers starting at the very beginning – finishing before the modern age.

Published by Shearwater Press, Hobart in 1984. Softcover, perfect bound, 202 pages, some useful illustrations … the best of which, in our mind, is the house that Alan Villiers was brought up at … 318 Liverpool Street, Hobart.

We have just decided to get something by everyone of them … book collecting has to be a passion or is it obsession … some kind of “ssion” anyway.

Nothing compares with this work – it will be a while before AI [or SI] catches up.

$30.00

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The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton – Hugh Robert Mill – First Edition 1923

A first edition of the prestige edition of the biography of Shackleton by his long-time colleague and admirer Hugh Robert Mill.

Published by Heinemann, London in 1923. Large octavo, 312 pages, 19 illustrations from photographs and four maps in the text. Original blue cloth covered binding with gilt titling to front and spine and gilt shield. A little ageing, altogether still a very good copy of a much-prized edition.

Mill states in his Preface that he had the assistance of lady Shackleton and the great man’s daughters Miss Shackleton, Miss A.V. Shackleton and Miss Eleanor Shackleton (the protocol of the 1920’s). He also acknowledges that the book is weighted towards the exploratory and whilst referencing Shackleton’s business exploit and war effort they are written with limited personal experience of the facts. Regardless of the qualification we find most interesting the chapters on Shackleton’s early life as sea starting as a “Boy” on the Iquique going around the Horn. The rest is “history” …

Shackleton by a man who knew him well.

SO SORRY ON HOLD ENQUIRE IF YOU WISH

$220.00

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Admiral Byng – A Letter to a member of Parliament in the Country, from His Friend in London relative to the Case of Admiral Byng – with some Original Papers and Letters which Passes during the Expedition – First Edition 1756

Admiral Bying was famously executed on his ship at Plymouth having been found guilty of retiring against the enemy [cowardice].

It was a terrible set-up and much information was withheld during his Trial and much more was bent out of shape – noting much changed there!

An anonymous author but obviously with many contacts relevant to the matter.

A pamphlet printed by J Cooke at the King’s Arms, Great Turnstile, Holborn [London] in 1756. Saddle stitch as original 31 pages, pretty good condition, very clean.

Contains extracts from numerous contemporary reports and letters and a set of tables that prove the assertion that Byng retreated from and “inferior” force to be very wrong.

Byng a thorough rebuttal of the case against him – but too late.

SO SORRY SOLD

$150.00

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[important Aboriginal Content] Where Strange Paths Go Down – Alice Duncan-Kemp

This would appear to be the most collectable and cherished edition published in 1964 by Smith and Paterson, Brisbane. Previously issued in 1952.

Thick royal octavo, xxxii and 299 pages over 200 plates from photographs, artwork by James Wienke. Endpaper maps. Some age but otherwise an excellent very good copy.

Alice Duncan-Kemp [1901-1988] was brought up on Mooraberrie Station west of Windarah in the far west of south Queensland. Her brother and father died before she was seven years old and she was brought up by her mother who decided to stay on the property assisted by local aboriginals. Because of these circumstances Alice’s relationship with the aboriginals was intimate – she and her sister would go on extended mustering trips etc during which she would learn aboriginal ways and hear about heir customs, folklore etc. As well as the history of frontier conflict and resistance.

Her knowledge, set down in this book is both unique and extensive. The photographic imagery that supports the text makes the work that more special.

Treasured work by Duncan-Kemp

$390.00

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Gallipoli to the Somme – the Story of Charles. E.W. Bean – Dudley McCarthy – First edition 1983

The definitive relevant biography of Australia’s principal war correspondent of WWI. To say principal may even be understating his role if you have seen and read [a monumental task] Bean’s twelve thick volume work on Australians in the Great War.

Such a man requires quite a lengthy biography, 400 pages in total well illustrated from contemporary photographs.

Published by John Ferguson, Sydney in 1983 a first edition. Large octavo bound in grey leatherette, full dust jacket. A very good copy, excuse a bit of tape residue on the end papers. Internally super clean.

Understanding Charles Bean and how he went about documenting WWI.

$50.00

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A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway – True First Edition 1964 – Predates American Edition by one day – and best presented anyway

First Edition Hemingway, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1964. Octavo, 192 pages.

Unique wrap-around dust jacket design by Hans Tisdall – see below. A very good copy – gift condition.

Learn more about Hemingway in this story telling autobiographical work … finished in his final days.

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast”.

Scarce Collectable Hemingway First Edition

P.S. Hans Tisdall was the designer of the Hemingway Cape dust jackets. You can see why we like them at Voyager … they have Universal attraction. Tisdall (1910-1971) born in Germany was originally a textile designer and made his name at Edinburgh Weavers. Later in life he won awards for the design of the entryway to the Battersea Fun Park and was commissioned to produce dust jacket artwork for which he designed these distinctive brushstroke cursive fonts. Michael Harvey subsequently produced a new typeface base on this style named Tisdall Script.

$180.00

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Tasmanian Literary Landmarks [Identites] – Giordano and Norman

The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton – Hugh Robert Mill – First Edition 1923

Admiral Byng – A Letter to a member of Parliament in the Country, from His Friend in London relative to the Case of Admiral Byng – with some Original Papers and Letters which Passes during the Expedition – First Edition 1756

[important Aboriginal Content] Where Strange Paths Go Down – Alice Duncan-Kemp

Gallipoli to the Somme – the Story of Charles. E.W. Bean – Dudley McCarthy – First edition 1983

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway – True First Edition 1964 – Predates American Edition by one day – and best presented anyway

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