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  • Hemingway – High on the Wild – Lloyd Arnold

    Hemingway – High on the Wild – Lloyd Arnold

    A 1977 edition of this table book relating to Hemingway’s time and family in the mountains of his beloved Idaho. Hemingway as we all know had a penchant for Cuba, Spain, Paris, Africa [the hunt] but it was the snowy winters of Idaho that he kept going back to.

    Lloyd Arnold as a friend and this book was sponsored by Hemingway’s son … it contains many images of the great man with friends and family and the odd partridge. They all look very happy and rustic – even those with Cary Grant. It makes us feel better about what would become a troubled life.

    Published by Grosset & Dunlap, quarto, 163 pages, heavily illustrated from original photographs. A little fixed to page edges otherwise a good copy.

    Hemingway Happy in the Mountains.

    $25.00

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  • Fitzgerald and Hemingway – a Dangerous Friendship – Matthew Bruccoli

    Fitzgerald and Hemingway – a Dangerous Friendship – Matthew Bruccoli

    A seriously interesting and entertaining account of the “dangerous” friendship between these two literary greats. The author Bruccoli, Professor of English at the South Carolina University and the man who penned numerous works relating to the subject pair and the definitive bibliography of Fitzgerald.

    This the first UK edition published by Andre Deutsch in 1995, Octavo, 236 pages, illustrated from appropriate photographs, book cover etc.

    It is the previously unpublished letters that make it for Voyager. The intellectual battle for humour, the banter the ribbing, the intensity, and the soul bared is special. Hemingway holds nothing back reading stream of consciousness [he did not like it] so Joyce et al get a quiet pasting. Zelda arises in the background Hemingway’s view strongly that she held back the great SFG and man who could have been America’s greatest writer.

    Fitzgerald and Hemingway – intimately.

    $40.00

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  • “The Arabian Nights” – The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night & The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and A Night – 16 Volumes Complete – Sir Richard Francis Burton

    To many, one of the greatest men to live in the Victorian era Sir Richard Francis Burton- Adventurer, Explorer, Linguist extraordinaire… originally published the first ten volume work in 1885 and the additional six volumes between 1886 and 1888.

    Criticised and acclaimed Burton did not hold back exposing the sexual imagery in the source texts and further emphasising by adding extensive footnotes and appendices on Oriental sexual more.

    Because of strict laws on obscene material these volumes were printed privately for subscribers only by “The Burton Club” – this set circa 1910.

    Collectable and gift worthy. A trifle rubbed here and there and the gilt spines a little light affected – otherwise a super and substantial set.

    Heavy and obviously large in scale – a postage supplement will be required, at cost, dependent on the location of the purchaser … please enquire – it will be worthwhile

    The whole of the Arabian Nights in captivating Burton Language.

    $540.00

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  • Happy Valley – Patrick White

    Happy Valley – Patrick White

    Nobel Laureate Patrick White had Happy Valley published in the UK in 1939. During his life he refused to allow the book to be re-published. So, it took to this issue published by the unusual Text Publishing of Melbourne in 2012 for it to appear as a second edition.

    Octavo, 407 pages plus catalogue, decorative endpapers. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

    White had spent time at a station in New South Wales as a jackaroo. He was not cut out for it. Nevertheless, the experience provided rather useful in writing this book … he had lived a colourful life to that stage and that would continue. Drawing on writers he had met and admired – Joyce, Woolf, DHL etc this is a complex novel of an exceptional standard.

    Patrick White and his Happy Valley full of character and intrigue.

    $40.00

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  • Biggles Buries the Hatchet – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1958

    Biggles Buries the Hatchet – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1958

    Sought after Biggles first edition one that is hard to come by. Published by Brokhampton Press in 1958. Octavo, blue boards, 184 pages plus catalogue with the usual ticks. Has the Brock Books image lower spine and number “52” as required of the first. Dust jacket chipped and worn through front end back flap part missing. Full page coloured illustration from the omnipresent Leslie Stead

    Erich von Stalhein escapes from prison behind the Iron Curtain. An event which brings Biggles into conflicts with his arch enemy.

    Biggles First but not the first encounter with von Stalein!

    SO SORRY SOLD

    $40.00

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  • Biggles and The Poor Rich Boy – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1961

    Biggles and The Poor Rich Boy – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1961

    The true first edition not the orange board Hampton copy often disguised as a first. This published by Brockhampton Press in 1961.

    Octavo, brown boards, dust jacket with “Brock Books” at base of spine and numbering system “58” above. 182 pages, plus catalogue [annotated in hand], coloured frontispiece, the odd line illustration by the usual Leslie Stead. A little age, really very good with a great example of the dust jacket.

    The entire British police force cannot find twelve-year-old Carlo Salvatore who has been kidnapped. Biggles and his chums come to the rescue – a trip to Scotland is required.

    Scarce Biggles First in good condition and in Scotland

    SO SORRY SOLD

    $50.00

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