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Without Malice – Bruce Graeme – First Edition 1946.

A seriously spooky crime story from Bruce Graeme … pen name for Graham Montague Jeffries (1900-1982) a much loved and much published crime author. Published his first work in 1926 and his last in 1980 two years before his death.

Published by Hutchinson, London in October 1946. Octavo, 164 pages so along the lines of an “entertainment” than a full blown novel. Dust Jacket art superb. Very good condition.

The main character Detective Sergeant Marsh has a rather unusual murder to solve and the murderer could not be more unusual.

Without Malice – well maybe!

$50.00

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True at First Light – Ernest Hemingway (Introduced by Patrick Hemingway) – First Edition

Regarded by the London Times as “the most important book to appear in 1999″

A posthumously published work. Released in 1999 to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of Hemingway’s birth.

Relates to the 1953-54 safari to East Africa with his fourth wife. Part fiction part fact. Much controversy regarding its release. One school believing that Patrick’s indulgence in editing this unfinished work partly commercially driven. Hemingway lovers on the other hand happy to get some more words from the great man.

Published by Heinemann, 319 pages. A fine copy in near new condition.

Hemingway in Africa with some reality and some fantasy.

$35.00

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A Fringe of Leaves – Patrick White – First Edition 1976

A very good copy of Patrick White’s novelisation of what was the shipwreck of the Stirling Castle and the subsequent death of all of the survivors except fro Mrs Fraser who would live among the aboriginal people until rescued by a convict tracker.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1976. Octavo, 405 pages, super condition including the jacket. Sydney Nolan jacket art. White had received the Nobel Prize in 1973.

Nice copy of a collectable White edition based on Queensland survival fact.

$30.00

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The Girl Green as Elderflower – Randolph Stow – First Edition 1980

Another absolutely crisp, as if new first edition published by Secker & Warburg, London in 1980.

Octavo, 150 pages, dust jacket art by John Piper.

Randolph Stow had been awarded the Patrick White Award the previous year. White established the award from funds received form his Nobel Prize … good on him.

Following quickly after Visitants a quite different book by Stow. Previous work often dealing with the deterioration of an individual here we have the opposite. Crispin Claire has been badly afflicted by his time in the Tropics. Convalescing in Suffolk the environment provides nourishment. With improved strength he begins to write a narrative around three 12th Century local stories, and he finds himself moving between the present and the time of Richard the Lionheart. Beautifully and skillfully written.

Unusual and gripping story as can expected from Stow.

$50.00

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Cocktail Time – P.G. Wodehouse – First Edition 1958

First Edition 1958 of a sought-after Wodehouse.

Published by Herbert Jenkins, London. Octavo, 222 pages. In the preferred slightly chipped dust jacket all in pretty good condition, albeit some spots to page edges.

Frederick, Fifth Earl of Ickenham has a lot of things on his plate but he gets them (everybody) sorted with much hilarity.

Sought after Wodehouse – First Edition

$60.00

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Doctor in Love – Richard Gordan – First Edition 1957

Anyone who likes Wodehouse will love Richard Gordan and his series of “Doctor” books.

A first edition, published by Michael Joseph, London in 1957 edition, the fifth in the “Doctor” series.

Octavo, 188 pages, in very good condition.

“You can’t go about the country falling in love with girls at your age” … sage advice Grimsdyke gives to his friend Dr Gordon. Another “advisor” observes “the patients don’t like you messing about with their wives unless they know you’ve got one of your own at home”. Taking all this on board matters get complicated and … Dr Gordan finally gets his girl!

The right girls does turn up for Dr Gordan …

$30.00

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