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The Box with Broken Seals – E Phillips Oppenheim -1920

A 1920 edition published by A L Burt, New York having been first issued the year before. Very difficult to find in its dust jacket and a great example.

Octavo, 300 pages, plus publisher’s catalogue.

Set against the backdrop of WWI secret despatches have gone missing. English Secret Service operative James Crawshay is on the job with American Sam Hobson tagging along. A fast moving dangerous plot.

The fate of WWI is up for grabs.

$80.00

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What Happened to Forester – E Phillips Oppenheim – Scarce First Edition 1930

A first edition published by Little Brown, Boston in 1930.

Octavo, 260 pages, in better than very good condition – still with its original wrap around yellow promotional slip.

A series of ten interconnecting short stories about the strange goings on concerning the disappearance of Major Andrew Forester retired from the army. A dashing chap who likes adventure and skirts the law.

Lots of conspiracy and dark characters.

Scarce and well presented Oppenheim

$140.00

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Up the Ladder of Gold – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1931

A first US edition published by Little Brown, Boston in 1931 one year after the UK First.

Dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse – “To my friend “Plum” Wodehouse – who tells me what I can scarcely believe, that he enjoys my stories as much as I do his”.

Octavo, 312 pages, overall a very good copy albeit a couple of edge chips and some age to the dust jacket.

“The amazing story of the man who made war impossible” Protagonist Warren Rand is a mysterious businessman of dimensions to more than rival Murdoch. He controls newsprint, dominates stock markets and world economies … buys more gold than they can dig up … until his real purpose is revealed!

Oppenheim with an underlying message that resonates today

$90.00

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Folding Georgian Guinea Scales c1805

A very good set of early Guinea Scales with contemporary instructions label. Manufactured Stephen Houghton who took over from Anthony Wilkinson at Ormskirk, Lancashire. Wilkinson had died in 1804. We have two very good examples this probably the best.

Self-erecting and known generally as the Lancashire Gold Balance. The brass beam is rectangular in section and has a hinged “turn and swing” overweight which counter poises the beam for the guinea or half-guinea. Once folded the end-button release mechanism sets and releases nicely.

A small rectangular sliding weight on the load arm registers in graduations to show discrepancies in of under-weight coins.

The collapsing mechanism makes the whole entirely portal in the gentleman’s trouser.

Functioning Georgian Gold Sovereign Scale

$190.00

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The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition – An Account of the Crossing of The Continent of Australia from Cooper’s Creek to Carpentaria.

High quality faithful facsimile of the rare Burke and Wills publication of 1861 – Reprinted from “The Argus”.

Published by the Libraries Board of South Australia in 1963. Octavo, ive, 36 pages, folding map. Bound in deep blue leatherette, gilt titles to spine. Neat ownership signature to front ends – distinguished collector.

A super copy of this key exploration account, excellent multi-folding [vertical] map of the Track … of Burke, Wills, King and Gray and the course of Howitt and party to trace the remains of the Expedition.

Burke and Wills perished but not forgotten

$75.00

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The Green Bay Tree – Louis Bromfield – 1926

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York in 1926 having been first published two years earlier. Octavo, 341 pages, absolutely super condition in a complete and very decorative dust jacket.

No one really knows any one else. There is always a part that remains secret and hidden, concealed to the deepest part of the soul. An epic saga like novel based around the lives of Julia Shane and her two daughters in rapidly changing times.

Louis Bromfield (1896-1956) on of the great American authors of the first half of the 20thC. After returning to America as a WWI hero he took to writing and this book was the first great success among many. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. He was also a framer and conservationist, his Malabar Farm in Ohio is magnificent and supported by an active Foundation today. Bromfield mixed with many of the movers and shakers of the day. Bogart and Bacall were married at Malabar Farm.

$50.00

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The Box with Broken Seals – E Phillips Oppenheim -1920

What Happened to Forester – E Phillips Oppenheim – Scarce First Edition 1930

Up the Ladder of Gold – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1931

Folding Georgian Guinea Scales c1805

The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition – An Account of the Crossing of The Continent of Australia from Cooper’s Creek to Carpentaria.

The Green Bay Tree – Louis Bromfield – 1926

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