Fiction

The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred Lord Tennyson

The most unusual and dramatic presentation of this high energy poem about the “Charge of the Light Brigade” against the Russian Batteries at Balaclava on 25th October 1854. It didn’t go well.

Landscape presentation with this unusual London Evening Star cover.

Published by Golden Press New York in collaboration with Paul Hamlyn in London in 1964. Unpaginated but twenty plus pages of verse strikingly illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen probably America’s best ever illustrators of book for young people … this one with a much more adult tone .. a work of art really.

Tennyson and his “Charge” best presentation

$40.00

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Who’s Who in D.H. Lawrence – Holderness

A first edition published in New York in 1976 by Taplinger.

We think this is a great idea and should be done for every great novelist – we have always struggled with retaining character recognition in lengthy or complex novels – the human-kind not the typescript. Tolstoy would be a good one – has anyone got to the end of War and Peace confident that the characters are firmly “slotted in” to one’s mind.

Anyway, here we have DHL and a pocket of literary paradise for the likes of Voyager.

D H Lawrence – characters on a plate

$30.00

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James Joyce’s Ulysses – Clive Hart

We doubt if there is any book ever published that requires more explanation and assistance on reading than Ulysses. Deliberately so. Joyce himself struggled with the corrections and many errors still remain – dependent what an error is in the context of Ulysses. Note that that should put anyone off reading the best mots confusing book of at least the 20th Century.

Octavo, 186 pages, very good condition Expert, Clive Hart published his work in 1968 through the Sydney University Press – part of their Sydney Studies in Literature series.

Ulysses by Hart – get it and understand it better

$30.00

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The Men That God Forgot – Richard Butler

First edition published by Hutchinson’s London in 1975. Octavo, 254 pages plus bibliography, end paper maps. Very good condition.

The most remote penal colony in the world was Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen’s Land. In 1833 after eleven years of misery it was decided to close it down and move the convicts to Port Arthur. Ten convicts were commissioned with the task of constructing a Brig to make the voyage around the coast. They saw their chance and seized the vessel and made their escape … but as always there is more to the story.

A well researched highly fact backed novelisation – super read.

The story of the final escape form Sarah’s Island through the Gates of Hell

$30.00

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Biggles of the Special Air Police – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean & Son, no date but early 1960’s. Octavo, 183 pages. Quite page toned internally otherwise clean. Dust jacket, edge wear but quite complete.

A Biggles collection including some of the earlier ones – our favourites include “the Blue Devil”, “the Case of the Too Successful Company” and “the White Fokker”. What is a “Balloonatic?”

Biggles a mixed bag of adventure

$20.00

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Murder Off Miami – A New Era in Crime fiction – Dennis Wheatley

Originally published in 1936 – this is a faithful 1980’s reproduction of this extraordinary work by Dennis Wheatley – murder planned by J.G. Links.

The most sinister death of multi-millionaire soap powder king Bolitho Blane on board the luxury yacht Golden Gull off Miami looks suspicious. Has he committed suicide or is foul play involved?

Here we have all the clues laid out in front of us in the form of a the law enforcement case file, the complexity and ingenuity of it all is a surprise in itself – it is guaranteed to leave you scratching your head until the end –

Showing bit of age – still a better than good copy – intact in every respect.

Nothing on google will assist you in working this one out – the sealed section is unbroken – do not break until you are absolutely exhausted.

$60.00

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The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who’s Who in D.H. Lawrence – Holderness

James Joyce’s Ulysses – Clive Hart

The Men That God Forgot – Richard Butler

Biggles of the Special Air Police – Captain W.E. Johns

Murder Off Miami – A New Era in Crime fiction – Dennis Wheatley

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