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Tasmanian Writers – 10 Short Stories – 1969

Soft cover published by Fullers Bookshop, Hobart in 1969. A nice copy – carries the bookplate of Tassie lover R. C. Hutchinson.

Octavo, perfect bound, 88 pages. Ten super stories by writers of the day including three by Hobart Jazz Legend Tom Pickering.

Sort Stories by Tasmanian Writers of the 1960’s

$25.00

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The Clue of the Leather Noose – Donald Bayne Hobart – First Edition 1929

A first edition in immaculate condition published by Whitman, Wisconsin in 1929. Condition is just something for nearly 100 years old. Octavo, 254 pages.

The murder scene is the “Boardwalk” which we think is at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The boardwalk had rather unusual pus cars that posh people could sit in and be pushed around by the less posh – we have an image of it so you can see what it’s like.

Anyway, this murder mystery starts of at a pace with several characters appearing some out of nowhere – jealousy appears before all that and a rather unusual gruesome murder. Will it be solved – well it always is.

The odd little bit of strange typesetting which adds to the fun … and a dust jacket design that made our day.

1929 Murder Classic on the Boardwalk.

$120.00

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A Moveable Feast – Hemingway True First Edition -1964 Predates American Edition by one day

“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”.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1964. Octavo, 192 pages.

A bit of age to the jacket, see image, and a previous owner has kindly spot pasted an article about the Shakespeare an Co bookshop in Paris which features in AMF being a favourite Hemingway haunt – as well as Joyce, Pound etc. otherwise very clean, top edge stained red as required. Still a very good example.

Collectable Hemingway First Edition – our favourite book.

$120.00

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Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 2003

A very nice copy of the first edition published by Bloomsbury in 2003.

Another complex and sometimes challenging narrative by Margaret Atwood. The story begins with the central character “Snowman” sleeping in a tree with only an old bedsheet. He has lost his beloved Oryx and his friend Crake and is slowly starving. He tries to piece together his haunting memories … the narrative moves decades earlier and takes a double journey back to Crake’s high-tech bubble dome where the Paradice Project unfolded.

Large thick octavo, 378 pages, a very good copy.

Atwood’s stunning narrative and the Paradice Project.

$35.00

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The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood – First Edition 1993

A very good copy of this substantial novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Bloomsbury, London in 1993. Described as her best work to date and this comes after The Handmaid’s Tale.

Large thick octavo, 470 pages, silk ribbon marker, dust jacket in good condition, internally very clean.

As would be expected a complex novel of the supernatural sort. Zenia has caused her three friends all sorts of problems including stealing their menfolk. Now she is dead and they have attended her funeral maybe things will go better. Not so.

Margaret Atwood First and a complex rewarding narrative .

$35.00

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The Bandit “El Caballero” – Leslie Charteris

A 1952 edition of an early Leslie Charteris thriller published by Ward Lock, London.

Octavo, 255 pages, super dust jacket albeit, roughed at top and edge, forgive it for its rarity.

Charteris had not really got into his “Saint” stride before this book which is centres on a South American modern-day bandit – Ramon Francisco De Castilla Y Espronceda also known as “El Caballero” … “The Knight”. To complicate things further Scotland Yard knew him as “The Cat” …. After his prowling habit.

Flashy crime, besotted entanglements ensue.

Charteris in the same world but with different characters.

$50.00

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