Prestige Items

Gallipoli to the Somme – the Story of Charles. E.W. Bean – Dudley McCarthy – First edition 1983

The definitive relevant biography of Australia’s principal war correspondent of WWI. To say principal may even be understating his role if you have seen and read [a monumental task] Bean’s twelve thick volume work on Australians in the Great War.

Such a man requires quite a lengthy biography, 400 pages in total well illustrated from contemporary photographs.

Published by John Ferguson, Sydney in 1983 a first edition. Large octavo bound in grey leatherette, full dust jacket. A very good copy, excuse a bit of tape residue on the end papers. Internally super clean.

Understanding Charles Bean and how he went about documenting WWI.

$50.00

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Special Ephemeral item – The Wattle Grove Press – Newnham Tasmania – Promotional Item – 1960’s

The Wattle Grove Press at 69 George Town, Newnham, Tasmania published the books of Albin Eiger is limited edition.

Albin Eiger was the pen name of Professor Rolf Hennequel (1895-1971) who travelled the world before settling in Tasmania in 1951. The press commenced in the early 1960’s before illness forced its closure in 1969.

The works were so beautiful printed on rich hand-made paper with bold typescript, limitations varied but were extremely tight, sometimes a maximum of fifty.

This document is printed on the thickest of hand-made paper – has a vellum like feel. Large format 34 cm by 22 cm, printed only three pages printed one side only, folded.

It ends with and interesting note … “All books from our Press are printed, illustrated and bound by hand, and exhibit the advantages and, also disadvantages – which work of this kind is thought to possess in the machine age”.

And then references the Library National of France who have clearly taken a liking “the books of the W.G.P. are unique pieces of literature, and unique attempts at printing”

See our copy of “Paris” from the Wattle Grove Press.

Rare Tasmanian Private Press Ephemera – the Wattle Grove Press

$40.00

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A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway – True First Edition 1964 – Predates American Edition by one day – and best presented anyway

First Edition Hemingway, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1964. Octavo, 192 pages.

Unique wrap-around dust jacket design by Hans Tisdall – see below. A very good copy – gift condition.

Learn more about Hemingway in this story telling autobiographical work … finished in his final days.

“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”.

Scarce Collectable Hemingway First Edition

P.S. Hans Tisdall was the designer of the Hemingway Cape dust jackets. You can see why we like them at Voyager … they have Universal attraction. Tisdall (1910-1971) born in Germany was originally a textile designer and made his name at Edinburgh Weavers. Later in life he won awards for the design of the entryway to the Battersea Fun Park and was commissioned to produce dust jacket artwork for which he designed these distinctive brushstroke cursive fonts. Michael Harvey subsequently produced a new typeface base on this style named Tisdall Script.

$180.00

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$Madeira Spectroscopic, being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red half of the Solar Visible Spectrum with a Rutherford Diffraction Grating at Madeira in the Summer of 1881 – C Piazzi Smyth – Astronomer Royal Scotland – 1882.$

Madeira Spectroscopic, being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red half of the Solar Visible Spectrum with a Rutherford Diffraction Grating at Madeira in the Summer of 1881 – C Piazzi Smyth – Astronomer Royal Scotland – 1882.

Anyone who follows Voyager will know how much we adore Charles Piazzi Smyth read his wiki – too much for here. The Piazzi is after his Italian father-in-law and astronomer who influenced the Smyth family to set up their own observatory when CPS was very young. At near to sixteen he was off to South Africa to assist in astronomical experiments and it all expanded from there – his work of the Great Pyramid of Cheops is also something else.

Newton has written that the only way to improve the quality of astronomical images [having regard to size and quality of optics] was to take instruments higher in the atmosphere. CPS became an expert in this and pioneered trips to Teneriffe and Madeira to lug his instruments to higher ground – always accompanied by his knowledgeable wife. There we gave you a bit – like all these people of the times his brothers and sisters had similarly interesting lives.

Solar spectroscopy became a particular interest … as an aside he promoted the use of the Browning Rainband Spectroscope [we usually have one for sale]. At Madeira he went for the diffraction grating rather than prism combination. The results are scientific glory and nicely presented in this work published by Johnston, Edinburgh in 1882.

Square quarto, cloth binding with gilt rule and titles, 32 pages, 18 plates on in striking colour, vignette to title page. Some foxing but excuse it for its rarity, author and spot in astronomical history.

Charles Piazzi Smyth [1819-1900] top rank astronomer and pyramidologist.

$490.00

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Men without Women – Ernest Hemingway – 1955 Jonathan Cape Edition.

The hardest of the Jonathan Cape editions to find, and collectable because of that and the striking wrap around dust jacket by Hans Tisdal with his special font design.

This edition published in 1995 the second printing in this new crown format same year as the first of type. Octavo, 222 pages, a little age but excuse if for its rarity.

Maybe only Hemingway could choose this title for this collection of short stories encompassing every emotion.

Fourteen short stories including The Killers; A Simple Enquiry; An Alpine Idyll; Banal Story; Hills Like White Elephants and Che ti dice la Patria.

Reality of life from Hemingway – scarce edition

$120.00

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Vacuum Pump with Dome – Griffin and Tatlock c 1930 – Super Example

A very good working example of a vacuum hand pump, complete with glass dome from notable maker Griffin and Tatlock [a design by John Griffin]

Nice oak handle, the brass pump body retains its original lacquer, valve moves freely and pumps seals nicely. The glass dome with bell top handle is ground for contact with the pump base plate [in operation this would be grease/ vaseline sealed. There is a small chip to the inside rim but not impinging on the “sealability” of the instrument.

Carries the Griffin and Tatlock branding plaque. We can date this to around 1930 as John Griffin and sons merged with the distinguished Scottish form Baird and Tatlock circa 1925.

Dimensions approx. – 40 cm long 30 cm high and 18 cm wide. Not really suitable for overseas and will require a postage supplement dependent on buyer location.

Rare complete and working a genuine sucker.

$440.00

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Gallipoli to the Somme – the Story of Charles. E.W. Bean – Dudley McCarthy – First edition 1983

Special Ephemeral item – The Wattle Grove Press – Newnham Tasmania – Promotional Item – 1960’s

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway – True First Edition 1964 – Predates American Edition by one day – and best presented anyway

Madeira Spectroscopic, being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red half of the Solar Visible Spectrum with a Rutherford Diffraction Grating at Madeira in the Summer of 1881 – C Piazzi Smyth – Astronomer Royal Scotland – 1882.

Men without Women – Ernest Hemingway – 1955 Jonathan Cape Edition.

Vacuum Pump with Dome – Griffin and Tatlock c 1930 – Super Example

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