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The Four Stragglers [Thriller] – Frank Packard – First Edition 1923

Published by Burt, New York in 1923. Octavo, 303 pages, dust jacket art by A D Rahn. Light jacket creasing, otherwise, a super copy.

Frank Packard was a prolific Canadian writer who started off as an engineer on the railroads. Several of his books became movies.

Captain Francis Newcombe (also known as Shadow Varne) and three other crooks lead a complex and criminally exciting path from the London underworld to the USA.

Shadow plots within plots

$50.00

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The Rueful Mating – G.B. Stern – First Edition 1932

A First Edition 1932 published by Knopf New York as one of their Borzoi Books.

Octavo, 567 pages. A little age brought about by the uncut edges. The dust jacket is a collectable piece of art deco imagery along with the unique Borzoi end papers.

A romance of Shakespearean proportions – some trials and tribulations along the way – ending in laughter and the wrong bed.

Art Deco Romance.

$50.00

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Rainbow Round My Shoulder [The Blue Trail of the Black Ulysses] – Howard Odum – 1928

With special illustrations by Harry Knight.

The scarce Grosset & Dunlap dated 1928. Large octavo, 323 pages. A couple of nicks to the dust jacket, otherwise a very good copy

An African American tells of his wanderings through 40 States over 20 years. Written in the vernacular. Rare, unusual maybe of or maybe ahead of its time up to interpretation.

1928 edition thought provoking

$60.00

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The Hunted – Albert Guerard – First Edition 1944

First Edition published by Alfred Knopf, New York in 1944. Octavo, 288 pages. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. A very good if not fine copy.

Albert Guerard was in the US Army when this book was published. It was his second novel of the published in his lifetime. He also published many works on literary criticism. Educated at Stanford and Harvard he would go on to be Professor of Literature at Stanford after the whole and was highly influential in developing the Stanford program in modern writing. His father also an author held the same position.

the author was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1956 and received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Literature in 1964.

The Hunted is a physiological thriller. Claire Harcha, a singing waitress of New England marries a Cambridge English graduate (an odd ball). She becomes ostracised from the fraternity group and sympathetic to a hunted violent outlaw “Bomber”.

First edition 1944 – distinguished author.

$70.00

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The Boy Biggles – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1968

First edition 1968 published by Dean, London. Octavo, 182 pages, dust jacket edge chips, internally very good and clean.

Retrospective of Biggles early life in India where nerves are tested, thugs and intruders abound, and a Foolish Tiger mixes with the Big Bad Bear.

Scarce Biggles in his early and no less adventurous years

$30.00

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Australian Poetry – Apocalypse in Springtime – Lex Banning – 1956

A first edition of what we believe is Lex Banning’s final published collection

Arthur Alexander [Lex] Banning (1921-1965) had a difficult upbringing. He has cerebral palsy to an extent that he had little control over his arms. His studies could only be completed by dictation. Thoughtful and thought provoking and some hard reality.

Slim octavo, published by Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1956. 34 pages. Top of decorative dust jacket a tiny bit damaged as it is cut just too large for the book. Otherwise, a very good copy.

Lex Banning had something to say …

$25.00

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