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Poems by Charles Kingsley – 1884 – Superb Fine Binding Deep Blue Leather

Published by Macmillan. London in 1884 and bound in deep blue polished calf with five raised bands to spine separate red leather title label and elaborate gilt work to each compartment, gilt outline to boards, marbled endpapers and edges etc – really nice.

Charles Kingsley was a priest in the Church of England. A friend of Darwin and early supporter of the theory of evolution (Darwin mentions his view in later editions). Author of the Water Babies and Westward Ho and a collection of beautiful poems, songs and ballads beautifully presented here.

Victorian Poetry bound in blue

$90.00

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The Possessed – Dostoyevsky

Published by Modern Library a 1940′s copy in a very presentable dust jacket.

Dostoyevsky followed “Crime and Punishment” with another monumental and direct attack on the danger of Nihilism. This edition contains a translation of the suppressed chapter for the first time

Should be Possessed!

$30.00

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Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

The first novel was of course Don Quixote – Ozell’s revision of the Motteux translation. A Giant of a book about a Giant of a Man

Fear no Windmills

$30.00

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Legendes d’Orient et d’Occident – Edouard Schure – Hand Coloured Illustrations by Maggy Monier

Published Paris in the 1920′s and in the French language beautifully illustrated with hand coloured plates by Maggy Monier.

In original beautifully illustrated wrappers. Rather browned throughout in the text but the tipped in striking illustrations are bright and clean as new.

Edouard Schure (1841-1929) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist and publicist of esoteric literature.

No better illustrations

$140.00

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The Housekeepers Daughter – Clarke

Be warned you might find this book rather frank (1940’s style) gay and full blooded the city counterpart of the farmer’s daughter who gets more than her share of Greenwich Village love.

Racy war edition – usual evenly browned paper for 1944 – dust jacket superb condition.

$50.00

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The Fire Stick – A Tale of Australian Bush Life – Merri, Wulla – 1893

The Fire Stick

Incidents in the Shearer’s Strike – A Tale of Australian Bush Life – Merri, Wulla – 1893 An important anti-union novel, allegedly written by the politician John Cameron under a pseudonym and based on the Shearer’s Strike inQueenslandin the early 1890’s. The pictorial image on the front board is of a woolshed being burnt down. Very good condition and an important item in any Australiana collection.

Shearers Strike 1890’s good condition

$90.00

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