20th Century Classics

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Octavo, 255 pages, published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & New York in 1960. Very good near fine condition.

The collectable first book club edition with all the points covered – photo of the author by Truman Capote on the rear, vivid yellow colour to top edge, Jonathan Daniels review inside dust jacket.

Harper Lee’s classic – it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. For many years her only novel – something maybe makes us wish that was still the case.

Collectable and gift worthy

$180.00

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Australian Poetry 1959 – Selected by Nancy Keesing

Published by Angus and Robertson, in 1959 – their annual celebration of Australian poetry selected by the well qualified Nancy Kessing.

Octavo, 96 pages and near as many poems by the likes of Douglas Stewart, Vincent Buckley, Mary Finnin, Mary Gilmore and Peter Hopegood.

Super selection, perhaps our favourite by Olive Pell – “I don’t give a damn’ …. But we do of course.

Australian Poetry 1959 a super year for it!

$25.00

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Australian Poetry – The Hooded Lamp – Roland Robinson

Published by poetry experts Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1976 a first and only edition.

Born Irish but came to Australia at the age of nine, Roland Robinson [192-1992] is recognised as one of Australis’s great poets.

This book of verse is the eighth published by Robinson since his first in 1944 when enlisted.

A lyrical writer in touch with the Australian landscape and its spiritual significance to aboriginals.

Winner of numerous literary awards.

Octavo, 56 pages, 42 poems in total

Roland Robinson maybe out there by himself in his era.

$30.00

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Australian Poetry – The Fabulous Dross – Thomas Naisby.

Published by poetry experts Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1979 a first and only edition.

Nice, neat production, octavo,70 pages with 70 poems written in an unusual, vigorous stimulating style. Titled the Fabulous Dross which is one group of poems – also a second group named Upper Allyn [with a Coda from Orange] … and a third named Beginnings. We like Fable; Four Creeks and Smokescreen respectively in each.

Thomas Naisby [1931-1989] was born in Sunderland England and came to Australia permanently in 1955.

Gift worthy Australian poetry by Naisby

$25.00

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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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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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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Australian Poetry 1959 – Selected by Nancy Keesing

Australian Poetry – The Hooded Lamp – Roland Robinson

Australian Poetry – The Fabulous Dross – Thomas Naisby.

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

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

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