20th Century Classics

Norman Lindsay – Redheap – ABC Script to the 1972 Production – part of a theme “Norman Lindsay Theatre” broadcast in that year.

A distinguished cast was assembled including Kate Fitzpatrick as Hetty, Peter Flett as Robert Piper, John Waters, June Salter etc many who went on to have long television careers and also Pamela Stephenson (now Lady Pamela) as the raunchy Millie Kneebone.

Typescript foolscap – 138 pages, normal wear through use but in perfectly acceptable condition for its type. The odd note and doodle on the back of some pages …. Waiting in television can be a drain.

Adapted from Norman Lindsay’s famous novel Redheap. Famous for being banned in Australia – published in 1930 by Faber in London it was not allowed in Australia until 1958! A bit naughty seemingly but more so because Readheap is really the town of Creswick and the characters were well real people displaying their real lives and inhibitions. Seemingly, Norman used his bothers diaries for research – the family could well have been involved in the ban.

The “rehearsal script” here for sale makes for a good read with all the extra colour that is added from the flat novel. Front page described as EP 2 but content flips back and forward with scenes from episodes 1,2 and 3 maybe predominantly 2 – not sure. Makes for a lively reading with accidental flash back and forward – if you understand that process.

A most interesting and scarce piece of Lindsay ephemera that you are likely to come across.

Readheap – not for the town of Creswick – Lindsay at his most provocative.

$390.00

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Biggles of the Interpol – Capt. W.E. Johns

Scarce first edition Biggles published by the Brockhampton Press in 1957.

Octavo, 181 pages, four full page exciting illustrations and a T.E. Lawrence like coloured frontispiece. A little age and a trifle foxing, pretty good and rare dust jacket.

A collection of Biggles short stories – with our man in Arabia, Brazil and French Guinea- diamonds and thugs add to the various contrivances.

Biggles outperforms the baddies and the goodies in various exotic locations

$50.00

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Biggles in The Cruise of the Condor – Capt. W.E. Johns

The Cruise of the Condor was one of the first Biggles in the 1930’s. This edition by Thames mid 1950’s.

Octavo, 247 pages (a lengthy Biggles) in very good condition in a nice dust jacket albeit with a chip to bottom front.

Biggles and his cohorts use an amphibious aircraft in Brazil seeking treasure and danger – a normal day for Biggles.

Biggles in Brazil – exciting adventures

$25.00

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Mother Goose and Her Friends – Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe – Maude Radford Warren and Eve Davenport – illustrated by Charles Federer

Absurdly wonderful book of tales, published by Hodder & Stoughton, first English edition 1923. Large thick octavo, 309 pages, with ten tipped in coloured plates, fancy end papers, coloured plate pasted to front board. A trifle age – really a super copy, by any standards very good for a book now over a century old.

Traditional children’s stories with no prejudice and positive messages and lots of fun. Old King Cole was a merry old soul and Simple Simon’s pieman had a very large pie on his head.

Stories for children that pass the test of time

$50.00

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Orchids for Biggles – Captain W.E. johns – First Edition 1962

Published by the Brockhampton Press in 1962, a first edition.

Octavo, 168 pages, coloured frontispiece “Sorry, old boy …”, a preety good copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket. Biggles list at back ticked off by an enthusiast.

Top secret documents are missing along with a nuclear research scientist who is demanding a million dollars for their return. Unfortunately they have gone to the Peruvian jungle “among the orchids”. Biggles and his team will sort it al out …

Biggles … too busy to small the orchids.

$60.00

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

First edition published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1964. Octavo, 192 pages with the stunning wrap around dust jacket designed by Hans Tisdall. The font Tisdall invented for this purpose carries his name.

Very good condition with minor mark to front of jacket, otherwise very clean and no dust jacket nibbles. Terrific internally.

Written by Hemingway in his final days before he took his life so tragically. The draft was in his bedroom and published posthumously.

Tells of Hemingway’s early years in Paris with his young bride (1921-1926) and the people (what people) he associated with … Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Scott Fitzgerald … do we need to go on?

“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 delightful Hemingway – First Edition

$160.00

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Norman Lindsay – Redheap – ABC Script to the 1972 Production – part of a theme “Norman Lindsay Theatre” broadcast in that year.

Biggles of the Interpol – Capt. W.E. Johns

Biggles in The Cruise of the Condor – Capt. W.E. Johns

Mother Goose and Her Friends – Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe – Maude Radford Warren and Eve Davenport – illustrated by Charles Federer

Orchids for Biggles – Captain W.E. johns – First Edition 1962

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

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