Australian Rare

Tasmanian Literary Landmarks [Identites] – Giordano and Norman

Only edition of this very interesting and handy book on a number [29] of the best Tasmanian writers starting at the very beginning – finishing before the modern age.

Published by Shearwater Press, Hobart in 1984. Softcover, perfect bound, 202 pages, some useful illustrations … the best of which, in our mind, is the house that Alan Villiers was brought up at … 318 Liverpool Street, Hobart.

We have just decided to get something by everyone of them … book collecting has to be a passion or is it obsession … some kind of “ssion” anyway.

Nothing compares with this work – it will be a while before AI [or SI] catches up.

$30.00

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[Australian Poetry] The Lee Shore – John Couper

Published by Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1979, who did so much for Australian poetry and poets.

Soft cover but with a stiff paper jacket – upmarket presentation. Octavo, 90 pages – fours groups titles as to group … Versions of Horace; A Few Nice Letters to John Dunmore Lang; Elegies and Executions and Shade Across a Summer.

Witty and satiric with an intellectual shine … not only Horace but we have references to Villon [see our Villon] and Wordsworth – seemingly as savage as Swift … big shoe

The Lee Shore – a full course and fine meal.

$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 Pair of Jacks [Two Tasmanian “Diggers” exploits in WWI] – J.C. Sheppard – Signed by Author.

A novelised account of the authors father, Jack Sheppard [born at Ranelagh in the Huon Valley] and Jack Doderidge [from Koonya on the Tasman Peninsula].

Self-published by the author in 2015, octavo, 258 pages. Super near fine condition. We can only find print on demand copies. This not so as it’s signed by the Author to Maria.

The author is not Hemingway, but nevertheless we find this book lively, information and entertaining when allowed. After all there are some tricky times including an enforced stay at Stalag 13C.

Novelised based on the true story of two Jacks from Tasmania.

$40.00

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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef – Arthur Upfield – First UK Edition 1960

Published by Heinemann, Lonon in 1960, a first UK edition. Octavo, 247 pages. Jacket a bit rubbed still a nice copy of perhaps our favourite Upfield / Bonaparte book. Dust jacket design by Bill Morden.

A fishing boat disappears along with its four occupants. It all happens in the New South Wales game fishing grounds – something the author was familiar with.

A skull is found by a passing trawler. Our Favourite police inspector, “Bony” Bonaparte is called in, and the “mystery” is unravelled.

Based on a true story the disappearance of geologist Lamont Younger at Mystery Bay, NSW in 1880

True mystery behind this entertaining Upfield “fishy” mystery.

$80.00

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Man of Two Tribes – Arthur Upfield – First Edition 1956

A scarce first edition published by Heinemann in 1956. Octavo, 214 pages.

Despite the title the book starts with an acquitted murderess walking off a train in the Nullarbor Plain. Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte sets out on camel etc to find her. What he finds is even more strange than this strange beginning.

Upfield challenges Bony’s talents in the dreaded Nullabor Plain

$80.00

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Tasmanian Literary Landmarks [Identites] – Giordano and Norman

[Australian Poetry] The Lee Shore – John Couper

Australian Poetry – The Fabulous Dross – Thomas Naisby.

A Pair of Jacks [Two Tasmanian “Diggers” exploits in WWI] – J.C. Sheppard – Signed by Author.

The Mystery of Swordfish Reef – Arthur Upfield – First UK Edition 1960

Man of Two Tribes – Arthur Upfield – First Edition 1956

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