Deco Period Collectables

Wild Geese – Martha Orstenso – 1926 First Photoplay Edition

A very good first Photoplay [movie connected] edition published in 1926 by Grosset and Dunlap. Octavo, 256 pages, superb dust jacket and beneath that striking pictorial boards. Designs by H.o.H … not sure who that was?

This is a special edition with images from the silent movie made from this book directed by Phil Stone and released in 1927.

An Epic of the Northern Frontier, the prairies of northern Manitoba, and packed with living character.Regarded as a new standard in Modernist writing … love, tyranny, destruction and survival ….

A special book of the era

$50.00

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Jack O’Lantern – George Goodchild – First Edition 1930 – Dust Jacket Designed by “Gene”

First edition published by The Mystery League in 1930. Scarce and in very good condition albeit the dust jacket chipped at the corners and spine ends … but what a beauty

Jack O’Lantern the cleverest of criminals ever to pit his wits against the machinery for man-finding! Superb entertainment and the “Gene” Art Deco dust jacket a Voyager favourite.

Could anyone beat Jack O’Lantern?

$60.00

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Not Proven – Bruce Graeme – First Edition 1935 – Scarce

Very scarce first edition crime novel from 1935 published by Hutchinson, London.

Part of the Superintendent Stevens and Inspector Pierre Allain series .. and following on from his novel of earlier in 1935 … Satan’s Mistress.

Octavo, 286 pages and one page catalogue. Red cloth covered boards with black designs and titling to front and spine, a pretty good dust jacket. A very good copy of a near impossible to get first edition.

Based in London, a well thought after, but regarded as a bit peculiar, detective comes home early to find his wife with a French lover … she does not know he has spotted her in action – so to speak. Ravaged with jealousy he plans the perfect murder, and carries it out with some triumph … but he does not account for the arrival of Pierre Allain from Paris. By a series of ingenious deductions and unusual police work Allain nails his man … but it doesn’t quite end as you would think … au reviour! We love it!

Bruce Graeme was a “nom de plume” of Graham Montague Jeffries (1900-1982).

Rare crime first edition 1935.

$60.00

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La Princesse de Cleves – Madame de la Fayette – With Aquarelle by Edith Follet – 1920′s

The original novel was published anonymously in 1678. This is the stunning 1920’s production by Nilsson, Paris and contains ten striking tipped in aquarelles (watercolours) as well as the beautiful front cover by Edith Follet.

In the French language, quarto soft covers, 186 pages in very good condition. All the aquarelle bright and clean.

La Princesse de Cleves is regarded by many as the first psychological novel and is now a classic. The story takes place between 1558 and 1559 at the Royal Court of Henry II of France. The novel reflects that era with precision. The characters mainly (apart from the heroine) represent real individual and the events that unfold are faithful to the historical record.

Striking beautiful illustrations by Follet – would make a beautiful gift ….

$120.00

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Candide: or, the Optimist – Voltaire – With Six Striking Full Page Watercolours [Aquarelles]

Voltaire [nom de plume for Francois-Marie Arouet the great 18thC French philosopher and satirist] wrote Candide in three days in the year 1759. It is hilarious and has inspired many comedic scribes.

Martin Seymour-Smith [poet and literary critic] regarded Candide as one of “The 100 Most influential Books Ever Written”. He was right.

This beautiful edition from the 1920’s published in Paris on the Champs-Elysees. It contains six unusual and striking aquarelles (watercolours) by Robert Polack.

Candide Beautifully Illustrated- French

$140.00

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Strange Interlude – Eugene O’Neil – A Pulitzer Prize Winning Play – 1928

Published in 1928 by the up market Boni & Liveright, New York. A reprint same year as the first.

Large thick octavo, 362 pages, decorative end papers, green cloth covered boards with simple gilt decoration and author’s faux signature. Striking Art Deco dust jacket – a few nibbles but really good. A super copy overall.

The great American play of its day. Later a film with Clark Gable. Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Experimental in nature, presented in nine acts, and uses the technique known as soliloquy [where the actor speaks directly to the audience about their inner thoughts. Nina, the main character looses her husband in World War I. She embarks on a series of relationships and her attitude / approach to life and desires and pains are explored.

A superb gift for the theatre lover – almost 100 years old.

$60.00

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Wild Geese – Martha Orstenso – 1926 First Photoplay Edition

Jack O’Lantern – George Goodchild – First Edition 1930 – Dust Jacket Designed by “Gene”

Not Proven – Bruce Graeme – First Edition 1935 – Scarce

La Princesse de Cleves – Madame de la Fayette – With Aquarelle by Edith Follet – 1920′s

Candide: or, the Optimist – Voltaire – With Six Striking Full Page Watercolours [Aquarelles]

Strange Interlude – Eugene O’Neil – A Pulitzer Prize Winning Play – 1928

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