Fiction

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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A Sort of Life – Graham Greene – First Edition 1971

Published by The Bodley Head, London a first edition 1971 in very good condition.

Autobiography of Greene’s earlier years.

He was almost permanently drunk during his final year at Oxford and seems quite proud of it … and he touches on a bit of spying and some writing success and failure and borrowing money from his mother. Amusing, informative and the shape of things to come … we like it ….

A Sort of Life – which we could all aspire to….

$30.00

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Australian Poetry 1956 – Selected by A.A. Phillips

Published by Angus and Robertson in 1956, first edition.

Hardcover, with dust jacket, 80 pages, a tiny bit of age still very good – a good year 1956.

43 poems by the best pens of the day … including Randolph Stow [Sea Children]; Vivian Smith [Myth and Last Summer]; Harold Stewart [Orpheus and the Trees]; Douglas Stewart [Sarcochilus Fitgeraldi and Lyrebird] … and more good ones … our favourite probably Sea Children … well we have a soft spot for R Stow.

1956 a good year for poetry – all in one place.

$25.00

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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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Wild Geese – Martha Orstenso – 1926 First Photoplay Edition

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

A Sort of Life – Graham Greene – First Edition 1971

Australian Poetry 1956 – Selected by A.A. Phillips

Not Proven – Bruce Graeme – First Edition 1935 – Scarce

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

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