Fiction

Biggles Secret Agent – Captain W.E. Johns

Published in 1974 by White Lion. A reissue of an early Biggles, originally first published in 1940 by Brockhampton Press.

Octavo, 184 pages, ever so slightly evenly toned, couple of little closed nicks to the dust jacket. A very good copy by Biggles standards … they were well read.

Biggles and his side-kick Ginger parachute into Lucrania in search of the missing Professor Beklinder. Usual exciting and hazardous events enuse.

Biggles plays his “Trump Card” in Lucrania.

$30.00

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Complete Set – The London Aphrodite – Literary Periodical (in Six Parts) – Ed. Jack Lindsay and P.R. Stephensen.

Six original publications of Jack Lindsay’s London based Franfrolico Press, published in 1929. Banned in the USA for alleged obscenity … quite tame and very artistic really.

Nearly 500 pages in total. A pot-pourri of Australian and European literary and artistic talent. Norman Lindsay contributed with his unusual imagery. Octavo, card covered, some age but generally a good and importantly complete set. Occasionally black and white plates and scattered vignettes by Norman Lindsay. Literary contributions from Aldous Huxley, Norma Douglas, Liam O’Flaherty, Sacheverell Sitwell and other icons of the pen.

Aphrodite – all of them and a wonderful read.

$190.00

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Avanapu – A Novel Set in Bougainville -Nari Watkins – Signed by the Author

First edition, 1973, only ever soft cover. Published by Trinity Press, Rabaul a fact which, in itself, makes this book very special.

Octavo, 230 pages, decorated covers as seen. Showing some age but a good pleasing copy of this PNG rarity.

The story of the Hamilton family pioneers of Laua Avanapua plantation in Bougainville. Based in the years leading up to and during WWII. Narianna the daughter of Elspeth and Ivo Hamilton is a central character. The Japanese invade and it all gets complicated … as we know.

Inside the back cover we get an explanation as to how the author got her name, an aboriginal word and associated with islands off Western Australia and Samarai … the latter surely one of the most beautiful spots in the World.

Unusual novel based people and events around Bougainville during Japanese occupation in WWII.

$40.00

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Malory’s – Chronicles of King Arthur – 3 Volumes

Published by the Folio Society in 1982. Three volumes in original slipcase. Octavo, 292,348 and 262 pages. Blue cloth covered bindings decorated in red and gold. A super looking production.

Introductions and explanations by experts Sue Bradbury and Kevin Crossley-Holand and nice lino-cuts by Edward Bawden.

The Chronicles comprise … The Tale of King Arthur; Sir Tristam de Lyonesse and The Morte D’Arthur.

The legendary tales were first put down in one place by George of Monmouth in the early thirteen century. In the fifteenth century Sir Thomas Malory produced the definitive work completed in 1470, This was at the time Caxton really got going with his printing press so Malory’s work was destined to be promoted and preserved. Naturally, the language and expression of Malory’s writing reflects the period and “modern” writers have edited the text to be readable nowadays.

What would King Arthur think of a boxed set?

$140.00

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To Greenland’s Icy Mountains – Eve Garnett – First Edition 1968

A semi fictionalised account of Hans Egede, Explorer and Missionary who in the early 18thC went in search of the descendants of 10thC Christians who went to the West Coast of Greenland.

Egede was in Greenland between 1797-1718. The author makes Egede’s story come alive as if it was yesterday.

Published by Heinemann, London in 1968, a first edition. Octavo, 190 pages, well illustrated with frontispiece portrait, sketches by the author and images from appropriate photographs, maps and charts. Good condition albeit front free end paper excised.

Inspirational Greenland Story

$25.00

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Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway’s classic book on the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. Contemplates the nature of fear and courage.

Large sized octavo, 358 pages, plus bibliographical note. Eighty one reproductions from photographs.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1966. A very good copy in a super example of the dust jacket

A Bullfighters Delight.

$70.00

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Biggles Secret Agent – Captain W.E. Johns

Complete Set – The London Aphrodite – Literary Periodical (in Six Parts) – Ed. Jack Lindsay and P.R. Stephensen.

Avanapu – A Novel Set in Bougainville -Nari Watkins – Signed by the Author

Malory’s – Chronicles of King Arthur – 3 Volumes

To Greenland’s Icy Mountains – Eve Garnett – First Edition 1968

Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway

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