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  • The Hunchback of  Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

    Our favourite edition from the Modern Library published in the 1950′s. A very good dust jacket with sticking imagery.

    Written by Victor Hugo at the age of 29 and stands with Les Miserables as his most memorable work. Stirs the heart kindles the imagination.

    The Bells … oh the bells

    $40.00

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  • Emile Zola – Nana

    Emile Zola – Nana

    A classic from the Modern Library collection published in the 1950′s and in very good condition.

    Nana was banned in England on publication in 1888 for supposed obscenity. Zola the greatest influence on the school of “realistic” writing here demonstrated to perfection.

    Obscenity surely not

    $30.00

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  • Harold Effermere – A Story of the Queensland Bush – Michael Costello – First Edition 1897

    Harold Effermere – A Story of the Queensland Bush – Michael Costello – First Edition 1897

    Published by Swan Sonnenschien, London a first edition 1897. Octavo 309 pages in original green cloth covered binding with embossed design to front and git titling to spine. Showing some signs of age but still a very good copy of a rare work.

    A superb and rare late 19thC novel based in the Queensland bush – country horse race rigging at its best. A great Australian yarn.

    The author Michael Costello was the eldest son of pioneer, pastoralist and explorer John Costello. As a young lad the author often accompanied his dad on risky expeditions driving stock great distances in the bush in difficult conditions. Michael’s biography on his father published much later c1930 is one of our favourite pioneer accounts, almost impossible to find.

    Whilst we find the dodgy horse racing elements the most amusing aspect of “Harold Effermere” we also learn to put your swag on the western side of a bush to avoid the morning sun and never to make your tea in the beef billy unless you want tea soup!

    Early and rare Queensland Bush Story from a True Blue Bush Boy.

    $90.00

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  • The Strand Magazine – with an Arthur Conan Doyle First Publication – 1898

    The Strand Magazine – with an Arthur Conan Doyle First Publication – 1898

    A complete volume of the Strand Magazine being January to June 1898 in very good condition in the original green leather binding with elaborate gilt design and titling to spine.

    As would be expected many interesting period articles, stories and the likes .. one on Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) by Beatrice Hatch is rather special.

    The “piece that cannot be resisted” is a first publication of the short story by Arthur Conan Doyle … “The Story of the Beetle-Hunter” which was later published in a collection of short stories “Round the Fire” in 1908. The story, which runs to ten pages, contains eight illustrations by Archibald S Hattrick (1864-1950).

    Conan Doyle First and More in Very Good Condition.

    $140.00

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  • Unique Work English Literature – The Prose of Christina Rossetti – Lynda Palazzo – Original PhD Thesis Durham University1992

    Unique Work English Literature – The Prose of Christina Rossetti – Lynda Palazzo – Original PhD Thesis Durham University1992

    A high quality PhD thesis the author gaining a doctorate from Durham University. A unique work on the prose of Christina Rossetti more remembered for her beautiful poetry. Rossetti’s nine works are explored to a depth unseen elsewhere and Palazzo also presents here unpublished work – “notes on Genesis” with permission of descendant Joan Rossetti and a manuscript page from “Treasure Trove” permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Typed one sided 168 pages of A4 hardbound with blue cloth covers gilt titling to front and spine. Fine condition unmarked. Beautifully written superbly structured and full references.

    The author Lynda Carol Palazzo went to Kings School Macclesfield before entry to the prestigious University of Durham. This Thesis led to her published work ten year later in 2002 the highly regarded “Christina Rossetti’s Feminist Theology”.

    A Unique work for lovers of 19th Century English Literature

    About Christina Rossetti

    Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) sister of Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti (for whom she sat in a number of his greatest works including “The Girlhood of Mary Virgin”. She published her first work at the age of eighteen – on the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning she was hailed as the natural successor as female laureate. She was a strong minded Victorian woman opposed to war, slavery, cruelty to animals, the exploitation of girls in under age prostitution. Sadly in later life she suffered from Graves disease and later developed and died of breast cancer – she is buried in Highgate. Her poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” became Voyager’s favourite Christmas Carol.

    $80.00

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  • Saturnalia in Room 23 – Arthur Weigall – First Edition 1927

    Saturnalia in Room 23 – Arthur Weigall – First Edition 1927

    Published by Fisher Unwin a first edition 1927. Red cloth covered boards, 288 pages, some marks and ageing but a rare copy from a most unusual writer.

    The beauty Camilla causes a few problems on the Riviera. Saturnalia the ancient Roman Festival in honour of the God Saturn is honoured from 17th to the 23rd of December. The author was many things and nothing but controversial … in this novel he challenged the Church’s attitude to marriage which he regarded as rather primitive.

    Rare first edition from controversial Weigall

    Arthur Weigall (1880-1934) was a distinguished Egyptologist and author of biographies of Cleopatra, Marc Anthony, Alexander the Great, Nero and Sappho. He studied hieroglyphics at Oxford: by age 24, he was appointed Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt and supervised excavations in the Valley of the Kings. During his career, Weigall made several important discoveries, mostly about the reign, life and death of Akhnaton. Later in life he wrote novels, stage plays, poems and was rather successful

    $70.00

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