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The Hunted – Albert Guerard – First Edition 1944

First Edition published by Alfred Knopf, New York in 1944. Octavo, 288 pages. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. A very good if not fine copy.

Albert Guerard was in the US Army when this book was published. It was his second novel of the published in his lifetime. He also published many works on literary criticism. Educated at Stanford and Harvard he would go on to be Professor of Literature at Stanford after the whole and was highly influential in developing the Stanford program in modern writing. His father also an author held the same position.

the author was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1956 and received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Literature in 1964.

The Hunted is a physiological thriller. Claire Harcha, a singing waitress of New England marries a Cambridge English graduate (an odd ball). She becomes ostracised from the fraternity group and sympathetic to a hunted violent outlaw “Bomber”.

First edition 1944 – distinguished author.

$70.00

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The Boy Biggles – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1968

First edition 1968 published by Dean, London. Octavo, 182 pages, dust jacket edge chips, internally very good and clean.

Retrospective of Biggles early life in India where nerves are tested, thugs and intruders abound, and a Foolish Tiger mixes with the Big Bad Bear.

Scarce Biggles in his early and no less adventurous years

$30.00

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Australian Poetry – Apocalypse in Springtime – Lex Banning – 1956

A first edition of what we believe is Lex Banning’s final published collection

Arthur Alexander [Lex] Banning (1921-1965) had a difficult upbringing. He has cerebral palsy to an extent that he had little control over his arms. His studies could only be completed by dictation. Thoughtful and thought provoking and some hard reality.

Slim octavo, published by Edwards and Shaw, Sydney in 1956. 34 pages. Top of decorative dust jacket a tiny bit damaged as it is cut just too large for the book. Otherwise, a very good copy.

Lex Banning had something to say …

$25.00

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Traitors’ Gate – Dennis Wheatley

First edition published by Hutchinson, London in 1958. One of Wheatley’s classics.

The Book Club edition which had this classic jacket designed by Sax – so period. Octavo 383 pages. End paper plan of Budapest and schematic of the Tower of London. Bit of age to top edge otherwise a very good copy..

One of a series on novels concerning the secret agent Gregory Sallust. Set in Budapest in 1942 where the effects of the war had yet to fully felt. The main plot centres around how the enemy were so brilliantly misled regarding the Allies intentions in North Africa.

Dennis Wheatley established a cult following during his lifetime. He was hugely successful and bought a large “Georgian Pile” in Hampshire were he kept a very large collection of rare and antiquarian books … his appetite for serious historical memoirs is reflected in the depth and solidity of his writing.

Wheatley in Budapest during WWII – dressed by Sax

$30.00

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Ernest Hemingway – Fiesta – Cape Edition

Our favourite edition Published by Jonathan Cape, London this issue 1975. Presented in that classic wrap around cover. Scarce and sought after in this Cape form. All about the bullfight in Hemingway.

The dust jacket designed by Hans Tindall. Octavo, 286 pages, a pretty good copy. The strong bull image on the dust jacket is repeated boldly on the front board. Stunning.

This is the Fiesta

$60.00

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Biggles Air Detective – Captain Johns

Stolen Aircraft, “Black Sheep”, the case of the Wounded Agent … a Biggles shorter story delight, seven in all.

Published by Dean & Son a 1960’s reissue of an early Biggles collection. Octavo, 151 pages, toned evenly, a little chipped to jacket to jacket still a good copy.

Biggles packed with thrills

$25.00

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