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The Divine Sarah – A Life of Sarah Bernhardt – Gold and Fitdale

Large octavo, 349 pages, plus addenda and after introductions. Published by Harpers in 1992. Nicely illustrated from period photographs etc. A very good near fine copy.

The adventurous Bernhardt not satisfied with being the most admired actor of the 19thC took to some strange activities … riding whales, collecting exotic animals, early ballooning and, was a accomplished artist and sculptor.

Sarah Bernhardt we love her at Voyager

$35.00

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The Search for the Islands of Solomon 1567-1838 – Colin Jack-Hinton.

A first edition of this substantial book [size and depth of content] published by the Clarendon [Oxford University] Press, Oxford in 1969.

Large scale royal octavo, 411 pages, illustrated appropriately with amps and charts. Very goo condition. A heavy book not realty suitable for Overseas postage.

Starting with the Spaniard Mendana’a expedition and taking in several later voyages of discovery the Solom Islands were finally understood from a geographical form point of view in the first half of the 19th Century.

The author not only undertook painstaking research of manuscripts, early volumes and charts but also set out himself to understand this elusive group first hand.

The Solomon Islands probably the best in depth book on the early adventurous explorations that put the islands on the map.

SO SORRY SOLD

$90.00

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Who’s Who in D.H. Lawrence – Holderness

A first edition published in New York in 1976 by Taplinger.

We think this is a great idea and should be done for every great novelist – we have always struggled with retaining character recognition in lengthy or complex novels – the human-kind not the typescript. Tolstoy would be a good one – has anyone got to the end of War and Peace confident that the characters are firmly “slotted in” to one’s mind.

Anyway, here we have DHL and a pocket of literary paradise for the likes of Voyager.

D H Lawrence – characters on a plate

$30.00

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James Joyce’s Ulysses – Clive Hart

We doubt if there is any book ever published that requires more explanation and assistance on reading than Ulysses. Deliberately so. Joyce himself struggled with the corrections and many errors still remain – dependent what an error is in the context of Ulysses. Note that that should put anyone off reading the best mots confusing book of at least the 20th Century.

Octavo, 186 pages, very good condition Expert, Clive Hart published his work in 1968 through the Sydney University Press – part of their Sydney Studies in Literature series.

Ulysses by Hart – get it and understand it better

$30.00

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Strawbale Homebuilding – Alan Gray.

An “Earth Garden Magazine Publication” i.e. self published by Alan Gray of PO Box 2, Trentham, Victoria – love it!.

The title more or less explains all. Octavo, perfect bound, 156 pages with numerous illustrations from original photographs of the magnificent constructions. This method may have gone out of fashion with the move towards stainless steel, glass and posh bathrooms.

Time for a resurgence we would say – the economy monetary and environmental should be promoted by Governments and all of their cascading authorities.

Every public servant should be made to build one – sorry if you live off the purse.

More money and delight can be made from this book over any other

$25.00

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The Men That God Forgot – Richard Butler

First edition published by Hutchinson’s London in 1975. Octavo, 254 pages plus bibliography, end paper maps. Very good condition.

The most remote penal colony in the world was Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen’s Land. In 1833 after eleven years of misery it was decided to close it down and move the convicts to Port Arthur. Ten convicts were commissioned with the task of constructing a Brig to make the voyage around the coast. They saw their chance and seized the vessel and made their escape … but as always there is more to the story.

A well researched highly fact backed novelisation – super read.

The story of the final escape form Sarah’s Island through the Gates of Hell

$30.00

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The Divine Sarah – A Life of Sarah Bernhardt – Gold and Fitdale

The Search for the Islands of Solomon 1567-1838 – Colin Jack-Hinton.

Who’s Who in D.H. Lawrence – Holderness

James Joyce’s Ulysses – Clive Hart

Strawbale Homebuilding – Alan Gray.

The Men That God Forgot – Richard Butler

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