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Signed Letter – Elspeth Huxley -1982 (References Kenya)

Type written and signed clearly by author and African legend Elspeth Huxley. Embossed address.

To Crosby … returning a signed book … and responding to the recipient’s suggestion of starting a business selling signed book. Elspeth will oblige and is prepared to sign half a dozen but suggests that the postage may be prohibitive. She closes with reference to Kenya and a recent visit “It has changed of course, but where has not?” and mentions the TV serial “I think the producers did an excellent job in re-creating the atmosphere etc of 1913/14, insofar as they could”.

The TV serial of course is the Flam Trees of Thika along with Mottled Lizard her most lyrical work. She was five years old in 1912 when her parents arrived at Thika. Her husband was the grandson of the great Thomas Huxley. She published many works and fell out with Harold Macmillan who refused to publish her description of female mutilation of the worst type.

Elspeth Huxley highly respected and knew Africa. Boldly Signed.

We also have a nice copy of the “Flame Trees ….

$60.00

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The Damon Runyon Omnibus – 1944

The man behind Guy’s and Dolls and much more on Broadway here are three of his first published in this form -including the aforementioned all-time hit.

“When you see a sport and his cash has run short
Make a bet that he’s banking it with some doll
When a guy wears tails with front gleaming white
Who the hell do you think he’s tickling pink
… on Saturday night?”

A rarity that takes you back

$50.00

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The Pallid Giant – Pierrepont B. Noyes – 1927 Science Fiction

A second edition of the highly sought sfter science fiction classic from the 1920’s.

Advanced civilisations destroy themselves, two survivors mate with sub-humans to produce modern man

1927 – early science fiction … stunning dust jacket

$60.00

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Wild Geese – Martha Orstenso – 1926

A very good 1926 edition of the Wild Geese first published 1925.

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 and packed with living character. Superb dust jacket and beneath that pictorial boards to die for.

A special book of the era

$60.00

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Sleep in Peace – Phyllis Bentley -1938

A Voyager favourite. This lovely copy published same month as the first edition April 1938 with simply the best dust jacket.

Bentley is back in Yorkshire and follows three generations of as each tries to do better than the last – “Sleep in Peace! I will be different than you”

Best English Literature with the looks 1938

$60.00

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Walk with the Devil – Elliott Arnold – First Edition 1950 – Fine Condition

A fine first edition 1950 published by Knopf, New York. Stunning dust jacket art.

Set in the Italian Apennines the lives of six very different people intermingle with serious consequences through to the climax that challenges moral conscience.

Perfect Condition 1950 First

$60.00

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