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In Old Days and These and Other Stories – Tasmania – By The Captain

Extremely scarce and only edition published in 1930 printed at the Monotone Art Printers, Hobart, effectively self published by the anonymous “Captain”.

Octavo, soft covers 159 pages, illustrated throughout, the highlight being an unusual large folding map at the front of the Derwent Estuary. A number of “old style” advertisements for various Hobart businesses scattered throughout.

The “Captain” starts by suggestion the book contains numerous ancient and modern historical facts of Tasmania in general and Hobart in particular.

The detail in this book is quite astonishing. It wanders through the City streets referring to building after building .. the history of who owned it from its first existence, what use it was put to and the successes and failures that ensued. Amusing and fateful anecdotes along the way. Pubs feature strongly and, we are entertained with the new ways of making good beer that have been adopted in Hobart. Key individuals feature and we hear of the great family difficulties suffered by Voyager hero James Kelly, whaling entrepreneur and Derwent Pilot.

Few copies exits in libraries and none we can see for sale.

Special book on Hobart for anyone interested in the fine details.

$90.00

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Agatha Christie – Complete Set of the Collected Edition by Hamlyn – 24 Volumes – 72 Novels.

Published by Hamlyn, London various dates as issued in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Uniform octavo, over 12,000 pages. Nicely bound in decorated black cloth covered boards with gilt adornment and titles, super headbands, all top edges stained red as required. Each covered in the original “Crime Themed” dust jackets of the period .. now all protected in removeable Brodart. Very good condition, the tiniest bit of age to a couple, all clean as a whistle internally … as fine a set as you could find.

To be read over a lifetime … maybe twice. Comprising …

1. 4:50 From Paddington; Lord Edgware Dies; Murder in Mesopotamia;
2. Sparkling Cyanide; The Secret of Chimney; Five Little Pigs;
3. A Caribbean Mystery; Taken at the Flood; The Seven Dials Mystery;
4. Evil under the Sun; Death Comes as the End; The Sittaford Mystery;
5. Ordeal by Innocence; One, Two, Buckle my Shoe; The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding;
6. Partners in Crime; At Bertram s Hotel; The Hound of Death;
7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; They Do It With Mirrors; Mrs. McGinty s Dead;
8. The Clocks; Third Girl; Murder in the Mews;
9. Halloween Party; Passenger to Frankfurt; The Thirteen Problems;
10. The Hollow; The Moving Finger; Three Act Tragedy;
11. The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Ten Little Ni*****s; Dumb Witness;
12. Appointment with Death; Crooked House; Sad Cypress;
13. The Pale Horse; The Big Four; The Secret Adversary;
14. Cat Among the Pigeons; The Labours of Hercules; Hickory Dickory Dock;
15. Nemesis; Parker Pyne Investigates; Poirot Investigates;
16. Death on the Nile; Towards Zero; After the Funeral;
17. By the Pricking of My Thumbs; The Mysterious Mr. Quin; Endless Night;
18. Peril at End House; The Body in the Library; Hercule Poirot’s Christmas;
19. Murder is Easy; Dead Man s Folly; The Man in the Brown Suit;
20. The Mirror Crack d from Side to Side; They Came to Baghdad; The ABC Murders;
21. Murder on the Orient Express; Death in the Clouds; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?;
22. The Mystery of the Blue Train; The Listerdale Mystery; The Murder at the Vicarage;
23. The Murder on the Links; A Pocket Full of Rye; Destination Unknown;
24. Cards on the Table; N or M; A Murder is Announced.

Total weight packed is approaching 20 kgs so we will have to quote postage to any buyers location. We always pack well and find the best mailing arrangement for all our customers.

Agatha Christie simply the best complete set.

$390.00

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Joseph Mason – assigned Convict 1831-1837 – Edited by Kent and Townsend.

Published by the Melbourne University Press, a fine copy of the first edition 1996. Octavo, 182 pages with end paper maps. Gift inscription on half title otherwise clean as a whistle.

Joseph Mason was transported to New South Wales, one of many who protested against the mechanisation of agriculture … threshing machines.

The large part of this book is his Memoir of goings on a wonderful insight into the Colony … referencing encounters with aboriginal people and good descriptions of convict “assignments” around Sydney, Parramatta and Campbelltown and explorations along the Nepean River.

Good introductory chapters with contributions from David Kent as well as the industrious editors.

One of the more thorough and thoughtful convict accounts

$20.00

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Scents of Flying – Maki Horanai and Hillel Weintraub

Self published hand made by Mountain Dreams Press in 2010. A special beautiful book displaying the highly original artwork of Maki Horanai.

Unpaginated but 28 pages of thick handmade paper so lovely you could eat it. Fourteen images by Horanai, alternating full page and double page. Signed boldly on the front pastedown by the artist and the wordsmith Hillel Weintrub. The image of the title, an element of “Homage” is repeated pasted to the front boards. Boards covered in rich handmade paper.

As you can tell … we love it.

Wish and you could be a “Sky Carpet Traveller”

$70.00

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A Matter of Speculation [Financial Scandel in 1815] – The Case Against Lord Cochrane – Henry Cecil – First edition 1965

It’s the year before Waterloo, 1815 and a fine plot is put into effect to manipulate the London Financial Market – a false report is made in grand style that Napoleon has been defeated … indeed dismembered. The idea is to cause a run on the stocks taking quick and sizeable profits.

Lord Cochrane, yet to carry out his boldest endeavours, fighting the Spanish and Portuguese in South America, makes a handsome profit buying and selling large holdings before settlement is required at the Broker. It’s all rather complicated … but is Cochrane personally involved in all the shenanigans?

The book is very cleverly written, presenting the background, evidence from the Courts, without revealing the outcome. We will not either.

Published by Hutchinson, London in 1965. Octavo, 208 pages, ownership signature on pastedown, otherwise a fine copy.

Cochrane one smart cookie but was he guilty?

$25.00

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The Dawn of Time – Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings – Roberts and Mountford.

A first edition of this “sequel” to Dreamtime. Another wonderful book by ethnologist Charles Mountford and artist Ainslie Roberts.

Published in 1969 again by Rugby, Adelaide. Same small quarto format 79 pages with a beautiful image for each of the myths recounted by Mountford received from Elders and Storytellers.

Includes some from the coast such as Kondole the Whale; Pipinyawari the Queen Fish … the Fighting Cloud Women; the Black Kangaroo; and our favourite Brolga the Dancing Girl .. albeit a little sad.

Remember this story when you see a Brolga.

$30.00

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In Old Days and These and Other Stories – Tasmania – By The Captain

Agatha Christie – Complete Set of the Collected Edition by Hamlyn – 24 Volumes – 72 Novels.

Joseph Mason – assigned Convict 1831-1837 – Edited by Kent and Townsend.

Scents of Flying – Maki Horanai and Hillel Weintraub

A Matter of Speculation [Financial Scandel in 1815] – The Case Against Lord Cochrane – Henry Cecil – First edition 1965

The Dawn of Time – Australian Aboriginal Myths in Paintings – Roberts and Mountford.

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