Fiction

The Silver Peril – Maryse Rutledge – First Edition 1931

A very unusual book for its time – Europe suffers attacks from the air by a winged helicopter – connected to the gang lands of the Montmarte, Paris. Britton of Scotland Yard has a difficult job on his hands.

First edition published by The Fiction League, New York in 1931. Octavo, 320 pages. Listed in authorities … Hubin, Bleiler, Reginald etc. Iconic dust wrapper, top edge stained blue … everything pretty fine.

First edition 11931 in about as good a condition as possible – collectable fantasy crime

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$120.00

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The Man with No Face – John Newton Chance – First edition 1959

A crime reporter suffers a memory loss. Four years later the police arrive and ask him about a man called “Maxie” … no knowledge but afterwards his wife tells him this is a man he has murdered. It all starts from there and get quite baffling – prepare to be surprised.

First edition published by Robert Hale, London in 1959. Octavo, 192 pages, tanned page edges otherwise very good and in a dust jacket to die for.

Scarce collectable crime in super jacket – how is your memory today?

$70.00

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Hemingway – High on the Wild – Lloyd Arnold

A 1977 edition of this table book relating to Hemingway’s time and family in the mountains of his beloved Idaho. Hemingway as we all know had a penchant for Cuba, Spain, Paris, Africa [the hunt] but it was the snowy winters of Idaho that he kept going back to.

Lloyd Arnold as a friend and this book was sponsored by Hemingway’s son … it contains many images of the great man with friends and family and the odd partridge. They all look very happy and rustic – even those with Cary Grant. It makes us feel better about what would become a troubled life.

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, quarto, 163 pages, heavily illustrated from original photographs. A little fixed to page edges otherwise a good copy.

Hemingway Happy in the Mountains.

$25.00

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Fitzgerald and Hemingway – a Dangerous Friendship – Matthew Bruccoli

A seriously interesting and entertaining account of the “dangerous” friendship between these two literary greats. The author Bruccoli, Professor of English at the South Carolina University and the man who penned numerous works relating to the subject pair and the definitive bibliography of Fitzgerald.

This the first UK edition published by Andre Deutsch in 1995, Octavo, 236 pages, illustrated from appropriate photographs, book cover etc.

It is the previously unpublished letters that make it for Voyager. The intellectual battle for humour, the banter the ribbing, the intensity, and the soul bared is special. Hemingway holds nothing back reading stream of consciousness [he did not like it] so Joyce et al get a quiet pasting. Zelda arises in the background Hemingway’s view strongly that she held back the great SFG and man who could have been America’s greatest writer.

Fitzgerald and Hemingway – intimately.

$40.00

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“The Arabian Nights” – The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night & The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and A Night – 16 Volumes Complete – Sir Richard Francis Burton

To many, one of the greatest men to live in the Victorian era Sir Richard Francis Burton- Adventurer, Explorer, Linguist extraordinaire… originally published the first ten volume work in 1885 and the additional six volumes between 1886 and 1888.

Criticised and acclaimed Burton did not hold back exposing the sexual imagery in the source texts and further emphasising by adding extensive footnotes and appendices on Oriental sexual more.

Because of strict laws on obscene material these volumes were printed privately for subscribers only by “The Burton Club” – this set circa 1910.

Collectable and gift worthy. A trifle rubbed here and there and the gilt spines a little light affected – otherwise a super and substantial set.

Heavy and obviously large in scale – a postage supplement will be required, at cost, dependent on the location of the purchaser … please enquire – it will be worthwhile

The whole of the Arabian Nights in captivating Burton Language.

$490.00

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Happy Valley – Patrick White

Nobel Laureate Patrick White had Happy Valley published in the UK in 1939. During his life he refused to allow the book to be re-published. So, it took to this issue published by the unusual Text Publishing of Melbourne in 2012 for it to appear as a second edition.

Octavo, 407 pages plus catalogue, decorative endpapers. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

White had spent time at a station in New South Wales as a jackaroo. He was not cut out for it. Nevertheless, the experience provided rather useful in writing this book … he had lived a colourful life to that stage and that would continue. Drawing on writers he had met and admired – Joyce, Woolf, DHL etc this is a complex novel of an exceptional standard.

Patrick White and his Happy Valley full of character and intrigue.

$40.00

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The Silver Peril – Maryse Rutledge – First Edition 1931

The Man with No Face – John Newton Chance – First edition 1959

Hemingway – High on the Wild – Lloyd Arnold

Fitzgerald and Hemingway – a Dangerous Friendship – Matthew Bruccoli

“The Arabian Nights” – The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night & The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and A Night – 16 Volumes Complete – Sir Richard Francis Burton

Happy Valley – Patrick White

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