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The Complete Book of Magic – Peter Warlock

Published by Abbey, London a first edition circa 1960. Large octavo, 141 pages illustrated to assist the “lessons”. Very good condition albeit that the paper is toasted a little as always.

Sought after and well dressed first edition of Peter warlock’s book on magic. Importantly, Warlock was a high ranking “Member of the Inner Magic Circle”. Before we learn the tricks we are taught how to create a Magical Atmosphere … could be handy for most

Everyone should be able to do Magic!

$50.00

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The Last of Lysandra – Elizabeth Fenwick

A very good Gollancz, yellow jacket thriller. A first of type published 1973. Octavo, 160 pages in very good condition or better.

More strange characters than “Midsummer Murders” … we are promised a hidden menace lurking behind respectable facades … and we get it.

Who is lurking behind your façade?

$25.00

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The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway – 1956 Edition

Published by Jonathan Cape, London a quite early edition 1956, noting the Nobel Prize win on the front jacket flap.

Slim octavo, 127 wonderful pages. A very good copy.

Should be everyone’s favourite short read. Nobel citation – “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most lately revealed in his novel The Old Man and the Sea”.

Nobel Classic by Hemingway.

$60.00

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The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier

Published by Victor Gollancz, London 1983 … the first printing of the second issue in the more modern Gollancz jacket. Octavo, 350 pages in very good condition.

Daphne du Maurier’s somewhat exotic scandalous story of the Delaney family and they were parasitic. Draws on her own life.

Vies with Rebecca as her best

$35.00

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Sunset at Blandings – P.G. Wodehouse

Published by Chatto and Windus for the Book Club Associates, a first printing 1978. Octavo, 213 pages illustrated endpapers, diagrams of Blandings etc. A very good copy.

P.G. Wodehouse died at the age of 93 in 1975 having written one hundred books been a highly acclaimed Hollywood scriptwriter, written the lyrics to 300 published songs etc. This is his final unfinished work, 16 of maybe 22 planned chapters.

Compiled by Richard Usborne and magnificently supported by the “Work in Progress”, manuscript notes of scenarios and plots found at PGW’s bedside and at home. They make very interesting reading and remind Voyager of our other favourite unfinished work “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” by Dickens.

Usborne also provides a fun chapter on the fictitious Blandings Castle and its surroundings, an essay on the train timetable between Paddington and Market Blandings with the help of a “Bradshaw’s” expert, before Michael Portillo had the idea, and few pages of “Notes to Text”’ which will make any reader qualify as a first grade Wodehouse expert.

Unfinished but entertaining

$35.00

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Love and The Luxembourg – Richard Aldington – First American, Fine, Limited and Signed – 1930

Beautiful presentation of Aldington’s lengthy poem a first American edition published by Convici, Friede Inc New York 1930. Limited edition of 475 copies of which this is number 400. The book was designed by Frederic Warde and printed by William Edwin Rudge … signed nicely by Richard Aldington and Frederic Warde.

Large octavo, 53 pages plus the limitation. Bound in stylish burgundy cloth cover boards with gilt flower design to front with gild boarders and gilt designs to spine. Top edge nicely gilt other edges rough cut. Slipcase as issued. A fine copy.

Richard Aldington (1892-1962) was a founding poet of the Imagist movement. He fought on the Western Front during WWI and wrote “Death of a Hero” widely acclaimed. Much can be said about him .. his friendships included Ezra Pound (an early mentor), D.H. Lawrence, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Elliot, Joyce, Hemingway .. says it all … what a period!

Love and the Luxembourg is about his love for American writer Brigit Patmore (For B.) who he was in a relationship with 1928-1936 … he left her for her daughter in law.

Later in life he wrote a brief biography on T.E. Lawrence which suggested various things previously unsaid about the great man’s character. Aldington was never forgiven for this “abuse” and lived the rest of his life out in France.

Aldington a special poet with literary contacts

$60.00

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The Complete Book of Magic – Peter Warlock

The Last of Lysandra – Elizabeth Fenwick

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway – 1956 Edition

The Parasites – Daphne du Maurier

Sunset at Blandings – P.G. Wodehouse

Love and The Luxembourg – Richard Aldington – First American, Fine, Limited and Signed – 1930

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