Antiquities & Oddities

//Antiquities & Oddities
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  • Brian Savage, eligible bachelor-about-Manhattan had an antic mind and breezy drawing style that gave Playboy some of its wittiest visuals.  Mr Savage's art has been described - not as savage - but as pointed, perceptive, piquant and uniquely critical of the platitudes and attitudes of contemporary life. Vintage Playboy Magazine humour, 1972.  Probably very non-P.C. and highly collectible.
  • The evergreen classic tale of the March sisters begins ten years after Little Men. Plumfield is still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Although her 'little men' are now adults, they are still her 'boys'. Restless Dan looks towards new frontiers, but his good heart and efforts to protect a naive man lands him in jail; Emil has gone to sea and will experience shipwreck and sorrow before he sees Plumfield again and Nat, the musician, is ready to go abroad and study music - and he gets some other lessons in life as well. Meg's youngest daughter Josie is stage-struck and Amy worries that her only daughter Beth will make an unwise marriage.   Apart from worrying about her 'boys', Jo  inadvertently gets into another scrape when her privacy is invaded after one of her books becomes a best-seller.
  • Ronnie Clarke, an Australian airline pilot, learns that John Pascoe has crashed in the remote Tasmanian bush trying to fly help to a sick girl and is lying with a fractured skull. Ronnie decides to try and fly a doctor there despite the dangerous conditions, since he has always admired John ever since he taught Ronnie to fly.  By the time Ronnie reaches John, he has become close to the heart of the man, the secrets of his adventurous life and the two heartbreaks he has suffered.
  • Poor Mr. Banks. His cutaway is too tight, he can't get a cocktail, and he's footing the bill....He's the father of the bride.  Stanley Banks is just your ordinary suburban dad. He's the kind of man who believes that weddings are simple affairs in which two people get married. But when Daddy's little girl announces her engagement to Buckley, Mr. Banks feels like his life has been turned upside down. And any man with a daughter can appreciate Mr. Banks's feelings. To say the least, Mr. Banks isn't taking it well, and to make matters worse, he must host cocktail parties with the in-laws-to-be, initiate financial planning talks with Buckley, and moderate family conferences on who will be invited to the reception. Who can blame him when he sinks so low as to offer Kay $1500 to elope? But Mr. Banks holds his peace, and when the last wedding guest has departed from his confetti-carpeted house, he has his memories, and you have a merry record of his tribulations. Classic comedy that was considered so classic that it has been filmed twice and a 50th anniversary edition of the book was issued. Illustrated by Gluyas Williams.
  • A further instalment in the Freddie Browne and Jim Fanshawe investigations series - a 1937 mystery in which, no doubt, the bodies pile up and the femmes are fatale - or fainting - in the best tradition of the genre. Illustrated by J. Philips Paterson. A fabulous period piece for fans of the traditional detective story.