Antiquities & Oddities

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  • Or...£500 for a second hand car. A humorous study of the trades and professions that make London tick. Here is cheerful, factual reporting on how the people who clip the publics train tickets or weigh their bananas think, talk, feel and swear about their business. Here are car salesmen, the Billingsgate Bobbin Boys, street-corner news vendors, cab drivers, musicians, Palace guardsmen and others who have added colour and spice to London life.
  • What? We’ve heard about Table Manners and Party Manners; Visiting Cards and Formal Manners...Another etiquette book in a world already groaning under the wight of etiquette books? Yes. Because this book pioneers in a new field of good manners and good form when you find yourself there with the partner of your choice. It should be given to every couple; doctors will prescribe it to all their discontented partnered patients. NB: Statistics quoted do not include Eskimos, nudists, bedridden people or dancers. You may gather from all this that is is a funny book...Chapters include Getting Undressed; In Bed; Getting Up; The Bedroom As A Public Lounge; On Coming Home From Stag Dinners; The Wife Who Stays Out Late; Reading In Bed; Physical Jerks; In And About The Bathroom; How To Make Conversation In The Morning; A Short History Of Bed Manners; Bed Manners On A Friend’s Yacht; Berth Control In The Sleeping Car; Camp-Bed Manners; Simple Rules For Subtle People; When Nighthood Is In Flower; Last Words.
  • In this volume: The Crimson Shawl, Florence Bone; The Work Of The S.P.M., Mary Oldfield; The Quicksand, Philippa Francklyn; Summer Voices, Katharine Tynan; The Island Of Adventure, Winifred Darch; The Influence Of Anne and A Horrible Fix, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; The Shadow Of The Past, A.G. Hobart-Hampden; The Bogle, Margaret Baker; The Little Shepherd Of The Stars, Thora Stowell; The Lady In The Yellow Gown, Elinor G. Brent-Dyer; The Tide, Lilian Holmes; The Hat That Was Almost A Tragedy, Agnes Adams; The Bronze Man,  Brenda Girvin; Under Canvas, M.C. Carey; Latymer And Barchester, Margaret Chilton; Alone In The Hills, G.E. Scott; The Princess Does Not Dance, M.E.F. Irwin; The King Of Somewhere, S.M. Hills; Two Grey Pigeons, Alice Massie; Then And Now, Vernon Rendall; The Spanish Innkeeper, S.M. Hills. Colour plates and line drawing illustrations.
  • In this volume: Bobbit's Chair, E.E. Cowper; Daphne's Sunset Tiles, Brenda Girvin; Captain Betsy, Dorita Farlie Bruce; The Family Tradition, Shirley Grey; Someday, S.M. Hills; Madge's Burglar, Marjory Royce; Judy And The Treasure, Agnes Frome; Miss Connington, Alice Massie; The Relief Of Fox Lake, C Bernard Rutley. Colour plates and line drawing illustrations.
  • In this volume; The Rest Cure, Anne Page; Caroline And The Count, Jocelyn Oliver; A Bit Of History, D. Dike; The Desert Of Arabia, J.T. Williams; S.O.S., Thura Lifford; The Secret Of The Lobster Pots, Ierne T. Plunket; Cricket For Girls, Marjorie Pollard; The Saving Of The 'Undine', Beryl Irving; The Smugglers Of Portincross, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; It Flowered For Me Alone, Thora Stowell; Gillian's Choice, Pamela Tynan Hinkson; Captain's Roll Of Honour, Beryl C. Lawley; That Sort Of Girl, Peggy Judge. With colour plates and line drawing illustrations.
  • In this volume: The Competition, Evelyn Simms; Kept In, J. Brown; Jill's French Prose, Winifred Darch; Mind And Matter, Jocelyn Oliver; Greta The Greater, Barbara Todd; A Delicate Situation In The Fourth Remove, Josephine Elder; Those Twins, Jessie McAlpine; For Diana's Sake and Roman Remains, Grace Mary Golden; Bats In The Belfry, Elizabeth Woodhouse; The Final Score, Ierne L. Plunket;  The School For Scandal, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; Caroline And The Princess, Jocelyn Oliver; The Blunder, Shirley Grey; The Noble Earl, Alice Massie; The Scraps  Of Paper, Margaret Baines Reed; Pamela's Tenderfoot, Mary Oldfield; The Breaking Up, Mrs Elizabeth Turner
  • In this volume: All Fools' Day: Dorita Fairlie Bruce; A Painful Prep, Lucy Scott; A Good Turn, Grace Mary Golden; The Domestic Economy Class, Peggy Judge; The Tale Of A Trail, Jessie McAlpine; The Innocent Sinner,  Dora M. Hardisty; White Heather and Second Fiddle, Shirley Grey; Pamela's Pound, Gunby Hadath; Mount Warning, by Castleden Dove; The White Rabbit At School, Winifred Darch;  Prue Goes Shopping, Barbara E. Todd; The Play's The Thing, Agnes Frome; The Price Of Attainment, Agnes Adams; A Shooting Star, E.M. de Foubert; Puck's Performance, G.M. Faulding; The Ragging Of Rachel, Christine Chaundler. Illustrated with colour plates and black and white line drawings.
  • Margery and Ian voyage to the queer land of Baste in a silver bubble. There they undertake marvellous adventures brought about by the theft of the Frost Fire and encounter other wonders such as the Timeless Stone. There's fabulous characters: Tiel Quintillian of the leaf-green beard, Miles Pennycook and his sweetheart Biddy Bluebell; the gallant Captain Tod (gallant, nut noisy); Mr Ned Kelly, young Harry Dale, the drover, the Brooding Brolga, the Mocking Lyre Bird and the Ancient One of How Many Years living in his Gibba-gunyah. Even Cobb and Co find a place...a wondrous and scarce Australian fantasy story to rank with Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding. Illustrated by R.W. Coulter.
  • We can't help you out with a plot line here - even Trove let us down! But we can tell you about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Everett-Green
  • In this volume: The Adventure of 'The Three Dead Smugglers', Rose Macaulay; The Strange Adventures of A Sun Umbrella, Kay Martin; Netball For Girls, Cicely M. Read; The Disappearance Of Daisy Cheyne, M.B. Sandford; A Treasure From The Snow, Elsie J. Oxenham; A Caravan Holiday, Bertha Leonard; Lawn Tennis Hints, W. Haines Jull; The Lucky Leaf, Florence Bone; The Toy Theatre, A. Waddingham Seers; Dragon House and Trial By Jury, Katharine L. Oldmeadow; A New Hobby, L.G. Fitzpatrick; Curio Collecting, Ethel Talbot; A Castle In Spain, Guy Stirling; The Princess Nuala, Katherine Tynan; Book Parties and The Tree Of Liberty, Violet M. Methley; A Handful Of Three, E.L. Haverfield; Touch-Ball, R.L.G. Goodchild; The Witch's Spell, E.E. Cowper; Hidden Treasure, Jessie Leckie Herbertson; Decoration In Water Colour, Grace Lodge Clifton-Shelton; Keeping A Nature Diary, A. Waddingham Seers; All The Veronicas and Experiments In Sweet Making, Alice Massie; Three Rainy Day Games For Juniors, Doris Wood; Hints To Amateur Actors, C. Bernard Rutley; A Visit From Bashio Bazouks, Kay Martin; Let's Have A Play, Katharine Oldmeadow; Twilight Speaks, Blanche Jones;   A Fool's Errand, Catherine A. Morin and Maud Morin; Athletics For Girls, Frank N. Punchard.
  • Red - or Green? Shirley Grey; A Bit Of History, D. Dike; The Thing That Mattered, E.L. Haverfield; Improve Your Tennis, Jane Thornicroft; Letitia's Taxi Cab and Miss Connington In Town, Alice Massie; The Chinese Vase, Brenda Girvin; The Three Belpennys, Elizabeth Whitely; The Gargoyle and An Adventure In The Roussillon, S.M. Hills; Caroline And The Count, Jocelyn Oliver; The Pewter Candlestick, Dorothea Moore;  S.O.S., Thura Lifford; Gillian's Choice, Pamela Tynan Hickson; Cricket For Girls, Marjorie Pollard; The Strange Sedan, M.A. Peart; It Flowered For Me Alone, Thora Stowell; The Saving Of The Undine, Beryl Irving; The Smugglers Of Portincross, Dorita Fairlie Bruce.
  • In this volume: The Family Streak andThe Old Fault, Shirley Grey; Hiking On Horseback, Cora Gordon; The Scotch Society, Constance Savery; The Monster Of Loch Shee, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; 'For The Best Disguise', Evelyn Simms; The Three Workers, Frances Joyce; Mr Stewart's Nuggets, Wallace Carr, The Fairies' Gift: A Welsh Story, Ann Vaughan; The Parrot That Did Not Talk, Elizabeth Whitely; Caroline And The Smuggler, Jocelyn Oliver; Good Aunt Earle, M.A. Peart; Camping Out, A.G. Holman; Jill Repays, Anne Page; Pamela's Piebald, Gunby Hadath; The Wanderer, Thora Stowell; How To Dive, W.J. Howcroft; Sally's Sunday, Alice Massie; The Poison Cupboard, Frances Joyce.
  • Very scarce story collection for girls. In this volume: Poor Miss Robinson, Katharine Tynan; The Great Winter, R.D. Blackmore;  Twilight Wind, Thora Stowell; Marcia Of The Mill, Estrith Mansfield; Two Gardens (poem), Lilian Holmes; Sky-High, Margaret Lillie; Felicity's Revenge, E.L. Haverfield; The Shepherdess (poem), Alice Meynell; Concerning Theodosia, Christine Chaundler; The Mocking Fairy (poem), Walter de la Mare; Violeting, Miss Mitford; Signal No. 52, Brenda Girvin; Sheep And Lambs, Katharine Tynan; Eleanor's Valentine, Margaret Stuart Lane; Our Dutch Garden, Lilian Quiller Couch; Uncle Jasper, Winifred Letts
  • It's a large helping of Pythonesque madness as Palin and Jones cover all the really important things: Alcoholic Dogs, Bournemouth, Conjuring, Dancing (Ballroom), Essay (School), The Famous Five  Go Pillaging, Grannies, Heroism (across the Andes by Frog), I.Q., Music (Dr Fegg's Nasty Symphony), Parlor Games (Pass The Bengal Tiger), Questions (Silly), Rats (Pantomime), String (1001 Things to do With), Things To Stick Your Head Into, Violent Anger and Why It Is Good For You, What the Queen Had For Lunch and Zsa Zsa Gabor's Sex Life. Illustrated and comes complete with a variety of instructions and methods of how to destroy the book.  https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/brand-new-monty-python-papperbok-graham-chapman-john-cleese-eric-idle-terry-jones-michael-palin-terry-gilliam/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/lady-cottingtons-pressed-fairy-book-terry-jones/
  • A fascinating blend of Biblical commentary and travel narrative that characterised its predecessor,  In The Steps Of The Master.  Morton set himself the task of following the the Missionary Journeys of St. Paul and tracing the route by which  Christianity came to the West. He made four journeys to the Near East, covering Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Macedonia, Greece, Cypress, Malta, Rhodes and the City of Rome. Morton wanted to portray St Paul as a Saint and a man, and what problems he would have encountered as he set out to Christianise the pagan world, to describe the world in which he lived and to contrast the cities of his day with their modern equivalents. Photographic illustrations.
  • Everything and everyone is under the gun in this collection of outrageous stories and non-politically jokes! Even James Bond isn't exempt. There's blonde bombshells, ethnic jokes, religious rib-ticklers, mansplains, church crackers, sex, quickies and shorties and the completely bizarre to make you laugh out loud wherever you are. Adults only...
  • The son of the chief of Maia Island has taken Ati Manu, a jewelled collar which is their only valuable, to exchange for food for its starving people. Two men follow him through the jungle but he manages to hide the collar in a hollow tree before he is cornered and killed. The Brevitt family take up the search for the valuable collar despite the armed murderers who wait  for them in the jungle. They are robbed of vital skin diving equipment and are attacked by sea creatures in  their efforts to find Ati Manu and help the natives.  Danger stalks the family as they search for the treasure, with plenty of adventures before the hunt ends. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
  • Over 1000 hints and recipes for making your own wine and beers - an enjoyable hobby you can share with friends and make great savings in costs, too. There's sections on country wines, fruit wines, sparkling wines, malt syrup beers, fruit beers, ciders, liqueurs and even flavoured vinegars for cooking. All the information is here - ingredients, equipment and step by step instructions.