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Millions enjoyed Ronnie Barker - whether he was being one of The Two Ronnies, up to tricks in Porridge or was in hot pursuit of the desirable Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Open All Hours. He was also a great collector, particularly of the most enchanting and fascinating picture postcards, produced in different countries from the late nineteenth century onwards. His collection numbered over 50,000. This is one of two volumes - The Green Album and The Red Album, published simultaneously - which show his eye for the saucy, the humorous or the ingenious. But they also provide entertaining galleries of a popular art form which is now the subject of collectors' dreams. As he said, 'The great majority of the better cards are indeed little works of art in their own right and they cost but a penny each.' -
Horse-loving sixteen year old Dinah Markham helps her Aunt Zoe run a riding school in Brenford, tending and training the ponies and teaching youngsters how to ride. Illustrated by Yvonne Bulgin. -
Doris Leslie: Fair Company
$15.00This novel spans 130 years and follows the line of women of the Wrotham family, beginning with Sabrina in 1806. The daughter of a socially disgraced, sadistic roué, she is sponsored into 'Society' by her step-aunt - after having had some good manners vigorously instilled in her and her tomboyish ways smoothed out. Her brother Prior's marriage and production of children play a part in keeping the Wrotham name going. The next Wrotham woman is Clare - her brother Anthony's marriage to Harriet brings Charlotte to the line and the last is Gillian Rose, known as 'Jill'. The diaries and letters of the women are fictitious but the times in which the story is set are not, and many historical characters and events of England are brought to the story. As the generations overlap, with the members of each generation subscribing to the beliefs of their day, there is little sentimental romance involved - just a very good story, tinted with gentle romance and enhanced by the backdrop of historic reality. -
Over 150 original images guaranteed to cross your eyes, baffle your brain and frustrate your friends - there's even one dated from the time of the Ancient Romans. In colour and black and white. -
Hiding under the witness protection programme, Rick Jarmin gets nervous when his old flame Marianne recognises him as her fiancè who vanished years ago. But before he can assume a new identity, the man he put in jail is released and comes to pay his respects. Rick and Marianne are thrown together on the run across the country, barely evading the police, gangsters and an amorous veterinarian. Also stars David Carradine, Joan Severance and Bill Duke. -
Persuaded by a beautiful Russian Countess to help her flee her loathsome fiancè, Captain Jonathan Clark sails from San Francisco to Alaska, evading cunning rival Captain Portugee - who will unite with Clark to defeat the Russian menace, Prince Semyon. -
Hundreds of hopefuls congregate at a cattle call for Broadway dancers. Sour director, Zach and his brusque assistant whittle down the ranks until they're left with 16 dancers. Each one has a story - some are tragic, some are comic - and explain their love of dance. Tension mounts when Cassie - once both a big star and the director's lover but now desperate for a part - auditions. But Zach must choose only the best for his show. Musical. -
Zip Annual: Odhams Press
$15.00In 1957 Odhams Press lost the rights to use any and all Disney characters, meaning that their incredibly popular and long-running title Mickey Mouse Weekly was forced to close. Not every character in the comic was owned by Disney though, and Odhams used everything they still owned in a new weekly called Zip. There were two Zip annuals produced. The first came out in 1958 and is known as the 1959 annual, followed by a second one dated 1959 but known as the 1960 annual. These are the only two Zip annuals; for unknown reasons Odhams decided not to continue the series. This is a very high quality children's annual: Stories include: Nigel Tawny, Explorer - The Adventure Of The Lazy Lobster; Skippy: The Capture; Brett Brand - The Golliwog Mystery; Kid Brother; Touchdown - Operation Bowman; Nigel Tawny - The Windmill; The Kellaway Touch; Brett Brand - Monkey Business; Skippy and the Road Hog; Killer Cuda; Touchdown - The Big Illusion; Nigel Tawny - Obi; The Story of Samuel Plimsoll. There are also comic strips, games, puzzles and things to make. Fabulous artwork - see gallery pictures for examples. Verso front and back boards and endpapers are two different 'board' games. Some cartoons in full colour, others in monochrome. -
Even in these days of X-Box and IPhones, there'll be some who'll remember when annuals such as these were eagerly looked for in the Christmas gifts - full of stories, games, puzzles and riddles. This one from 1961 is plenty of everything. Stories include: Clapper Boy, C. Schuster; Foes Of The Forest, Charles Hamilton (creator of Billy Bunter) ; Sports Club, Robert Bateman; Lovell On The War-Path, Owen Conquest; Shaghra The Leader, John Bancroft; The Flight of the Strato Queen, Leonard Gribble; The Guardian Of Devil's Cave, D.L.G. Stainton; Adrift On An Iceberg, Peter Spencer; Night Train To Zurich, Vincent Griffin; The Green Fire, Alan C. Jenkins; Just Like Jack! Frank Richards; Percy's Potty Prank, John Forsyth; The Young Archers, Sydney J. Bounds; Dawson's Double, Haydn Warman; Herring Moon, Arthur Catherall; Tick-Tock's Grandfather, David Norris; Who Cares About Archaeology? Robert Bateman; Spot On The Wicket, John Bancroft; Off The Record, Geoffrey Morgan; Sparks At Strathdrene, J.A. Jordan; The Wellport Wonder, John Forsyth; Adventures In Devon, William Luscombe; Pirates Of The Deep, Sydney J. Bounds; Old Bob's Barn, Louis Valentine; Terry Of The Tight Rope, Clifton Heath; Wildcatter By Accident, James Frederick; Leave Him To Ozzy, Michael Kendrick; Invisible Ink, R.A. Hall; Palma Incident, Darry McCarthy; Menace On Wheels, D.L.G. Stainton; Coral Sea Adventure, R.A. Hall; School House Mystery, Guy Leslie; The Stolen Renoir, The Phantom Rustlers and Road Ace, Sydney J. Bounds; Two Hundred Feet Of Celluloid and Phil Barton - Crack Runner, Robert Bateman. -
Over the modern world lies the shadow of mysteries that neither reason nor science can explain. In this volume, investigative author the late John Pinkney covers: The Corpse, The Duke and the Nazi Spy: Was Edward, Duke of Windsor in deep with the Nazis? Don't Disturb the Dead: the discovery of a mummified hunter in 1990, 53 centuries frozen in the Otzal Mountains, seemed to unleash a curse on those who disturbed him. The Man Who Vanished From The Sky - Inexplicable Disappearances: In 1928 the world's third-richest man, Alfred Loewenstein, vanished from a plane in mid-flight; The Book That Foretold Diana's Doom - Premonitions in Books and Films : 'David Lancaster's book, Caroline R, was published in 1980 - which foretold Diana's life from the moment of her marriage to Prince Charles; Nightmare In The Garden - Reports From Reality's Edge: In 1999, a roadhouse cook was awoken at 1.30 a.m. by her dogs barking. When she went out to quiet them, she saw something she would never forget, and which would rob her of sleep for months to come; The Secret Agent And The Uncanny Cloud - Wartime Mysteries: An elite British secret agent is dropped in the wrong place for her mission, yet an inexplicable force guided her to the right place..and she wasn't the only one to have this experience. Seashells In The Trees and Other Strange Skyfalls: In 1985, a mass of exotic seashells usually found in the warm waters of the Philippines, cascaded onto a village in England; Insane Egotist - The Mass Murderer Who Adored Publicity: The FBI's finest couldn't crack the Zodiac Killer's code - but a high school history teacher could. The Dead Sailor Who Invaded a Photo - Ghost Mysteries; Did Amelia Die? Or Did the Government Lie? Courageous aviatrix Amelia Earhart allegedly vanished with her navigator in July 1937 while circumnavigating the world. Eighteen months later, the US Government declared them both officially dead. But in the 70 years since, scores of people have come forward with very good reasons to believe that her disappearance may be the biggest cover-up in American history; Triangular Evidence - The Geometric Markings on UFO Abductees' Skins; The Woman Who Slept For 32 Years: Carolina Olssen lived a quiet life, with one claim to fame; she slept uninterrupted from 1876 to 1908 then woke apparently healthy and unaffected by this extraordinary event; Hell From Within: Spontaneous human combustion has been documented for thousands of years, yet still, science does not know what causes it. Did James Leininger Live Before? The Riddle of the Reborns: Six year old James not only claimed to be a naval fighter pilot who had died in World War II, he knew details that only the US Navy and the dead man's family could know. Jewels From Jupiter: In 1851, John Evans, part of a team of geologists and engineers, stumbled on a massive, gem-studded meteorite deep in Oregon territory. He casually took a few samples and left again, neglecting to chart its location. Treasure hunters have been looking for it ever since. The Strange Case of the Separated Sisters - Astonishing Coincidences: British siblings Evelyn and Edna were separated at birth. Yet 58 years later, Evelyn found out that her long-lost sister had moved in next door. The Dream That Proved A Dead Man Was Alive - Sleep and the Seventh Sense: In 1944, the Australian Army broke the news to Eddie Hooker's family that their son was missing in action, believed dead. The family were shattered, but Eddie's brother Harold was unable to mourn. He dreamed for weeks that Eddie would come home, healthy and happy. Harold's dream came true in every detail after the end of the Pacific War. -
A real treasure chest of old-fashioned favorite tales; complete and unabridged except for those marked *. The Heroes, Charles Kingsley; Horatius, Lord Macaulay; The History Of The Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, The Jumblies, The Pobble Who Has No Toes and The Two Old Bachelors (all illustrated), Edward Lear; The Rose And The Ring (illustrated), W.M. Thackery; The Travels of Baron Munchausen* and Greedy Richard, Jane Taylor; The Watchfulness Of Papa, Jane and Anne Taylor; Matilda, Who Told Lies and Franklin Hyde, Who Caroused In The Dirt and Was Corrected By His Uncle (illustrated), Hilaire Belloc; John Gilpin, William Cowper; The Jackdaw Of Rhiems, R.H. Barham; Orpheus and Eurydice, Gilbert Abbot A'Beckett; The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning; The Fairies, William Allingham; Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti; The Snow Queen, Hans Andersen; The Brave Little Tailor, Grimm; The Golden Branch, Countess D'Aulnoy; Granny's Wonderful Chair, Frances Browne; A Mid-Summer Night's Dream (slightly adapted), William Shakespeare; Aesop's Fables (Selections); An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Madam Mary Blaize, Oliver Goldsmith; Old Saws; Wise Sayings; The Story Of the Three Calendars, Sons Of Kings And Of The Five Ladies Of Baghdad, (adapted) from The Arabian Nights; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; Chink: The Development Of A Pup, Ernest Thompson Seton; Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, The Pavilion On The Links, R.L. Stevenson. CAUTION! These tales would probably be regarded as unsuitable for children today so adults please read first! -
The true and truly unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have twelve kids and Dad can prove demonstrably - well, almost! - that efficiency principles can apply to family life as well as the workplace. Made into a film (1950) with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as Dad and Mum Gilbreth and remade in 2003. (See the original, it's funnier!) -
Can one think of Torquay without the image of Basil Fawlty cropping up? This charming guide book covers not only the Torquay of 1920 but also delves into history, folklore and local customs. With beautiful colour plate illustrations by Frederick J. Widgery. Reprinted in 2016. -
Here’s Luck: Lennie Lower
$25.00Lower's iconic novel which took its place in Australian culture, never to be dislodged. Rather like its main character, Jack Gudgeon. Residing in a run-down Sydney suburb during the Depression is Gudgeon - 48, a male chauvinist, an in-debt cynic, layabout and barroom philosopher. His wife, Agatha, having had more than she can take, has finally walked out on him. With Jack - and his equally unreliable adolescent son Stanley - fending for themselves, pandemonium ensues. Full of sardonic Aussie wit and mad capers, father and son blaze a trail of drunken chaos through the city's pubs, clubs, race courses, and their own increasingly battered home. Along the way, they fall in with a wondrous assortment of dubious characters who turn up to enliven the kind of party that Mr. Gudgeon invariably intends to be a "quiet, respectable turnout," but which, somehow, never is. Illustrated by the equally classic cartoonist 'Wep'. -
This edition, 1866 (!) is a volume that contains 'views of the characters of the world's greatest men...and to present these views in the best words of the best authors.' One can only imagine how differently some of the greats herein may be viewed today, over a century later; would Lorenzo de Medici, for instance, be remembered as a patron of the arts or as a member of a family of notorious poisoners? In this compendium: Kings and Conquerors: Alexander the Great, Grote; Julius Caesar, de Quincey; Mahomet, Gibbon; Charlemagne, Hallam; Alfred, Hume; William the Conqueror, Lyttleton; Wallace and Robert Bruce, Tytler; Peter the Great and Charles XII, Voltaire; Charles V, Robertson; Henry VIII, Froude; Oliver Cromwell, Carlyle; Lord Clive, Macauley; Washington and Napoleon Buonaparte, Brougham; Nelson, Alison and Lamartine; Sir John Moore, Napier; Wellington, Hugh Miller. Statesmen and Orators: Cicero, Professor Spaulding; Lorenzo de Medici, Hallam; Machiavelli, Sismondi; Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More and Sir Walter Raleigh, Tytler; Thomas Cromwell, Froude; Hampden, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Warren Hastings and William Pitt, Macauley; Viscount Falkland, Clarendon; Burke and Charles Fox, Alison; Talleyrand, Brougham; Mirabeau and Robespierre, George Gilfillan; Palmerston, Blackwood. Philosophers And Men Of Science: Socrates, Grote; Plato, Brucker; Aristotle, Blucher; Copernicus and Kepler, Olmstead; Lord Bacon and Byron, Macauley; Galileo, Sir David Brewster; Descartes and Locke, Hallam; Sir Isaac Newtown, Voltaire; Leibnitz and Berkeley, Dugald Stewart; Benjamin Franklin and James Watt, Jeffrey; La Place, Playfair. Poets and Dramatists: Homer, Pope; Virgil and Petrarch, Professor Spaulding; Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Lope de Vega and Alfieri, Sismondi; Chaucer, Spenser and Thomas Moore, Hazlitt; Shakespeare, Dryden-Blair; Ben Jonson, Dryden; Calderon, Augustus W. Schlegel; Cornielle, Moliére and Racine, Hallam; Milton, Congreve and Thomson, Johnson; Pope, Wordsworth and Shelley, de Quincey; Cowper, Jeffrey; Chatterton, Thomas Campbell; Burns, Carlyle; Coleridge, Foster. Historians, Novelists and Essayists: Boccaccio and Cervantes, Sismondi; Rabelais and Voltaire, Hazlitt; Montaigne and Pascal, Hallam; Swift, Jeffery; Addison, Johnson; Samuel Johnson, Sir J. Mackintosh; David Hume, Professor Nichol; Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, John Paul Miller and Sir Walter Scott, Carlyle; Goldsmith, Johnstone; Gibbon, Prescott; DeFoe, Hugh Miller; Macaulay, George Gilfillan; Thackery, Hannay. -
The first edition of this book came out in 1928, and as a result of 'much correspondence' and further research, the author released this updated edition in 1944. Contents in this volume: The Devil's Hoofmarks: A series of strange footmarks in the snow appeared in Devonshire in 1855; The Vault At Barbados - also known as the moving coffins of Barbados; The Ships Seen On The Ice: Ships from a polar expedition believed lost in 1845 are spotted years later; The Berbalangs of Cagyan Sulu: Tales of zombies in the Philippines in 1896; Orffyreus' Wheel: Did Orffyreus invent a perpetual motion machine in 1717? Crosse's Acari: A new species of insects allegedly created by the reanimation of dead matter; The Auroras And Other Doubtful Islands: Islands that had been recognised and charted for centuries - yet they don't exist...; Mersenne's Numbers: Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, gave his name to Mersenne primes in the 17th century - prime numbers that are one less than a power of two; The Wizard of Mauritius: In the late 1700s Bottineau could predict, with accuracy, which ships would soon be arriving; The Planet Vulcan: Is there another planet between Mercury and the Sun? Nostradamus: The French scholar and mystic predicted a great many things that came true yet sceptics will point at those which haven't come true - to which the the believers retort, 'Yet...' Having written his quatrains in a mix of Latin, Greek, French with a touch of English tossed in. It being entirely possible that the quatrains were torn in half by Nostradamus so that the first two lines may have little to do with the last two, the world has not yet heard the last of him. While at least one of these 'Oddities' has now been solved - the moving coffins of Barbados - the others remain unexplained to this day. With photographs and sketches. -
Stories From History, Book II. Published in 1936 - but history doesn't change that much. This is a lovely little volume tracing the history of Rome from Romulus and Remus to the Roman invasion of Britain, the invasions of the English, the Vikings, the Goths and the Huns up until the time of Edward the Confessor, all told in small manageable 'bites'. With black and white rotogravure illustrations. -
A stirring story of adventure in the wilds of North America. Ellis was a prolific author and it is believed he wrote over 200 novels in the adventure genre, as well as any number of short stories and articles for Boys Own type publications. -
Does anyone have tales from their elders of sitting around the radio, waiting for their favourite serials to come on the air? When A Girl Marries...and Blue Hills. At Oolera, an isolated township in Central Australia, Sister Heather Jamieson of the Australian Inland Mission answers a radio call for help for an injured stockman on Copper Downs Station. There, she is soon doing battle with the owner, Ric Carson, who accepts hardships for himself yet invites no woman to share them. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, her brother Donald has been influenced by her accounts of Australian life and desiring to widen his horizons, is planning to emigrate. His fiancée, Ellie, is afraid to leave the security of home and family. Meredith's story follows the fortunes of them all, with emphasis on Ellie's development which brings her not only to Australia but deep into the heart of its sun-scorched interior. -
There are pirates, adventures and plenty of heroics from the golden age when the might of England made itself felt by land and sea, under the rule of Good Queen Bess, the mistress of English hearts and Englishmen. In particular, these are the adventures of Humphrey Salkeld - how he was kidnapped and carried away to Mexico; how he underwent torments at the hands of the Inquisitors; and how he fell in with Captain Francis Drake and escaped to England. First published in 1895, Fletcher also wrote poetry and non-fiction books, and was acclaimed for his murder mystery novels. He wrote over 100 of these, the first one being published in 1914. Illustrated by W.S. Stacey. -
Verses and short stories that reveal O'Grady's skill in being able to record certain typical aspects of Aussie life - not all of them humorous. Chapters in this volume: Some of us are weirder than others; You can have a lot of fun if you're a dog; Exile; Put your hat on, driver; Mucked about by experts; Pokin' around; What is an Australian; Mondayitis; Il re di cosa nostra; Bundeena for bangers; Coober Pedy Pete; Slapped in the kisser with a spin; Brown bottles are different; Integrated adjective; View of a gentleman; Soldier in the rain; Gilgais and billabongs; When a man gets a bit stewed; Always dreamin'; The plonk that launched a thousand books; What did you say your name was? The song of Eddie Gunther. Illustrated by Paul Rigby. -
The daughter of Queen Hippolyta, Diana is raised on the hidden island of Themyscira, home to the Amazons, women warriors created by the Olympian gods to protect mankind. Diana is raised on their history and knows that Ares became so jealous of humanity that he slayed the Gods and determined to destroy Mankind. But Zeus left weapons in the guardianship of the Amazons - the sword Godkiller and the Lasso of Hestia, a magical artefact that forces the truth from captives. In 1918, Diana rescues US pilot Captain Steve Trevor when his plane crashes off the Themysciran coast. The island is soon invaded by German soldiers in pursuit of Steve. The Amazons kill the crew and Steve is interrogated with the Lasso of Hestia. He reveals that a great war is consuming the outside world and that he is an Allied spy. He has stolen a notebook from the Germans' chief chemist, Dr. Isabel Maru, who is attempting to engineer a deadlier form of mustard gas under the orders of General Erich Ludendorff. Believing Ares to be responsible for the war, Diana dons her armour and must leave Themyscira with Steve to locate and stop Ares for good. Her only weapons are her Amazon training, the Lasso of Hestia and Godkiller... -
So Sue Me: John O’Grady
$10.00O'Grady sez: 'These essays, or whatever they may be, represent my thoughts and conclusions on various things and people. My eldest son wanted me to write my autobiography - 'The story of your life, Pop,' he said. 'And tell the truth'. He can go and jump in Lake Burley Griffin. I offer instead on what that life has taught me. And over sixty years of knocking around and being knocked around, a man acquires a sort of philosophy. Basically, mine is that nothing in life is worth getting steamed up about, and most things are only good for a laugh. So sue me!' O'Grady offers what life has taught him about chooks, language, weddings, women, God, censorship, writers, art, politicians, sex and funerals. -
Bruce, the son of the busy Dr Henshaw and a doting mother, is pretty used to doing just as he likes. But Bruce also has an older sister who is not quite so charmed by him. Bruce doesn't realise the value of money, has no respect for the property of others, is too lazy to apply himself to school and always seems to talk his way out of the mischief he gets into so effortlessly. But when he 'borrows' a motor car belonging to City merchant Mr. Ferguson, almost has an accident and the bewildered merchant gets a summons to appear in court for reckless driving, Bruce's father knows the time has come to teach his charming lad a sharp lesson in reality. He also needs to learn that driving recklessly in a 'borrowed' motor is NOT a 'lark'. The railway line near Boonderong in Queensland is being extended and Dr. Henshaw's friend Mr. Langdon is in charge of the work camp there. And this is where Bruce is sent - to work, to learn the value of what he earns and to respect that which does not belong to him... and he has to learn it the hard way. -
This is a screen adaptation of Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying. Comstock's struggle in 1930s England - that's George Comstock, budding poet and suitably angry young man - to write poetry and be a free man means that he must throw up his job as a star copywriter at an illustrious advertising firm to work in a dingy book shop for far less money. It also means that he must sponge off his hard-working sister, girlfriend and wealthier friends, while calling every man 'comrade' and loudly deploring the 'God of Money' - not to mention loudly abhorring that eternal symbol of stodgy respectability, the dreaded aspidistra. George has to descend into the squalid, bed bug-ridden depths of disreputable Lambeth to prove his point, while his patient and ever-practical girlfriend Rosemary stands by and waits for him to come to his senses. With many guest appearances by well-loved English character actors. -
Bride-to-be Sophie is on a quest to find her father before the big day. The only problem is - she's not sure who he is! After reading her mother's diary, she narrows it down to three great loves. So she invites them all - knowing her mother would not approve - and tries to conceal their presence...but it's not long until the secret's out! -
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) brings it all to create a cinema spectacular of the classic tale of the legendary gorilla brought from a treacherous island to civilisation, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival. Also starring Adrien Brody, Colin Hanks and Andy Serkis as Kong.
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