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.
  • Lennie Lower was born in Dubbo in 1903 and after school joined the Royal Australian Navy, which he left in circumstances that are somewhat obscure. During the Depression he seems to have led a hobo existence and began contributing humorous material to newspapers, later becoming a full time journalist. In this volume: The Secret Lives Of Lennie L:ower; Bloodhound Lower Of The Yard; Husband Lower Of The Back Yard; Hints For Young Home-muckers; Bearding Grandpa In His Den; Putting Curry Into The Curriculum; How To Be A Lighthouse Keeper Or Almost Anything; Is There An Elf On Your  Shelf? Whaling, Chess And Other Indoor Sports; Science, Medicine And Other Lurks. Epilogue:The Melancholy Of Lennie Lower by Alexander MacDonald.  Known for Here's Luck, Lower is still considered to be the comic genius  of Australian journalism. He died in 1947.

  • Young student Axel and Professor Otto Lidenbrock, studying a very old manuscript, discover an ancient pathway into the centre of the Earth. They travel to Iceland, and with the assistance of Hans, a local guide, they find an entrance in Snæfellsjökull, a volcano near Reykjavík. The travel is extensively long, and not without its many perils. Will they be able to make it? And what amazing wonders await hidden within the depths of the Earth? Colour illustrations by T.C. Dugdale.
  • A fabulous compilation of political cartoons from a variety of sources world wide. In this volume: Europe Before The Great War; The First World War; The Uneasy Peace; Depression And Disarmament; The Rise Of The Nazis. With a chapter on Background and guide to cartoon analysis.
  • A charming collection of myths, legends and tales with giants, magic, saints, robust friars, Robin Hood and miracles.