Antiquities & Oddities

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  • Horace Wheeler is handsome, quick-witted and poor. Horace's one desire is to be in love, which leads him into proposing. Aunt Jane is a sincere, kind-hearted Christian widow who's not always appreciated for her words of wisdom or her little "sermons". Those little sermons interfered with the good times Horace has with the less serious young people he keeps company with and his unfailing sense of humor and easy manner makes him a favorite in his crowd. But then the Civil War breaks out and Aunt Jane's prayers follow Horace after he enlists to fight - and his experiences make him become a different man; not only physically but spiritually.  
  • The madcap story of Patrick's adoption at the age of ten by his zany, unconventional Auntie Mame.  And life with Auntie Mame was never ever dull! Sparklingly witty, irreverently satirical, this 1955 novel manages to remain timelessly relevant in its cutting send-up of conformity and conservatism.  Patrick reminisces his way through life with Mame in the glittering Roaring Twenties, surviving the Great Depression, her marriage and widowhood, World War II and into his first forays into romance. Based on a real Aunt. Cover shows Rosalind Russell in the 1958 film of the same name.
  • A real curio for history buffs and those who collect bank memorabilia. Remember when banks did give away all sorts of great things? Really good money boxes that you couldn't break into, and recordings of the Skippy theme song? The National Bank of Australasia Limited with its wholly-owned subsidiary the National Bank Savings Bank Limited offered this little volume covering all things resource and development: the Industrial Pattern of the rural, mineral, manufacturing and basic industries in each state making a special note of each state's particular strengths as well as Papua New Guinea; Water Resource, Transport and Power are also covered.
  • From the Carpenter's World Travels series.  A fascinating look at life as it was here - in 1926! With 126 photographs and enticing chapter headings, such as: Life on the Sheep Station; The Three R's in Australia; Gold Diggings in Creek and Desert; Social Pests; Kangaroos and Danc9ng Birds and Mutton and Butter for London Tables. Illustrated with fabulous black and white photographs.
  • Australia is one of the richest countries, growing far more food that can be eaten, as well as a major source for minerals. To whom should Australia sell its food, minerals and energy?  On what terms? How secure are Australia's relations with its major trading partners?  How much does Australia's growth depend on immigration.  These are just some of the themes covered in this book.
  • Thomas Stanley Hepworth (1916 - 1985) was a teacher, author and editor, responsible for the Australian Children's Newspaper, The ABC Children's Hour Annual Nos. 1–5 (1956–58, 1960–61), and The Australian Children's Annual Nos 6–8 (1963–65). There is plenty to amuse and educate in this thoughtfully-produced annual: stories, plays, information on how things were manufactured, hobbies and other countries; songs; riddles; crosswords and handicrafts. Contributors to this edition include Ruth Park, Rowena Farre, Denys Burrows, G.K. Saunders and 'The Argonauts'.  In a day of limited television, these annuals were regarded as very instructive for young people. Illustrated with cartoons and black and white photographs of events in Australia and overseas.
  • Dr. Stephen McCabe has a partnership in a fashionable practice in Sydney and a very beautiful, very ambitious fianceè and when he comes to the lonely Flying Doctor outpost of Winnemincka, he only intends staying for a short holiday. Yet he is aware that his true vocation is escaping him and that feeling becomes more acute when an old friend of his father comes from the Outback to visit him. The discovery that many lonely people desperately need him takes him out of his comfortable rut and presents him with a challenge and he must face the greatest personal problem of his life with a completely new set of values.

  • Arthur Daley, national institution, super patriot and Olympic gold medallist in Ducking and Diving, takes a long hard look at the state of the nation and asks: What Is Occurring? Her Majesty the Queen forced to open up the hallowed portals of Buck House and become a Pentax-dodger; Mrs Thatcher roaming the seas singing for her supper; the fate of the country left in the hands of a Nerd-Do-Well and a Chancellor who smokes cigarillos - and even Her Holiness Lady Porter treated like some common shoplifter at Tesco! But Arthur is on hand.  His brief? To hold out a beacon of hope to hapless Brits lost in a mailroom of uncertainty and to lead them back to the level playing field on top of the high moral ground. To bring the country back to basics on such burning topics as the Monarchy; Sport, Education; the Citizen's Charter (Arthurised version); Europe, the Arts and the vexed question of Sunday Trading - in short it's an in-depth company report on Great Britain that makes the Doomsday Book look like a takeaway menu from the Fulham Golden Palace.
  • In this volume: Badger On The Barge: Miss Brady lives on a barge, with a b adger.  She doesn't like people much, especially children and that includes Helen. But she needs her help and for Helen, that's better than staying at home. Reicker: Sean learns to deal with violence through his encounter with an old German prisoner of war and farmhand. The Egg Man: Jane learns how secrets and regrets can ruin a life. Jakey: An old, fiercely independent boatman shows Steven that hope and faith come from the inside. The Topiary Garden: Liz meets Sally Beck, who was once a boy, and makes sense of her own frustrations.  A thematic collection of the special relationship between the young and the old and suitable for any age.
  • 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
  • Set on the Isle of Man during the First World War, the novel relates the life of Mona Craine, a young woman who lives with her brother and their aging father. Mona's life is disrupted first by her brother being called up to fight in France, and then by the authorities agreeing to set up an internment camp for enemy aliens there at Knockaloe. Mona consents to live there still and supply food for them odious Germans against her wish and only for the sake of her ill father. However, her hard and unforgiving attitude towards the Germans begins to lessen when she meets the polite and well-spoken Oskar Heine. As they begin to fall in love, they also need to deal with the fierce hostility of the local community.Originally published as The Woman of Knockaloe.
  • A treasure trove of childhood past with stories by Noel Streatfield, Sir Edmund Hillary, Michael Westmore and more. There's puzzles and quizzes, short stories and articles, pictures in colour and black and white.
  • The sequel to Beau Geste: the ripping adventures of Major Henri de Beaujolais from adolescence to maturity as a well-connected cavalry officer in the French Army: he's an Old Etonian; his mother a Devonshire Cary; his deceased father a Frenchman; his paternal uncle the youngest General in the French Army and married to the sister of the French Minister of State for War. Starting as a one-year volunteer trooper in a hussar regiment, De Beaujolais graduates from the Cavalry School of Saumur to become an officer of Spahis and a member of the French Secret Service.  The Major faces the struggle between love for his country and the love of a woman. Highly romantic - but it was published in 1926! Regarded as the 'French' novel of the Beau series with Beau Geste as the English novel and Beau Ideal as the American novel.
  • 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.
  • The second volume of the Belle the Bushie stories by Pat Richardson includes those she read each Monday morning on 2SER-FM's new Horizons programme from August 1990 to January 1992. Mostly humorous, sometimes sad and even one or political commentaries, the tales cover Sydney and the bush, covering such topics such as AIDS, schixzophrenia, Country ARt shows, Women's Day Marches, the 'rellies', family Christmases and the Gulf War.
  • Young Bill Berenger, having already won a considerable reputation for pulling off some difficult assignments involving detective skill, pluck and other assets, is this time involved in the machinations of a half-mad individual who calls himself the Fire-Seraph. This dangerous sort believes himself the descendant of the Incas and plots to dominate the world. Thus Berenger finds himself - to begin with - responsible for a cargo of explosives which the Fire-Seraph is hoping to secure for his own purpose. One thing leads to another and even when, after an air attack, Berenger's ship reaches its South American port and the end of the adventure might appear to have been reached, its most desperate episodes are ahead. Bill again meets his girl-friend Janet-Eve, and clearly a romance is blooming but before it can come to full flower, he has to take the biggest risk he ever ran in a situation that seems hopeless.  Historic naval fiction and adventure for young adults.
  • Dick Denver, a fifteen year old lad has just learnt from a friend that his father, a sailor, has died. Dick cannot bring himself to open the letter that accompanies this news - then there is a knock on the door and an unsavoury character, another mariner, barges in, insisting on seizing the letter. Dick escapes downstairs and bumps into Biggles, Algy and Ginger, who decide to help eject the intruder and retrieve Dick's letter - which contains a gold doubloon and the location of where more could be found. Biggles and Co. do not hesitate to go on a treasure hunt to the Caribbean, but none of them know that the doubloon carries an ancient curse.
  • This book, which has nothing to do with anything, owes nothing to almost everyone including Robert Burns, Napoleon, Graeme Green, Livingstone Hopkins, Longfellow, John Bull, Guiseppe Verdi, Daniel Defoe, Lord Byron and others. It owes a lot to Bill Wannan, who over the years has pandered to his sudden rushes of comic inspiration and has strayed into a world of dreadful puns, comic narrative, biographies brief and banal, philosophical snatches and illustrated idiocy. His assiduous filing has allowed the accumulation of these visual and verbal tid-bits for the delectation of mankind.  So if you want to knit a scarf for a giraffe, see Mr. Hyde's last confession, understand the difference between a ballad and a ballade, read of the historic meeting between William Wordsworth and the Inspector of Stamps, find out who was the world's most eligible vandal - then this book is for you.  Illustrated.
  • 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.
  • Never again will you be short of a good tale at a dinner party. Amuse your friends, embarrass your maiden aunt and shock your stockbroker with stories of the inept, the improbable and the downright impossible. Read about the sanctuary for alcoholic donkeys; the would-be mugger who was rendered unconscious by an octogenarian armed with an onion (and who subsequently ate the evidence for lunch); the battle between a mother and son over the division of a lottery prize; the thief who stole skimpy ladies' clothing from washing lines in the belief he was protecting them from baring too much flesh -   and many other true and bizarre stories.
  • The legend of Black Beauty has spawned (if a horse can be said to spawn; it's more of a frog thing, really) a great many horsey tails on film television and in print, but even Anna Sewell's original classic adventure didn't tell it like it really is. So here, straight from the horse's mouth, is Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan, revealing what it's like to be a young foal: On being a young foal: 'As soon as I was old enough to eat grass, my mother  used to stuff it down my throat until it kept coming out the back.' On being sold by a beloved master: 'I could not say goodbye so I put my nose in his hand and bit off a finger.' On freezing weather: 'The horses all felt it very much. I felt mine and it was frosty.' Spike canters through this volume of his According To...series with his unique, bawdy irreverence.
  • Comparable to Treasure Island or Mutiny on the Bounty, here is a story of high adventure, mutiny and high-jacking told in the first person by a 13 year-old boy who runs away from home to seek a fortune for his family. Ralph Raikes is the son of a farmer who has been evicted from his holding  by an unjust landlord. He goes to Liverpool where a gang of scoundrels force him to sign on as a cabin boy under the notorious Captain Swing. He recounts his terrifying, strange experiences on board the Nero, which he discovers to be a slave ship bound for another load of 'black ivory' from Africa. There are many adventures, lessons and triumphs before Ralph goes home. With black and white illustrations.
  • In this volume for little ones, from a long, long time ago...Where The Rainbow Led To, Mrs Albert G. Latham; The Carol Singers, Violet Bradby; A Day's Outing, May Byron; Alfred Allgood And The Fairies, Aston Moore; Jill And Her Journey, May Byron; The Cricket Match, Jessie Pope; In The Enemy's Country, Mrs. Albert G. Latham; Jim, Alice Talwin Morris; The Lost Half-Crown, Mrs. Albert G. Latham; How To Play Croquet, Ann Marston; A Little Hero, May Byron; Betty's Plan, Gladys Davidson; Just Like Daddy, Mrs Albert G. Latham; How To Make The Best Of Things, Alice Talwin Morris; Billy The Boaster and The Mollycoddle, May Byron. With some colour and black and white illustrations done by H.M. Brock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._M._Brock
  • The house was built in the Old Queen's time for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. It survived many eras and many reigns - it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War.  It  was rescued by an illiterate woman farmer, became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a twentieth century hotelier.  Children, both heirs and bastards, were born there. It had ghosts, legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation. Never be put off by the covers of any book by Norah Lofts.  She always told a wonderful story, no matter what time period she chose to set her tales. Cover art by J.A. Greenberg.

  • 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.
  • 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!