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A collection of Abbott's essays on Australian life, originally published serially in The Bulletin and covering events, personalities and the things that don't get into the history books - but which probably should! -
All the stars of the screen are featured in this annual, together with the film releases of the year and all the glamour of the premières attended by Royalty. There's Richard Burton, Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Anthony Quinn, Danny Kaye, John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Kim Novak and so many more. There's studio photographs, candid shots, stills and behind the scenes, between the takes and on location. There's even retro photographs and tributes to the silent screen greats. Cover shows Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in The King And I. -
A lively fantasy story set against the background o New Guinea in World War II. Private Dusty, cut off from his unit and lost in the jungle, is rescued and cared for by Squizzy. one of the Jambies - a race of little people no taller than 6 inches. On this journey Dusty will also meet the Jeannies, Hispians and Tamborans and he will learn a great deal about this fascinating, magical land - such as how the wings of butterflies are so beautifully painted by Smudge, the Jambie artist; he'll attend a concert and meet notable Jambies - and become involved in a feud between the Tamborans and Jambies. -
Rodney Stone: A. Conan Doyle
$150.00A Gothic coming-of-age story that takes place in Sussex County and follows a young boy with an interest in mischief, exploration, and boxing. Rodney Stone and his best friend, Jim Harrison have always been drawn to dark and dangerous places. When they wander into Cliffe Royale, an old, deserted mansion that was the scene of a gruesome murder fifteen years earlier, they’re both frightened and strangely excited to cross paths with a ghostly figure. Before they can identify who the ghost is and what it wants, Rodney’s wealthy uncle, Sir Charles Tregellis, arrives in Brighton and takes Rodney away. Rodney soon learns that Tregellis, a typical dandy, is connected to just about everyone in London and has focused his attention on an upcoming boxing match to be witnessed by thirty thousand spectators. If Tregellis’s unnamed challenger wins the fight, it could mean grave trouble for Tregellis and everyone he’s associated with - including Rodney. Distracted by the upcoming fight, Rodney almost forgets about the chilling discovery he made at Cliffe Royale with Jim - until the past comes back to haunt them all. A story with twists, turns and the famous and infamous from history - an unforgettable portrait of what life was like for both the common man and the social elite in the early 19th Century. -
Faith, a young orphan girl is adopted by a Christian couple, but her adoptive mother dies and her father's mother moves in to take care of the family. Grandmother is lazy, drunk and violent, insisting that her son be rid of Faith, resenting her as an outsider and an intruder. Faith runs away, determined to find work as a servant girl...and she begins to find friends and help where she least expects it. Also published as The CHild Of The Toy Stall. -
The classic children's fantasy adventure that was first published in 1863. Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls fast asleep, and becomes a water baby. In this new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Other-End-Of-Nowhere, Tom achieves his heart's desire. Illustrated by Harry G. Theaker. -
An annual for the little ones with stories, puzzles, pictures to colour in, poetry and games. With contributions by Enid Blyton, Hazel Brown, Clare Westcott, Gordon Hewitt and more. Colour plates and monochrome cartoon pages in blue and orange. No puzzles have been completed or any pictures coloured in; no marks of previous ownership. -
Circa 1940s-50s, an annual for teenage girls featuring short stories, nature articles, activities and craft, poetry and more. Contributors include: Winifred Bear, Mary Lillian Royce, V.F. Wells, Leonora Fry, Nancy Martin and more. Illustrated by W. Spence and others. -
Esquire's selection of the alumni of literature. These anthologies are becoming scarce, so if you are the type of reader who likes to have everything your favourite author wrote, don't delay! In this volume: Sweet Faces and Foul Minds, George Jean Nathan; Washing the Hands, Aiken A. Dehan; Latins Are Lousy Lovers, Helen Brown Noren; The Wench Is Not Amused, Anonymous; Essay on Jiggling, George A. McNamara; A Report On Man's Best Friend, Lawrence Martin; Christ in Concrete, Pietro di Donato; They Order It Better In France, Anonymous; No More Trouble For Jedwick, Louis Paul; The Beaut From Montana, Frank Scully ; Gold Star Mother, Philip Stevenson; A Good Job Gone, Langston Hughes; What I Am Faithful To My Wife, Thames Williamson; A Breast Of The Times, Herb Graffis; After Baby Comes, Douglass Welch; I Mix The Drinks, W.B. Lytton; Cafeteria Complex, Fred S. Tobey; The Martyr, Newman Levy; Don't Laugh Now, J.C. Furnas; You Can't Sleep With Women, Alan MacDonald; Yonder's Henry! Thorne Smith; Keeping Cool At Conneaut, Paul Gallico; The Resurrection of Solly Moon, Walter D. Edmonds; Greek Tragedy, Ring Lardner; I Drink American and Take Along The Little Pal! Donald Hough; The Snows of Kilimanjaro and On The Blue Water, Ernest Hemingway; Uncle Fonse Laughed, Jesse Stuart; A Duel by Candlelight, Andreas Latzko; The Tall Coorter, Sean O'Faolain; But For This...Lajos Zilahy; A Shot In The Forest, Felix Salten; The Night Before Chancellorsville, F. Scott Fitzgerald; A Place To Lay One's Head, Waldo Frank; The Kid Across the River, William McFee; The Lonesome Vigilante, The Ears of Johnny Bear and A Snake of One's Own, John Steinbeck; You, The Phantom, Theodore Dreiser; Snowfall in Childhood, Ben Hecht; The Seven Men of Rouen, George Slocombe; Black Tobias And The Empire, Heinz Werner; The Five-Pengö Girl, Sandor Hunyady; Never Comes Monday, Eric Knight; The Girl From The River Barge, Walter Schoenstedt; The Whole World Is Outside, Manuel Komroff; August Afternoon, Erskine Caldwell; The Euthanasian Garden, Havelock Ellis; The Art Of Understanding Women, W. Béran Wolfe, M.D.; Queen In The Parlour Car, Joseph E. McDougall; Are Wrestlers People? Westbrook Pegler; Hide Your Eyes and The Old School Tie, Edward Acheson; A Shipment of Mute Fate, Martin Storm; An Idea For A Story, André Maurois; So Smells Defeat, George Antheil; Three Dead Geese, Vincent Sheean; Token Of Esteem, Harlan Ware; Pim and Pooh, Ferdinand Czernin; The Monument, Irwin Shaw; Deutchsland Über Alles, J.L. Campbell; The Bronze Baffler, Hart Stilwell; An Adventureee Retires, Hilaire du Berrier; The Scent of Fear, Jack Melville; Three Skeleton Key, George C. Toudouze; Leningen Versus The Ants, Carl Stephenson. -
An A-Z of eccentrics and eccentricities for teenagers. Featuring: the artist who exhibited an exploding bull; the Russian admiral who invented the circular battleship; the Duchess who rode through London in a boat on wheels; the Marquis who erected a tombstone to his leg and many more. A real collection of eccentrics, nutters, enthusiasts and ideas-people - and all crazy in the best possible way. -
A compilation by Esquire Magazine that features the literary leading lights. In this volume: With Other Eyes, Luigi Pirandello; Turnabout Is Fair, D.H. Lawrence; Fly Away Ladybird, Conrad Aiken; Reflexshuns On Iggerunce, Ezra Pound; Exit The Boob, e.e. cummings; Arnold Pentland, Thomas Wolfe; The Celebrity, John Dos Passos; The Godly Warrior, Thomas Mann; Three Acts Of Music, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Life In A Prison Cell, Maxim Gorki; Heavenly And Earthly Love, Ferenc Molnar; The Tithe Of The Lord, Theodore Dreiser; The Butterfly And The Tank, Ernest Hemingway; Dreiser At Spoon River, Edgar Lee Masters; The Captain Is A Card, Nelson Algren; An Evening On The House, H.L. Mencken; Gentlemen, This Is Revolution, Sinclair Lewis; This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise, J.D. Salinger; The Language Of Men, Norman Mailer; St. Francis Xavier's Bones, Evelyn Waugh; The Chinese Dog, Alberto Moravia; Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley; The Case Of Arthur Miller, John Steinbeck; The Question Of Ezra Pound, Richard H. Rovers; The Misfits, Arthur Miller; Leaving The Yellow House, Saul Bellow; Letters To Alice Lockett, Bernard Shaw; Memoirs Of Mencken And Fitzgerald, George Jean Nathan. -
When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school. Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ever meet him? -
No collection of nautical fiction would be complete without the inclusion of Tom Cringle's Log, a novel that - together with the works of Marryat - became a cornerstone of the genre on its publication some 150 years ago. Told in an irresistible and immediate style, the story follows the life of young midshipman Tom Cringle: his imprisonment in occupied Germany by Napoleon's forces, his West Indian cruise on the Torch, a British man-of-war, his daring escape from West Indian pirates and his ultimate promotion to the officer ranks. Edited by Ernest Rhys. -
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. -
First published in 1952, it's obvious that even then there was a growing concern for the amount of road deaths. This book sets out clearly and comprehensively the chief causes of road accidents: speed, DUI, failure to observe rules, faults and many others - and gives sound advice on how to avoid them. Also included are sections on parking, heavy vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians. Nothing much has changed since this book's publication in 1952. The only thing needed to bring this book up to date is a section on switching off mobile phones while driving! -
In 404 B.C., the Spartans demolished the famous Long Walls of Athens, signalling the complete victory of the city of Lycurgus and the subordination of all Greece to the Spartan interest. Yet within forty years, the pride of Sparta had been humbled, their glory gone for ever. Xenophon lived through this time; despite being Athenian he was intimate with some of the most influential people in Sparta, including King Agesilaus. Here is the on-the-spot documentation of the last years of the independent cities of Hellas, by someone who saw it all. Translated by Rex Warner. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/imperial-caesar-rex-warner/
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The narrative of a voyage around the world in a Windjammer in 1919. This is a vintage glimpse into the sea-faring lifestyle of times past with an authentic account of a life lived at sea; a true and spirited account of a phase of sea-life now long past, fascinating from the very vividness and sincerity of its telling. Retold with the lucidity and fondness that can only belong to one who has lived it and loved it, A Gipsy of the Horn - Life in a Deep-Sea Sailing Ship is highly recommended for readers with an interest in the history and development of sailing. With beautiful pen and ink drawings by N.A.D. Wallis. -
From the Author's Note: The stories in this volume record happenings in men's lives which interested me during years of wandering among the bushmen and natives of Cape York Pensinsula; the pearlers, trochus and beche-de-mer getters of the Coral Sea; the native islanders of Torres Strait; the beach-combers of the Great Barrier Reef...with two exceptions all are transcripts of fact or are largely based on fact...I hope Colonel Woodman, Bert Vigden of Thursday Island, Bert Jardine of Somerset and others will not mind their names being mentioned. My old mate Dick Welch, I know, will not; neither will "Scandalous" Graham. "Scandalous" may swear a lot and say harsh things about me, then quietly show the book in almost every shearing shed in New South Wales and Queensland, That is, if he's "out of trouble." It doesn't get any better than that!
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Short articles of a Fifties vintage: cigarettes, awful food, marriage, trying to keep up appearances, life, death, growing up, getting a job and becoming a young man...not to mention a Dutch Reformed religious upbringing. Many of de Vries' quirkies have become part of the vernacular: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be and Deep down, he's shallow....or his comparison of a conscience to a car brake... because it doesn’t work in emergencies, only when one is morally parked. His first novel, The Tunnel of Love, became a Broadway play and a movie with Doris Day and Gig Young. Chapters include: Flesh and the Devil; A Cold Potato; Requiem for a Noun; Life Among the Winesaps and more with equally intriguing titles. He had a fabulous gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, snobbery and grandly silly dialogue. -
How to survive minor social embarrassments - and somewhat reminiscent of The Grumpy Old Men television series! Have you ever queued, exasperated by the repeated cry of 'Next!' and asked the man in front, 'Are you deaf?' only to discover that he is? Who hasn't tried to slip under the covers before the lover of their dreams discovers they're wearing chewing-gum-grey undies? If you have, then Guy Browning is here with an invaluable guide to surviving such toe-curling moments. His advice includes: What to do when you discover the man you beeped, flashed and swore at for driving too slowly is your girlfriend's father who you'll meet for the first time that night. How to convince your friends that shoes with loo-paper attached to the soles are now a cutting-edge fashion statement. How to argue, persuasively, that George Eliot is in fact a man. Also included: how to use a library; how to push a shopping trolley; how to shop by catalogue and how to exaggerate. -
Book IV of The Courtney Chronicles. A holiday in Italy for Susan Courtney, the prospect of meeting new friends and the even more delightful prospect of meeting up with an old and very agreeable friend. This friend from times past has come to a crossroads in his life - will he choose the upward path, or the downward? Illustrated by John Harcourt Finnie. -
Set in England prior to the coronation of Elizabeth II. Mrs 'Arris is a charlady, hard-working, cheerful and always obliging. When she sees the beautiful Dior gown that one of her titled ladies will wear to the Coronation festivities, Mrs. 'Arris is determined to have one too. And she can - if she gives up catching the bus...and going to the cinema...and going to the pub for a drop of gin with her neighbour...and if she takes on extra work and does some sewing from home...She faces all manner of obstacles and snobbery and unwittingly does some good on her journey, but she is determined. Made into a beautiful film, Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris with Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Ada 'Arris. and Omar Sharif - and recently remade. -
Who is Kinky Friedman? He's an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, defender of stray animals and former satirical columnist. Friedman shifted his creative focus from music in the 70s to writing in the 80s - detective novels written in the style of Raymond Chandler and featuring a fictionalised version of himself, solving crimes in New York City and dispensing jokes, wisdom, recipes, charm and whiskey in equal measure. In this omnibus volume: Armadilloes and Old Lace: The Kinkster decides to take a break from big-city murder but scarcely does he arrive in Texas before his friend, Judge Knox, turns up wanting to talk about four little old ladies. No, they don't want the Kinkster to join a quilting bee - they're - er - dead... God Bless John Wayne: The Kinkster's back in his Lower Manhattan loft, having taken on the seemingly easy task of helping his friend Ratso find his true birth mother - an assignment which leads to untidy mayhem involving a couple of corpses and a plot to kill Ratso... The Love Song Of J. Edgar Hoover: The Kinkster is hired by Polly Price to find her missing husband but he's let himself in for far more trouble than he bargained for - and when Village Irregular Mike McGovern disappears along with the lovely Polly, Kinky comes to the natural conclusion: The FBI is after him! Cover art by Mick Brownfield. -
Barbed Wire: Hall Caine
$12.00Set 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. -
The story of Judah Ben-Hur did not end with the Crucifixion. In its terrible aftermath, Judah joins with the gentle Joseph of Arimathea to bring Christianity to the Romans. Fate intervenes again, and Judah must fight and strive through adventure, heartbreak and danger before he finds peace and love again. The cast of characters include Nero, his incestuous mother Agrippina, the passionate Leah and General Seutonius in the settings of Rome, Ancient Britain and the Mediterranean. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/ben-hur-lew-wallace-2/ -
A compendium of comic pieces that take a light-hearted look at life, from cross the globe and across the decades. In this volume: Special Delivery, Richard Gordon; The O'Conors Of Castle O'Conor, Anthony Trollope; When In Rome, Peter Ustinov; Butch Minds The Baby, Damon Runyan; A Linguistic Experiment, Jerome K. Jerome; The Whore Of Mensa, Woody Allen; Introduction To Cold Comfort, Stella Gibbons; How I Killed A Bear, Charles Dudley Warner; A Day In The Life Of A Milligan, Spike Milligan; Adventures Of A Y.M.C.A. Lad, H.L. Mencken; The House Of Fahy, E.Œ Somerville and Martin Ross; 'Not A Porthouse Man', Tom Sharpe; Getting A Glass Of Water, Frederick W. Cozzens; The Wrong Boot, Evelyn Waugh; The Adventures Of A Christmas Turkey, Mark Lemon; The Stalled Ox, Saki; Darrowby Show, James Herriot; The Phantom Elopement, Charles Dickens; The Waltz, Dorothy Parker; A Visit To Grandpa's, Dylan Thomas; The Hand That Riles The World, O. Henry; Without The Option, P.G. Wodehouse; Top Of The League, A.G. Macdonell; The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society Of Mrs Rasselyerbrown, Stephen Leacock; Body And Soul, Alan Coren; The Brief Engagement Of Lupin Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith; 'Absolutely Ghastly!' H.E. Bates; Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog; Kurt Vonnegut Jr; The Idol's Eye, S.J. Perelman; The Morning After, Kingsley Amis; A Visit To Niagra, Mark Twain; The Fiancé, Nancy Mitford; The Night The Bed Fell, James Thurber; An Italian's View Of A New England Winter, James M. Bailey. Cover art by Alistair Graham. -
The title of this novelty item is from a saying of King Edward VII: "I don't care what the people do, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses." Macdonald was frequently compared to humourist Lennie Lower, although Macdonald's humour is more sophisticated. He also loved the comic-scope of 'the little bloke who gets pushed around'. Therefore, we see our hero being browbeaten by his bank manager, getting lost in the Paris underground, in Darlo Police Station and musing on such diverse topics as literature, travelling, eating and drinking. With an introduction by 'Nino Culotta'. Illustrated by Clarrie King. Very Australian humour.
