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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. -
Black Ivory: Norman Collins
$20.00Comparable 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. -
Blackie’s All-Story Book
$30.00In 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.
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