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First published in 1879, a collection of over 1700 recipes from over 250 old and famous Virginia families was regareded as the essence and mysteries of Old Virginian 'housewifery' and was acclaimed by the President's wife, Mrs Rutherford B. Hayes. There are recipes for literally everything as well as chapters on remedies and behaviour in the 'Sick Room', housecleaning, restoring old clothes and miscellaneous recipes for cosmetics and cures. -
A very unusual and compelling tale of the Three Wise Men and their possible origins: Melchior, the ascetic scholar; Gaspar, the barbarian; and Balthazar, the slave who has escaped from a cruel, vicious mistress. The story begins with Mary, preparing for her marriage to Joseph and learning of her appointed task from the Archangel Gabriel; then the scene moves to Korea, where Melchior, the aged astronomer, has left his home to follow the star whose coming had been so long foretold. Each man reveals his motives and emotions as they make a hazardous physical journey - there are robbers and inn-keepers, Romans and Greeks, princes and Jews - but there is also the spiritual journey of each of these men...the journey that will lead them to a humble destination of the greatest importance. -
At twenty-nine, Bettger was a failed insurance salesman. By the time he was forty he owned a country estate and could have retired. What are the selling secrets that turned Bettger’s life around from defeat to unparalleled success and fame as one of the highest paid salesmen in America? Here he reveals his personal experiences and explains the foolproof principles that he developed and perfected. He shares instructive anecdotes and step-by-step guidelines on how to develop the style, spirit, and presence of a winning salesperson. He covers: the power of enthusiasm; how to conquer fear; the key word for turning a skeptical client into an enthusiastic buyer; the quickest way to win confidence; the seven golden rules for closing a sale. This was first published in 1951 and the times have changed - but people don't. There is plenty that is still applicable today. -
Inimitable (definition): that which defies imitation. For years, Mikes wrote witty articles and books on every aspect of British life, pricking pomposity and praising decency. Contains chapters on how to avoid travelling, wine snobbery, television, how to be class conscious and how to remain poor. Mikes may have emigrated from Hungary - but he wouldn't live anywhere else. Illustrated by Nicholas Bentley. -
Nigel Molesworth offers advice for new students at St. Kustards: How to Succeed as a New Bug; How to Write Home; How to Be Topp in Latin; How to Be Topp in Everything using The Molesworth Bogus Report and How to Survive Christmas. From the duo that brought St Trinians to the world. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. -
A recent census taken among cats show that approximately 100% neurotic. Of course they are. As a human, you have everything they want and you refuse to share it. You take up too much room in the bed, keep the best food for yourself, don't offer them a seat at the table and hang on to the remote control for the TV. This cat's-eye view of thew world is full of helpful pointers, such as:- Don't try to give your cat a bath. Cats wash themselves several times a day;
- The best place to keep food out of a cat's reach is your safe, provided the cat doesn't know the combination;
- If your cat is willing to share your bed with you, he gets first crack at the pillow, blankets and any space he wants. You get what's left over;
- Explain the rules to your cat. Then follow his;
- A cat's greatest gift to his owner is that he lends you his presence. That should be more than enough.
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Mikes, Hungarian immigrant to Britain, was always bewildered by the English and their customs. He took it in stride - eventually - and began his observations of British life and thence onward to encompass the rest of the world. He realises that people are not only funny, but they're at their funniest when trying to be serious. Mikes went to the United Nations and found them all being hilariously serious! -
Fun fantasy and time stories: I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: A town does not want to forget its past and begins producing random - and physical - 'memories'. Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere: What happens when two work colleagues find a novelty shop - with a difference. Where the Cluetts Are: A couple find their perfect house in an old blueprint - and the house seems to have found the perfect owners. Hey, Look At Me! A shy young author dies, but still wants to leave his mark on the world...The Coin Collector: A man picks up an odd coin in his change - which allows him to visit a parallel universe and live two different lives. The Love Letter: When a young man buys an old desk and finds a young lady's letter to an unknown lover, he answers it - and gets a reply. Also in this volume: A Possible Candidate For The Presidency; The Prison Legend; Time Has No Boundaries and The Intrepid Aeronaut. A book for the serious collector - very hard to get. -
Here we go again! This book is dedicated to all those who thought rugby league was just an excuse for grown men to earn big money for having a good time. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty..and oh, what tales they tell of murder, mayhem and mystery on the Rugby League Express. Just who was the player found smuggling a suitcase full of baked beans into his motel room? And why did Phil Blake refuse to have a shower at Brookvale Oval? And yes, the one questio all true-blue rugby league fans want answered - Who booby-trapped Terry Hill's undies? It's all here - and more - as we tell the tale of Fweddie's Fearsome Firecwacker, give the inside info on what happened to Sterlo's mouthguard before the Wigan Test in 1986 and report the first known case of elastic acid build-up. With cartoons by 'Boo' Bailey. -
So you thought rugby league was a serious game played by hulking blokes in short pants. Think again. It might be tough out there on the field, but rugby league players love a laugh as much as the restof us. That's right - Blocker Roach and Mark Sargent are a frightening sight in full flight, but sit them down, put a cold beer in their hand and they'll spin a yarn with the best of them. And 20 more of footie's finest, ex-players and commentators do just that. Wally Lewis, Andrew Ettingshausen, Peter Sterling and more recall their hilarious moments in the game and give the inside guff of some of league's greatest mysteries and tall tales. You've heard of the 'eye of the tiger' - now read all about Tommy Raudonikus and the heart of the bull. There's the time Dallas Donnelly ate out the kitchen in Singapore and Mark Geyer stopped traffic in Paris - and just who was the Mysterious Underpants Phantom of Redfern Oval? Cartoons by 'Boo' Bailey. -
Book 3 of the Stories From History series. Contains William Of Normandy; Hereward The Wake; The Bridal Of Norwich; In The New Forest; Emperor And Pope; The Adventures Of Robert Guiscard; The First Crusade; Richard The Lionheart; More Adventures Of King Richard; Marco Polo; St. Thomas Of Canterbury; The Abbot Of Bury St. Edmonds; St. Francis; The Coming Of The Friars; On Pilgrimage; King John And The Barons; The Builder; The Prince Of Wales; Robert Bruce; William Tell; Merchants And Pirates; Six Brave Men; The Manor of Oakthorpe; Dick Whittington; Five Hundred Years Ago; For St. George And England; Saint Joan; Prince Henry Of Portugal; Moors And Christians; The Tale Of An Old Book. Handsomely illustrated with black and white plates and engravings. -
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. -
In this volume: To An Old Mate; In the Days When the World Was Wide; Faces In The Street; The Roaring Days; For'ard; The Drover's Sweetheart; Out Back; The Free-Selector's Daughter; 'Sez You'; Andy's Gone With Cattle; Jack Dunn Of Nevertire; Trooper Campbell; The Sliprails And The Spur; Past Carin'; The Glass On The Bar; The Shanty On The Rise; The Vagabond; Sweeney; Middleton's Rouseabout; The Ballad Of The Drover; Taking His Chance; When The 'Army' Prays For Watty; The Wreck Of The 'Derry Castle'; Ben Duggan; The Star Of Australasia; The Great Grey Plain; The Song Of Old Joe Swallow; Corny Bill; Cherry-Tree Inn; Up The Country; Knocked Up; The Blue Mountains; The City Bushman; Eurunderee; Mount Bukaroo; The Fire At Ross's Farm; The Teams; Cameron's Heart; The Shame Of Going Back; Since Then; Peter Anderson And Co.; When the Children Come Home; Dan, The Wreck; A Prouder Man Than You; The Song And The Sigh; The Cambaroora Star; After All; Marshall's Mate; The Poets Of The Tomb; Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers; The Ghost. Cover art by Walter Stackpoole. -
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. -
A fascinating blend of Biblical commentary and travel narrative that characterised its predecessor, In The Steps Of The Master. Morton set himself the task of following the the Missionary Journeys of St. Paul and tracing the route by which Christianity came to the West. He made four journeys to the Near East, covering Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Macedonia, Greece, Cypress, Malta, Rhodes and the City of Rome. Morton wanted to portray St Paul as a Saint and a man, and what problems he would have encountered as he set out to Christianise the pagan world, to describe the world in which he lived and to contrast the cities of his day with their modern equivalents. Photographic illustrations. -
In The Wet: Nevil Shute
$15.00Written in 1953 and set 30 years in the future, there is an inner story and an outer story: the first crowded with the great figures of the British empire and the second set in the wilds of Queensland during the rains from November to April when a strange adventure takes place. Great Britain is still great - its people determined, tenacious and disciplined. A young airman and the girl he loves find themselves at the very hub of the affairs of Empire during the course of a very astonishing Constitutional crisis. -
David is the art student son of the Minister for Communications. He knows his father has a chance of becoming Prime Minister but he also knows that his father's brother is a homosexual living with a flamboyant young actor. Even a touch of scandal will bring ruin. So it strikes David as odd when his battle to live away from home is successful on condition that he becomes his uncle's lodger. Set in the England of the late 1960's. The author, Martyn Goff, was one of the creators of the Booker Prize and he wrote several novels on the theme of homosexuality at a time when homosexuality in Britain was a criminal offence. -
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. -
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. -
'Being a brief account of certain famous women, each of them richly endowed with some quality that drives men mad, omitting no pertinent and unbelievable fact and based on a stupendous amount of first-hand and second-hand research, some of it in books.' A humorous look at history's most famous women: Eve ('An Inquisitive Woman'); Delilah ('A Deceitful Woman'); Helen Of Troy ('A Too-Beautiful Woman'); Lady Godiva ('An Exhibitionist'); Elizabeth I ('A Headstrong Woman'); Lucrezia Borgia ('A Woman With Unpleasant Relatives'); Marie Antoinette ('A Frivolous Woman') and many more. Illustrated by Campbell Grant. -
The evergreen classic tale of the March sisters begins ten years after Little Men. Plumfield is still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Although her 'little men' are now adults, they are still her 'boys'. Restless Dan looks towards new frontiers, but his good heart and efforts to protect a naive man lands him in jail; Emil has gone to sea and will experience shipwreck and sorrow before he sees Plumfield again and Nat, the musician, is ready to go abroad and study music - and he gets some other lessons in life as well. Meg's youngest daughter Josie is stage-struck and Amy worries that her only daughter Beth will make an unwise marriage. Apart from worrying about her 'boys', Jo inadvertently gets into another scrape when her privacy is invaded after one of her books becomes a best-seller. -
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Joyce’s Little Maid: Nellie Cornwall
$35.00$30.00Religious Tract Society - improving stories for children. Research shows that this was published in 1936 after the author's death in 1923. -
In the reign of James II, rejected love turns the exquisite, soulful Anthony Armadale into the grim, misogynistic outlaw Captain Midnight, the terror of the wealthy autocrats who consider themselves above the law. Encouraging him in his daring interventions between tyranny and and its victims, the little parson Aeneas Wade never guesses his identity. But the lovely Lady Clarissa Fane sees through the bitterness to the true man. This was Farnol's last book, finished in rough form before his death and edited for publication by his widow, Mrs. Phyllis Farnol.
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A softcover book of black and white photographs in the Katoomba-Leura area, circa 1930s. Locations include views of Megalong Valley; Leura Cascades; Bridal Veil and Weeping Rock; Narrow Neck Peninsula; Katoomba Falls; The Three Sisters; Pantom Falls; Echo Point; Federal Pass and more. There is also a photo credited to Mr H. Phillips, taken in 1909 and which earned the title 'War Clouds' for its astonishing imagery. -
A wonderful, bawdy, completely unsubtle nonsense of Upstairs, Downstairs and in my lady's chamber - and with more sauce than the average Carry On! The elderly Lord Cockshute - drunk, broke and trouserless - is chasing Mimi the maid who has somehow lost her uniform; gamekeeper Mellons and the parlourmaid have found a new and intriguing way to make daisy chains; Lady Kitty is avoiding the clutches of the revolting Snotty Shuttlecock who would never get into the house - let alone Lady Kitty - but for the money the family owe him; the groom also has designs on Lady Kitty, and is strangely jealous of a black stallion called Ramrod; Hampton, the faithful butler, is desperately trying to conceal the truth about his shameful past; and Viscount Standfast is experimenting with rubber in his laboratory but can't think of a use for his latest unusual invention. With black and white photos from the 1976 film which starred Diana Dors, Jack Wild and Carmen Silvera. -
Kim: Rudyard Kipling
$25.00Set in 19th century India, this is the tale of Kim - Kimball O'Hara - the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in an India under British rule, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. He befriends an aged Tibetan lama and accompanies him on a spiritual journey. He is also recruited by a native member of the British secret services as a spy but he is recognised by his late father's regimental chaplain and is sent to a good English school. Kim maintains contact with his secret service friends - and he will not only learn to serve his country, but also will learn to fulfil the lama's and his own dream of Enlightenment. -
Kundu: Morris L. West
$30.00Set in the Highland valleys of New Guinea, a white man meddles with the age-old mysteries of the native tribes. There is Kumo, the sorcerer, jealous of the white man's power; Kurt Sonderfield, owner of a coffee plantation; Gerda, his wife - and the men who love her - and N'Daria, the sensual native girl who shares the worlds of Kumo and Sonderfield.
