First American Printing of Shute's film play of the Viking portions of his earlier novel, An Old Captivity (1940). In Vinland the Good, Major Callender returns to his pre-war teaching job for only a single day teaching history when he tells hi [...]
First Printing of On the Beach, one from Shute's early "Australian" group of stories from the 1950's, the most well known of which to Americans are On the Beach and A Town Like Alice. Book is very near fine, none of the usual foxing, with a t [...]
1st Edition. SIGNED by Shute, without inscription, on the title page, First Printing of The Rainbow and the Rose, one of the "Australian" group of stories from the 1950's, the most well known of which to Americans are On the Beach and A Town L [...]
Easton Press, Norwalk, CT., 2014. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Signed by John Jude Palencar (illustrator). Limited to 1200 hand-numbered copies, still in publisher's shrink wrap, the haunting tales, treasures, poems of Poe -- including The [...]
"Once the juggernaut of collectivist dictatorship rolls over a country," Chaimberlin warned in 1937 (one year after Macmillan published Rand's We the Living), "irreparable damage is done to its standards of culture, to the quality of its human [...]