{"product_id":"secondhand-vintage-hardbacks-bargain-book-box-sp4009","title":"Secondhand Vintage Hardbacks Bargain Book Box SP4009","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Vintage Hardbacks Bargain Book Box SP4009\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEighteen hardbacks in dust jackets from the 1950s and 1960s — John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country, Daphne du Maurier’s The Glass-Blowers, Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk, Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower, Françoise Gilot’s Life with Picasso, and more. A collector’s box of mid-century Book Club and early editions. Please note these are secondhand copies in vintage condition and the books may show wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shoes of the Fisherman — Morris West — A Ukrainian archbishop is released from a Soviet labour camp and rises unexpectedly to the papacy; West’s 1963 novel anticipated a Polish pope sixteen years before John Paul II. A bestseller of remarkable prescience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold — John le Carré — The novel that established le Carré as the definitive writer of Cold War espionage; Alec Leamas is sent on one final mission across the Berlin Wall. Published 1963. One of the twentieth century’s great novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCooper’s Creek — Alan Moorehead — The definitive account of the doomed Burke and Wills expedition across Australia; Moorehead writes history with the pace of a thriller. A landmark of Australian non-fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplaining the Atom — Selig Hecht \u0026amp; Eugene Rabinowitch — A 1950s popular science account of nuclear physics and atomic energy by two scientists; a period document of how science was communicated to the public in the atomic age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Glass-Blowers — Daphne du Maurier — Du Maurier’s 1963 novel about her Huguenot ancestors, glassmakers driven from France by religious persecution; quieter than Rebecca or Jamaica Inn, but deeply felt. Based on meticulous research.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCry the Beloved Country — Alan Paton — Paton’s 1948 novel about a Black South African priest who travels to Johannesburg to find his son and discovers the true costs of apartheid. One of the most important political novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Watch Tower — Elizabeth Harrower — Harrower’s devastating 1966 novel, in which two sisters become trapped in the orbit of a manipulative and dangerous man in postwar Sydney. Rediscovered in the 2010s as one of Australian literature’s essential works.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prize — Irving Wallace — A group of Nobel Prize recipients travel to Stockholm and find their professional and personal lives disrupted by the week’s events; Wallace’s 1962 bestseller is meticulously researched and compulsively plotted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDynasty — Tony Morphett — The Australian novel and television tie-in following a family’s rise through the political and social structures of twentieth-century Australia; an important document in Australian popular fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLife with Picasso — Françoise Gilot \u0026amp; Carlton Lake — Gilot’s memoir of her decade as Picasso’s companion, written with Carlton Lake; one of the most frank and intelligent accounts of living with genius ever published. Picasso attempted to suppress it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Second Lady — Irving Wallace — The Soviet Union replaces the American First Lady with a double in Wallace’s 1980 political thriller; a premise that generates extraordinary tension in the hands of a supremely skilled popular novelist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Long Walk — Slavomir Rawicz — The account of Rawicz’s escape from a Siberian labour camp in 1941 and his 4,000-mile walk to freedom through Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas. One of the great survival narratives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Age of Chivalry — Arthur Bryant — Bryant’s account of mediaeval England and the chivalric code that shaped it; richly researched popular history from one of the most celebrated British historians of the mid-twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mottled Lizard — Elspeth Huxley — The sequel to The Flame Trees of Thika; Huxley’s memoir of growing up in East Africa, continuing through her teenage years in England and return to Kenya. Beautifully written colonial memoir.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Pattern of Islands — Arthur Grimble — Grimble’s classic 1952 memoir of his years as a colonial administrator in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands; witty, generous, and full of extraordinary anthropological observation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tontine — Thomas B. Costain — A sprawling historical novel following a tontine — a financial arrangement between many survivors — from its formation after Waterloo through to the Victorian era as the survivors dwindle. Costain at his most ambitious.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Women’s Room — Marilyn French — French’s 1977 feminist landmark, following a woman’s journey from housewife to Harvard and the full reckoning of what that journey costs. One of the most important American novels of the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Battle of the Villa Fiorita — Rumer Godden — A woman leaves her husband and children for an Italian filmmaker; her children’s arrival to reclaim her sets up the moral struggle at the centre of this Godden novel. Characteristically precise and unsentimental.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50595594141915,"sku":"SP4009","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4009.jpg?v=1791418579","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-vintage-hardbacks-bargain-book-box-sp4009","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}