Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
Member of ANZAAB - Australia
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Asia
Children's Books
Literature: Modern
Middle East
Voyages & Exploration
Mountaineering
Antiquarian bookshop in Castlemaine, Victoria, with extensive online holdings.
Key strengths in travel (particularly mountaineering and polar), Aboriginal Australia, art, literature and children’s books.
Online stock listed with Abebooks / Biblio.
Contact Information
Email: araps@alassoc.com.au
Phone: +0410 650 923
Website: http://www.mountofalexbookstore.com/
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273 Barker St Castlemaine, 3450 Australia Get Directions
Store Hours
Saturday and Sunday 11-5pm (most weekends)
Other times by chance or appointment.
Best contact us to check in advance of a visit.
Highlights
Sweeney Reed. Moments of Mind [Keepsakekeep e]
$750
1st Edition 1977. St Kilda: Tolarno Galleries.
16mo. original printed paper wraps; pp. [iv], with photo portrait. Catalogue from the artist's first solo exhibition of prints held May 25th - June 17th 1977. No. 74 of 120 copies signed by Sweeney Reed, with offset-lithographic print on front cover. Rare self-published 'keepsake' from the boy at the centre of the Heide circle 'who had five parents or maybe none at all' (The Age). He took his life two years later aged 35. A fine copy.
Alan.W. Cooper. The Men Who Breached the Dams [with] Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz
$3500
1983. London: William Kimber
2 vols, 8vo. Original black boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 224 (last blank); 254 (last blank), with illustrations. Ex-libris RAF Serviceman Eric Wooff, with his bookplate and the author’s inscription to him in both volumes, as well as tipped-in autographs from over 50 aircrew who served in the squadron. A unique document of the successful 1943 raid on the German dams and the later service history of the men who took part, complemented with signatures from a large proportion of the survivors. A very good set.
William Camden. Britannia sive Florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, etc.
$1250
5th edition. 1600. London: George Bishop
8vo. Full modern blindstamped leather gilt, decorated title page, 7 plates of Roman Coins, 1 plate of Roman Altars, 1 plate view of Stonehenge, and various figures in text of ancient British coins and Roman inscriptions. Text in Latin, with place names in English. A monumental study of ancient British history and archaeology, and the first to undertake a county by county account of the nation, including the earliest reference to Stonehenge. A good copy.
The Goodies File
$500
First Edition 1974. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson
4to. original pictorial laminated boards; pp. Unpaginated, with illustrations.
Signed by all three principal cast of the iconic 1970s surreal sketch comedy show, which remained a staple of ABC early evening entertainment well into the 1990s. Scarce.
A very good copy.
George R.R. Martin. A Game of Thrones. Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire
$2500
First Edition 1996. London: Voyager - Harper Collins.
8vo. original red boards gilt in dustwrapper;
pp. [viii (last blank)], 696 (last blank), with two maps.
A very good copy of the first book in the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' sequence. Uncommon and highly sought after.
John Buchan. Poems. Scots and English
$1250
First Large Paper Edition 1917. London: T.C. and E.C. Jack, Limited.
8vo. original blue cloth backed boards, spine label; pp. 106.
No. 3 of a limited edition of 50 large paper copies, signed by the author, John Buchan.
Additionally inscribed to Sir William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923), a Scottish minister, journalist, editor and man of letters, including founding editor of The Bookman from 1891,with tipped-in handwritten signed presentation note on Foreign Office letterhead. Also included is a handwritten signed letter from his sister, Anna Buchan (1877-1948).
Lyall, Alan. The First Descent of the Matterhorn. A Bibliographical Guide to the 1865 Accident & Its Aftermath
$150
First Edition 1997. Llandysul: Gomer Press.
8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 674, with illustrations.
Signed by the author, Alan Lyall.
A comprehensive account of the tragic descent of the Matterhorn, following its successful first ascent via the Hörnli Ridge in 1865 by a party of seven including Edward Whymper. Four fell to their deaths on the way down, and the ensuing controversy dogged Whymper to the end of his life.
A fine copy.