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Seller: Ann Wendell, Bookseller, Oroville, U.S.A.Ann Wendell, Bookseller
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good softcover, some page ripple & previous owner blind stamp, otherwise clean & tight. Size 6x9 with 127 pages, index, signed by author on title page. Janet Collins drawings (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. hardcover, first edition with the complete number line starting with no. 1 on copyright page, signed and inscribed by the author on front endpaper "To Clifton, A strong book, hope you enjoy it, best Michael Collins, San Rafael, August 1987" fine conditi…on in a near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, corner of front endpaper clipped but repaired with clear tape, jacket put onto book slightly off center, a Dan Fortune Novel of Suspense Size: Octavo. Inscribed by Author.
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Published by University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1991
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1991. Hardcover. Signed by two of the illustrators, Bob Gress and Gerald Wiens. First Printing by line number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; scattered surface bumps. Bro…wn cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. 127 pp 4to. Kansas is a meeting ground for North American animals with a total of 610 species of land animals- birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians passing through the state. Four of the state's best wild life photographers combine 121 photographs to create a colorful sampler of the states biodiversity. Detailed captions full of little-known information about the habits and habitats of Kansas creatures are included. A clean pristine copy. Bob Gress, Gerald J. Wiens, Suzanna L. Collins, Joseph T. Collins (illustrator). Inscribed by Illustrator(s).
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 8vo. 2nd printing. Book issued in illustrated boards. The dust jacket is FINE. 224 pages. The interior is clean, but there is a couple of pages that have been paper clipped. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Now in Mylar. Selling quality books for 35 ye…ars. Signed by Author(s).
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- Signed
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 8vo. 2nd printing. Book issued in illustrated boards. The dust jacket is FINE. 253 pages. The interior is clean. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Now in Mylar. Selling quality books for 35 years. Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by St Martins Press 2010
Series: Lucky Santangelo, Book 7 of 10. Book 7 of 10 - Lucky Santangelo
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- Signed
Seller: Heroes Bookshop, Paris, CanadaHeroes Bookshop
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. this copy is tight and square wth a clean unmarked interior, some edge wear with a small tear to the dust cover and a remainder mark.flat signed on the FFEP by the author. Signed by Author.
Language: English
Published by St Martins Press: NY 1986
Series: Nathan Heller, Book 3 of 19. Book 3 of 19 - Nathan Heller
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, U.S.A.Avenue Victor Hugo Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition, first printing. With signed bookplate attached to half-title page; with b&w photographs. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 335 pages, black boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean, slight…ly worn dust jacket, with original price.
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Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, U.S.A.Books by White/Walnut Valley Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Dutton, New York. 1996. Hardcover. Stated First Printing/ First Printing by Line Number. Signed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($23.95); scant rubbing to panels. White p…aper over boards with maroon cloth overlay on the spine with bright red lettering on the spine. Red endpapers. 308 pp 8vo. In this electrifying new novel, international superstar Joan Collins invites you into an exclusive world, one of passion and intrigue, love and betrayal. Scintillating, sizzling and sinful, here is a story as irresistible as Joan Collins herself. This book goes beyond the typical Hollywood novel to present a portrait of a real woman searching for what every woman wants- a happy fulfilling life. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Prairie Sales Co, Live Oak, Calif 1990
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- Signed
Seller: Ann Wendell, Bookseller, Oroville, U.S.A.Ann Wendell, Bookseller
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Very good clean softcover, minor coverwear wear, corner bend. Size 6x9 with 249 pages. Signed by author on title page. History, genealogy of Collins family, Johnson County, Nebraska. Photographs (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Sleuth Books, FABA, Palm Coast, U.S.A.Sleuth Books, FABA
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book is a soft cover with 291 pages. Signed by J. R. Collins inside. Selling quality books for 40 years. Signed by Author(s).
- Hardcover
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- Signed
Seller: Sleuth Books, FABA, Palm Coast, U.S.A.Sleuth Books, FABA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Book is beautiful and issued in Hardcover. 253 pages. Light foxing to the page ends. The gorgeous dust jacket has not been price clipped, $7.95. Selling quality books for 40 years. Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by Hallett Hall 1978
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Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, U.S.A.All Booked Up
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Numbered and Signed First Edition. Bright red hardback with a gilt hedgehog on front cover. This book shows no wear. The DJ shows slight edge wear with a rectange shadow left from sticker removal. THIS IS NUMBER 334 OF 900 SIGNED COPIES. It has a full color, tipped in… plate following the title page. Collins, Harold (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
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- Signed
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, U.S.A.Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Dust Jacket. Signed bookplate on half title page. CLEAN near fine 8th printing hardcover with fine dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).
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Published by Modern Poetry Association, Chicago 1996
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, U.S.A.Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams)
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Add to basketCondition: FINE. First printing. Includes work by Billy Collins, Stephen Dunn, Marisa de los Santos, Sandra M. Gilbert, David Bottoms, T. Alan Broughton and more. SIGNED by Billy Collins at his poem "Marginalia." Ads. Very near fine in bright pink wrappers.
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Seller: About Books, Henderson, U.S.A.About Books
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Privately Published, 2013. INSCRIBED / SIGNED TWICE by the AUTHOR with a black sharpie on both the front and rear inside covers. Very Good condition. Flat, uncreased spine. Bright and shiny. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with photos of… the author with celebrities including Kevin Nealon, Dolly Parton, Mike Tyson, Garry Shandling, David Arquette, Lou Ferigno, Kenny G., Cher, Julio Iglesias, Paul Reisner, Darrell Hammond, Joe Montana, Ted Danson, etc. Cover praise from Chris Rock and Rosie O'Donnell. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 170pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). NOT a library discard (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Hallett Hall 1978
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Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, U.S.A.All Booked Up
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bright red hardback with a gilt hedgehog on front cover. This book shows no wear. The DJ shows slight edge wear with a darkening at folds. THIS IS NUMBER 13 OF 900 SIGNED COPIES. It has a full color, tipped in plate following the title page. Collins, Haro…ld (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by Whitecap Books Ltd, North Vancouver, B.C. 1987
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Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, CanadaCOOK AND BAKERS BOOKS
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket is without flaw, text has small black mark on bottom edge, 3 very small spots on front end page, flat signed "Doug Collins" on title page, otherwise appears unread. 6.25 X 9.25" 207 pages, published 1987. Doug Collins was British Columbia's most contr…oversial media person. He wrote about matters that most other columnists avoided including threats to freedom of speech. Many attempts were made to put Collins out of action. Human rights groups, academics, ethnic associations, clergymen and even an archbishop all tried to silence him. You may not agree with him, but you will have something to think about. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, U.S.A.All Booked Up
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Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This 106 pp. book is a collection of poems by the United States Poet Laureate from 2001 - 2003. Genuinely signed by him on the title page. Photos upon request. Signed by Author(s).
Mosaics of Meaning : Enhancing the Intellectual Life of Young Adults through Story
Vandergrift, Kay E. (edited by); Carol Jones Collins (signed by)
Language: English
Published by The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland and London 1996
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Seller: About Books, Henderson, U.S.A.About Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Lanham, Maryland and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1996. SIGNED (with just her first name) and dated (June 24, 1996) by Carol Jones Collins who is one of the book's contributing authors. NOT personalized to anyone. NOT a library discard. Near Fine conditio…n. Bright, shiny, clean and square. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp and unmarked. List of chapter notes and bibliography after each essay. Index. Bound in the original pale gray cloth, stamped in bright copper over black panels on the spine and front cover. Signed by Carol Jones Collins. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xii, 474pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Language: English
Published by Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1998
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. very nice 1st/1st signed edition. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesTHE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2000.
[Anthology, signed] Dove, Rita and David Lehman,editors. Billy Collins and Gary Soto, signed.
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Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st trade paperback printing. A collection of poems, "diverse in form, tone, style, stance and subject matter." Foreword by David Lehman, the series editor and an introduction by guest editor Rita Dove. Contributors include Kim Addonizzio, Brenda Hillman, A. R. Ammons, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Kizer, Derek…Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Gary Soto and many others. SIGNED by TWO poets: Billy Collins at "Man Listening to Disc" and Gary Soto at "Chit-Chat with the Junior League Women." Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments. 285 pp. Very good in illustrated wrappers (light crease on spine, some minor wear at corners).
DEADLY ALLIES: PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA, SISTERS IN CRIME COLLABORATIVE ANTHOLOGY
[Anthology - signed] Randisi, Robert J., and Susan Dunlap, editors; Max Allan Collins, signed.
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Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. Includes stories by Sara Paretsky, Max Allan Collins, Joan Hess, John Lutz, Michael Collins, Susan Dunlap, Loren Estleman, Jeremiah Healy, Nancy Pickard, Sue Grafton, Julie Smith and others. SIGNED by Max Allan Collins at his story. Foreword and brief notes preceding each story by the editor…s. ix, 369 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
More imagesTHE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1998.
Hollander, John & Lehman, David (editors), Billy Collins and Henri Cole, signed.
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Condition: NEAR FINE. 1st trade paperback printing. A significant collection of poems, reflecting the diversity of America - Contributors include A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Henri Cole, Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, Andrew Hudgins, Carolyn Kizer, Derek Walcott and many others. SIGNED by TWO poets at their poems: Henri Cole and Bill…y Collins. David Lehman is the series editor. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments. 332 pp. Near fine in wrappers. Uncommon signed.
Language: English
Published by Harper Business, New York 2001
Series: Good to Great, Book 1 of 6. Book 1 of 6 - Good to Great
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Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. Good dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). New York: Harper Business, 2001. SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his signature only). SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Good translucent dust jacket with two closed tears that have been reinforced with clear tape on the blank sid…e. NO owner's name. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. From the publisher: "The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study: For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards: Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons: The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings: The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept: (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,Â" comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people. Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?". SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his signature only). First Edition (so stated). Softcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (xvi), 300pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).
More imagesTHE KENYON REVIEW: New Series, Volume XXV (25), Number 1, Winter 2003.
Lynn, David H., editor. Billy Collins and Carol Muske Dukes, signed.
Language: English
Published by Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 2003
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Add to basketCondition: NEAR FINE. First printing. Includes stories by Gail Jones, Joseph Freda and Charles Wyatt; nonfiction by Taylor Stoehr, Ellen Bryant Voight; poetry by John Kinsella, Arthur Sze, , Mary Jo Salter, Marilyn Hacker and others; drama by Ann Marie Healy, book reviews and more. SIGNED by TWO authors at their poems - Billy Co…llins and Carol Muske-Dukes. Uncommon signed. Slightly oversized format. Cover design by Nanette Black. 178 pp plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. Among the contributors are Lawrence Block, Tom Franklin, Loren D. Estleman and more. SIGNED by FIVE authors: by Otto Penzler, series editor, on the title page with the comment 'These really are the best." and by 4 authors at their stories - David Corbett, Brendan…Du Bois , S, J. Rozan and Max Allan Collins, Notes on the contributors and a list of other distinguished stories of 2010. xv, 412 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (remainder line, date on last blank page) .
More imagesTHE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1997.
[Anthology, signed] Tate, James & Lehman, David,editors; Billy Collins, Gillian Conoley and Dana Gioia, signed.
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Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st trade paperback printing. A collection of 75 poems, reflecting the diversity of America - from Sherman Alexie and Ai through to Lewis Warsh and Charles Wright. Also includes contributions from Jorie Graham, Allen Ginsberg, Derek Walcott, Jayne Cortez, Donald Hall and many others. David Lehman is the ser…ies editor.Õ SIGNED by THREE poets - Billy Collins at "Lines Lost Among Trees," Gillian Conoley at " The Sky Drank In." and Dana Gioia at "The Litany." Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 269 pp. Very good in wrappers (corner slightly bumped.).
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Published by Harrap, London 1935
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp.319. Orange cloth. Corners and spine ends bumped & rubbed. Spine faded. Else good. SIGNED by author on half title page. Cuthbert Quinlan Dale Collins (1897-1956), author, was born on 9 April 1897 at Balmain, Sydney, third son of Michael John Collins, an Irish doctor who had been a sh…ip's surgeon in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., and his English wife Esther, née Copeland. Michael died of typhoid at Launceston, Tasmania, on 31 May 1898, before the birth of Dale's younger brother John, the future vice admiral and chief of the Australian Naval Staff. The family moved to Melbourne where, after minimal schooling much interrupted by illness, Collins became an office boy in a music warehouse. He was a voracious reader and incessantly wrote stories. After moving to a suburban newspaper as a jack of all trades, Collins joined the Melbourne Herald as reporter. He wrote for Table Talk, contributed stories to the Bulletin and in 1922 wrote Stolen or Strayed, a melodramatic crime novel, which the N.S.W. Bookstall Co. bought for £25 and published. The same year, with the blessing of the Herald and on his own recommendation as a 'brilliant writer' and the 'only man in Australia ideal for the job', he was engaged by A. Y. Gowen, an American millionaire then visiting Brisbane, to accompany him on a world tour aboard his motor yacht the Speejacks. The voyage provided a store of material from which Collins would draw repeatedly, but chiefly for the books that established his name: Sea-Tracks of the Speejacks Round the World (London, 1923) and his second novel, Ordeal (1924), a best seller which was produced as a play in 1925 and later filmed as The Ship from Shanghai. Collins made London his base in 1923 and travelled extensively until World War II. He wrote prolifically for British and American magazines, often completing a 6000-word story in a day. Between 1925 and 1936 he completed twelve novels, most of them sea romances pitched unashamedly at a popular readership. He is rightly criticized by Henry Mackenzie Green for wasting the promise of his talent in 'mere thrillerism', although his gift for description, especially of the sea in its different moods, is impressive. In all, he wrote thirty seven books, including the autobiographical Bright Vista (London, 1946) and Victoria's My Home Ground (Melbourne, 1951), and ten novels for children, most as Dale Collins, but some as 'Stephen Fennimore'. He also used the pen name 'Michael Copeland'. In 1948 he returned to Melbourne to settle in Malvern. A 'pudgy, friendly little man', described as 'rather innocuous-looking and owlish behind horn-rimmed glasses', Collins claimed no hobbies and few active interests. His first wife, Melbourne-born divorcee, Aileen Mayal Davies, née Edmondstone, whom he had married in London on 30 June 1927, had died in Jersey in 1933. On 16 August 1939 in London he married Kathleen Pratt, by whom he had two daughters. Collins died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, on 3 March 1956 and was buried with Catholic rites in Melbourne general cemetery. His estate was sworn for probate at £4886. An inscribed set of his books is held by the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria. (Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography).
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Published by Harrap, London 1933
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp.304.Orange cloth. Corners and spine ends bumped & rubbed. Spine faded.Else good. SIGNED by author on half title page. Cuthbert Quinlan Dale Collins (1897-1956), author, was born on 9 April 1897 at Balmain, Sydney, third son of Michael John Collins, an Irish doctor who had been a ship…'s surgeon in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., and his English wife Esther, née Copeland. Michael died of typhoid at Launceston, Tasmania, on 31 May 1898, before the birth of Dale's younger brother John, the future vice admiral and chief of the Australian Naval Staff. The family moved to Melbourne where, after minimal schooling much interrupted by illness, Collins became an office boy in a music warehouse. He was a voracious reader and incessantly wrote stories. After moving to a suburban newspaper as a jack of all trades, Collins joined the Melbourne Herald as reporter. He wrote for Table Talk, contributed stories to the Bulletin and in 1922 wrote Stolen or Strayed, a melodramatic crime novel, which the N.S.W. Bookstall Co. bought for £25 and published. The same year, with the blessing of the Herald and on his own recommendation as a 'brilliant writer' and the 'only man in Australia ideal for the job', he was engaged by A. Y. Gowen, an American millionaire then visiting Brisbane, to accompany him on a world tour aboard his motor yacht the Speejacks. The voyage provided a store of material from which Collins would draw repeatedly, but chiefly for the books that established his name: Sea-Tracks of the Speejacks Round the World (London, 1923) and his second novel, Ordeal (1924), a best seller which was produced as a play in 1925 and later filmed as The Ship from Shanghai. Collins made London his base in 1923 and travelled extensively until World War II. He wrote prolifically for British and American magazines, often completing a 6000-word story in a day. Between 1925 and 1936 he completed twelve novels, most of them sea romances pitched unashamedly at a popular readership. He is rightly criticized by Henry Mackenzie Green for wasting the promise of his talent in 'mere thrillerism', although his gift for description, especially of the sea in its different moods, is impressive. In all, he wrote thirty seven books, including the autobiographical Bright Vista (London, 1946) and Victoria's My Home Ground (Melbourne, 1951), and ten novels for children, most as Dale Collins, but some as 'Stephen Fennimore'. He also used the pen name 'Michael Copeland'. In 1948 he returned to Melbourne to settle in Malvern. A 'pudgy, friendly little man', described as 'rather innocuous-looking and owlish behind horn-rimmed glasses', Collins claimed no hobbies and few active interests. His first wife, Melbourne-born divorcee, Aileen Mayal Davies, née Edmondstone, whom he had married in London on 30 June 1927, had died in Jersey in 1933. On 16 August 1939 in London he married Kathleen Pratt, by whom he had two daughters. Collins died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, on 3 March 1956 and was buried with Catholic rites in Melbourne general cemetery. His estate was sworn for probate at £4886. An inscribed set of his books is held by the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria. (Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography).
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp.335. Green cloth. Corners and spine ends bumped & rubbed. Else good. SIGNED by author on half title page. Cuthbert Quinlan Dale Collins (1897-1956), author, was born on 9 April 1897 at Balmain, Sydney, third son of Michael John Collins, an Irish doctor who had been a ship's surgeon i…n the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., and his English wife Esther, née Copeland. Michael died of typhoid at Launceston, Tasmania, on 31 May 1898, before the birth of Dale's younger brother John, the future vice admiral and chief of the Australian Naval Staff. The family moved to Melbourne where, after minimal schooling much interrupted by illness, Collins became an office boy in a music warehouse. He was a voracious reader and incessantly wrote stories. After moving to a suburban newspaper as a jack of all trades, Collins joined the Melbourne Herald as reporter. He wrote for Table Talk, contributed stories to the Bulletin and in 1922 wrote Stolen or Strayed, a melodramatic crime novel, which the N.S.W. Bookstall Co. bought for £25 and published. The same year, with the blessing of the Herald and on his own recommendation as a 'brilliant writer' and the 'only man in Australia ideal for the job', he was engaged by A. Y. Gowen, an American millionaire then visiting Brisbane, to accompany him on a world tour aboard his motor yacht the Speejacks. The voyage provided a store of material from which Collins would draw repeatedly, but chiefly for the books that established his name: Sea-Tracks of the Speejacks Round the World (London, 1923) and his second novel, Ordeal (1924), a best seller which was produced as a play in 1925 and later filmed as The Ship from Shanghai. Collins made London his base in 1923 and travelled extensively until World War II. He wrote prolifically for British and American magazines, often completing a 6000-word story in a day. Between 1925 and 1936 he completed twelve novels, most of them sea romances pitched unashamedly at a popular readership. He is rightly criticized by Henry Mackenzie Green for wasting the promise of his talent in 'mere thrillerism', although his gift for description, especially of the sea in its different moods, is impressive. In all, he wrote thirty seven books, including the autobiographical Bright Vista (London, 1946) and Victoria's My Home Ground (Melbourne, 1951), and ten novels for children, most as Dale Collins, but some as 'Stephen Fennimore'. He also used the pen name 'Michael Copeland'. In 1948 he returned to Melbourne to settle in Malvern. A 'pudgy, friendly little man', described as 'rather innocuous-looking and owlish behind horn-rimmed glasses', Collins claimed no hobbies and few active interests. His first wife, Melbourne-born divorcee, Aileen Mayal Davies, née Edmondstone, whom he had married in London on 30 June 1927, had died in Jersey in 1933. On 16 August 1939 in London he married Kathleen Pratt, by whom he had two daughters. Collins died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, on 3 March 1956 and was buried with Catholic rites in Melbourne general cemetery. His estate was sworn for probate at £4886. An inscribed set of his books is held by the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria. (Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography).
