Through Darkest Pondelayo: The Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island
Serena Livingstone-Stanley
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1936
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Cloth
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An illustrated first edition of this exciting novel following two Englishwomen on a Cannibal Island. First edition. Illustrated with thirteen plates. Collated, complete. A satirical novel based on the author's time spent traveling in Europe, acting as a parody of English tourists abroad. Written by Lady Joan Lindsay, under the pseudonym Serena Livingstone-Stanley, an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist and visual artist. In the original purple cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with light rubbing to the joints and minor shelf wear to the extremities. The odd mark to the board. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the extremities. Good. Seller Inventory # 843T55
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Title: Through Darkest Pondelayo: The Adventures of...
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Publication Date: 1936
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: None
Condition: Good
Edition: First edition.
Book Type: book
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Through Darkest Pondelayo. An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island, by Serena Livingstone-Stanley. Edited by Rev. Barnaby Whitecorn DD
Published by
Chatto & Windus, London, 1936
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. Octavo, [viii], 200 pages plus 13 full-page plates (prototype Photoshop!). Blind-ruled purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; uneven loss of colour to the rear cover; free endpapers tanned; a very good copy (internally fine). Joan Lindsay's first book, published thirty-odd years before her hugely successful but somewhat less hilarious 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'. 'This work alone establishes Miss Serena Livingstone-Stanley as one of that gallant little band of intrepid women who through the ages have sailed uncharted seas, blazed virgin trails and braved the unmapped morasses of the primeval jungle. As a test of endurance alone . this book should certainly be read' (asserted the blurb on a dustwrappered copy we sold once upon a time). Seller Inventory # 126770
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Through Darkest Pondelayo. An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island. Edited by Rev. Barnaby Whitecorn D.D.
Published by
Chatto & Windus, London, 1936
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first novel. [viii] + 200pp including four pages of 'appendicites'. With a photographic frontispiece and twelve captioned black and white photographic plates. Purple cloth with very slightly dulled gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge dust soiled with a little wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Dealer inkstamp to the front pastedown. Binding a little tender at several gatherings. A good bright copy. No dust wrapper. A satirical parody of popular travel books, full of intentional grammatical errors and with the photographs comically edited to depict absurdist fearsome situations. Lindsay wrote the novel after returning from a tour of England and Europe, and intended it as a satire of the English abroad; the publisher 'entered fully into the spirit of the thing, presenting the book on exaggeratedly thick paper in the true manner of offering a book of tremendous importance', and the stirring title page poem is similarly contrived, both its author and his 'Anthology of the Homeland' being entirely fictitious. Over thirty years later Lindsay would write her most celebrated novel, 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'. Seller Inventory # ARC92097
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