Chesterton, G K

Poems

CHESTERTON, G. K. · 2007 · von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Zonen

€35.00 ($39.31 | £29.22 | ¥6,210)

The Folio Society 234 pag - illustrated - with slip case First Edition - Fourth Printing London Very Good 3i2

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Dickens, Charles; John Leech [ills.]; G. K. Chesterton [intro.]; B. W. Matz [preface] · 2018 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$17.33 (€10.93 | $12.28 | £9.13 | ¥1,940)

London Arcturus Publishing pp. xviii, 166. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with embossed boards. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Gilt page edges. Facsimile illustrations and engravings by John Leech. Light shelfwear; very good+. A facsimile of the 1922 edition.

St. Francis of Assisi

CHESTERTON, G. K. · 1926 · Cotswold Internet Books

£47.50 (€56.89 | $63.89 | ¥10,095)

Hodder & Stoughton Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket 1926 reissue with seven colour illustrations by F. Cayley-Robinson - checked and all present with tissue protection; tightly bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt surround to lightly-chipped pic...

Istorii (Russian edition)

Chesterton, G. K. · 1981 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€35.80 ($40.20 | £29.89 | ¥6,352)

1981. Hardcover. Language: Russian. Condition: fair. Defects: spots, creases, tears. No illustrations. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with tracking after receipt of payment (bank transfer or PayPal); delivery time 12–28 business days i...

Father Brown and others

Chesterton, G. K. · 1987 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€36.40 ($40.88 | £30.39 | ¥6,459)

Hardcover. Language: Russian. Condition: good. Black-and-white illustrations. Published: 1987–1991. Original title: Otets Braun i drugie. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with tracking after receipt of payment (bank transfer or PayPal); ...

Selected Works Volume 1

Chesterton, G. K. · 1990 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€36.40 ($40.88 | £30.39 | ¥6,459)

Khudozh. lit., 1990. Hardcover. Language: Russian. Condition: good. Defects: signs of use. No illustrations. Original title: Izbrannye proizvedeniya T.1. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with tracking after receipt of payment (bank trans...

Complimentary Dinner to Mr J.C. Squire December 15 1932

J. C. Squire [in Honour of]; G. K. Chesterton [Chairman] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.82 | $107.61 | ¥17,002)

London, Not Stated, 1932. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce and beautifully illustrated menu card and seating plan for a dinner head in honour of English author, J. C. Squire in December 1932, with some 500 guests. A very scarce illustrated menu for a dinner held in hono...

The Acorn: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to Literature and Art

W. B. Yeats; G. K. Chesterton et al. · 1905 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.68 | $188.31 | ¥29,753)

London, Caradoc Press, 1905-1906. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this uncommon short-lived Modernist magazine on arts and literature, with illustrations throughout, and contributions from writers including W. B. Yeats and G. K. Chesterton. Volumes I and II of th...

The Secret of the Cure D&Apos;Ars

Henri Gheon [Henri-Leon Vangeon]; F. J. Sheed [Trans.]; G. K. Chesterton [Contrib.] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.66 | $201.76 | ¥31,878)

London, Sheed & Ward, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Gheon"s biography of the Cure d"Ars, with a study by G. K. Chesterton and complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered...

Number Three Joy Street: A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls

Walter de la Mare; G. K. Chesterton; A. A. Milne; Laurence Housman; Compton Mackenzie; Hilaire Belloc; Hugh Chesterman; Et al. · 1925 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.60 | $235.39 | ¥37,191)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1925. Cloth. The first American edition of the third Joy Street annual, a richly illustrated children's anthology featuring A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, and many others, in the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper....

Fleet Street: An Anthology of Modern Journalism

W. W. Cobbett [Ed]; Sidney Dark [Ed]; G. K. Chesterton; George Bernard Shaw; J. B. Priestley; et al. · 1932 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. An engaging anthology of interwar British journalism, featuring contributions from G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw and J. B. Priestley, complete with the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. In the pubilsher&ap...

Spectator"S Gallery: Essays, Sketches, Short Stories & Poems

Peter Fleming; Derek Verschoyle [Eds.] G. K. Chesterton; T. S. Eliot; W. B. Yeats; E. M. Forster; Max Beerbohm; et al. · 1933 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.56 | $262.29 | ¥41,441)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of The Spectator's literary contributions, featuring Chesterton, Eliot, Yeats, Greene and Huxley, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original be...

If I Could Preach Just Once

Bertrand Russell; Joseph Collins; John Drinkwater; G. K. Chesterton; Sheila Kaye-Smith; Arthur Conan Doyle; Et al. · 1929 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.38 | $131.82 | ¥20,827)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce anthology asking Bertrand Russell, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle and other eminent figures what they would preach if given only one opportunity. In the publisher's original re...

12 Vols London: History, Life, and Literature, 1879ã‚â–1926

Arthur Griffiths; Joseph Johnson; Jacob Larwood; Charles W. Bardsley; “One of the Old Brigade”; Thomas Burke; May Baldwin; Major-General Sir George Younghusband; Elsie M. Lang; G. K. Chesterton [Introduction] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.11 | $531.30 | ¥83,945)

London; Edinburgh, Chapman and Hall; The Religious Tract Society; Chatto & Windus; Everett & Co. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; Hand and Heart Publishi, 1879-1926. Cloth. London; Edinburgh: Chapman and Hall; The Religious Tract Society; Chatto & Windus; Everett & Co. George Allen ...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; V. S. Vernon Jones [translator]; G. K. Chesterton · 1919 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.82 | $107.61 | ¥17,002)

London, William Heinemann, 1919. Cloth. A scarce neat collection of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham. Scarce work. Fourth impression, 1919. Originally published 1912. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and twelve colour plates with tissue gua...

The Coloured Lands

G. K. Chesterton · 1938 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.78 | $127.78 | ¥20,189)

London, Sheed and Ward, 1938 . Cloth. A fantastically illustrated collection of Chesterton's original stories and illustrations, complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of fairy-stories containing illustrations by the author to accompany his comic verse, sat...

Revaluations: Studies in Biography

Lascelles Abercrombie; Lord David Cecil; G. K. Chesterton; G. D. H. Cole; Stephen Gwynn; James Laver; Et al. · 1931 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.46 | $200.41 | ¥31,665)

Oxford; London, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of biographical reassessments, with essays by G. K. Chesterton, Lord David Cecil, and others, in the original dust wrapper. In the publisher'...

The Scandal of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton · 1935 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.80 | $121.06 | ¥19,127)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of G. K. Chesterton's novel featuring crime-solving parish priest, Father Brown. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the dust wrapper. Written by writer and...

The Secret of the Cure D&Apos;Ars

Henri Gheon [Henri-Leon Vangeon]; F. J. Sheed [Trans.]; G. K. Chesterton [Contrib.] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.83 | $100.88 | ¥15,939)

London, Sheed & Ward, 1929. Cloth. A smart early impression of the first English edition of Gheon's celebrated life of the Curé d'Ars, uncommon in the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards.  Complete...

A Century of Detective Stories

G. K. Chesterton [Intro.]; Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers; Edgar Allan Poe; Wilkie Collins; John Dickson Carr; Anthony Berkeley; E. C. Bentley; Edgar Wallace; et al. · 1935 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.21 | $470.77 | ¥74,382)

London, Hutchinson & Co. [1935]. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this anthology of 45 detective stories by the great names of crime fiction, introduced by G. K. Chesterton, retaining the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original ora...