Narrativa e romanzi

The Peace of The Augustans. A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literature as a place of Rest and Refreshment. With an introduction by Sir Herbert Grierson.

SAINTSBURY, GEORGE. · 1946 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London:OUP,1946. 1st in this ed. The World's Classics series,No.506. 15.5cms x 9.5cms. pp.20/408,owners name to verso front board. Blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

The Boy King. The Story of an Adventure.

ALINGTON, ADRIAN. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1935. 1st edition. Tales of Action. No.VI. Pp.256, colour frontispiece + 8 black & white plates by H.R.Millar, some minor spotting mainly affecting closed page edges. Purple cloth, rubbed with slight fading to spine. G+.** Adrian Alington (1895-1958) w...

The Happy Families. A Story for Children.

BRADBY, VIOLET. · 1914 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London: Henry Frowde/ Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. 1st edition. Based on the popular card game, with black & white reproductions of the original card designs, and further illustrations by Lilian A. Govey. Pp.107/4(publisher's catalogue), colour frontispiece by Lilian A. Govey, ...

The Concerns of Cecily.

GREY, JANET. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1947. 1st edition. Girls boarding school story. Pp.192, frontispiece + 3 further illustrations by Topham. Cream cloth spine with red paper-covered boards, minor wear to top and tail of spine.VG.

Ciivl War at the Rectory.

COLLISON-MORLEY, KATHLEEN. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Limited, 1980. 0460069802. 1st edition. "A true story of divided loyalties during the Civil War. When the Rector of Penfold rides off to join the King's army, Mary and her two small sisters are left alone in a village full of Roundhead sympathisers. Nea...

Pandora of Parrham Royal. (Illustrated by Joyce Bruce).

NEEDHAM, VIOLET. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Collins, 1951. 1st edition. "When Pandora comes to Parrham Royal she finds many problems and a strange mystery facing her. During the war years she and her mother had lived and worked with a band of guerrillas in Greece. After her mother's tragic death she comes to Eng...

Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes. (Illustrated by Dusan Petricic).

ATWOOD, MARGARET. · 2005 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Bloomsbury, 2005. 0747572925. First British edition. "Rude Ramsay has reached the end of his rope! Sick of dining on rock-hard rice, wrinkled ravioli and raw rhinoceros, Ramsay and Ralph the red-nosed rat resolve to leave their rectangular residence on a quest for a mo...

Hey Nonny Yes. Passions and Conceits from Shakespeare.

FORDHAM, HALLAM.(COMPILER) / ARDIZZONE, EDWARD. (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1947 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: The Saturn Press, 1947. 1st edition. "Limiting his choice to examples of direct speech, the compiler has selected phrases, images and expressions of emotion, whether "charming, rude or delightfully odd", and wittily contrasted them with each other. The 'decorations' by...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

SOLZHENITSYN, ALEXANDER. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. 1st Penguin edition. Solzhenitsyn's spare description of life in a Siberian labour camp under Stalin. Pp.143, pages toned. Paperback, crease to lower front. G.

Lone Wolf. (Signed).

PICOULT, JODI. · 2012 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012. 9781444728989. 1st British edition. "You want to save your father's life. Your brother wants to let him die. What would you do?" Pp.x/369, inscribed by the author to title page "Susie. Enjoy", speckled greying to some page edges (printing faul...

Tales from Herodotus. As Featured in The English Patient.

HERODOTUS / SELINCOURT, AUBREY DE. (TRANSLATOR). · 1997 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Penguin, 1997. 0146003608. 1st in this edition. "Herodotus, who lived in the fifth century BC, is thought to have travelled widely throughout Egypt, Africa, and many Greek city states". 13.5cms x 10.5cms. Pp.114, toning to pages. Paperback, creasing to spine and minor ...

Pennies for the Dog. (Illustrated by Margery Gill).

THWAITE, ANN. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1985. 0233973753. First edition. Large format children's illustrated story. 25.5cms x 22cms. Unpaginated. Full colour illustrations by Margery Gill throughout. Illustrated laminated boards, minor bumps to top and tail of spine. Scarce. VG.

Gremlins In The Cabbage Patch. A Novel. By John Paddy Christmas .

CARSTAIRS, JOHN PADDY · 1944 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, [no date - c. 1944] . 0. Signed first edition, lacking dustwrapper. pp.120. Wrapped in stamp adressed postal envelope to: Mrs. Nina Davidson. Red cloth covers, rather soiled, with black tles to spine. "W. H. Smith & Son's Library" label to verso o...

Castle of Eagles.

HEAVEN, CONSTANCE. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Heinemann, 1974. 0434326224. 1st edition. A romantic novel set in nineteenth century Austria. Pp.193. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

A Man Named Seraphin.

RAY, RENE. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952. 1st edition. By the author of Emma Conquest. "Ben Seraphin was hard man, a man who liked to impose his will upon others. He prevented his sister Amy from marrying in her youtjh, but turned her out of his house years later when he himself marr...

Love is Eternal. A Novel of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln.

STONE, IRVING. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Collins, 1955. 1st edition. Biographical novel telling the story of the marriage of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. Pp.575, owner's name to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers and spotting to closed page edges. Green cloth, dustwrapper has minor spotting and chippe...

Marjorie Morningstar.

WOUK, HERMAN. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 1st edition. "Marjorie (nee Morgenstern) is Everygirl. Domiciled in New York, she has her counterpart in every city - the girl who cherishes a secret dream. In Marjorie's case the dream matured into an ambition: she belieed that it was her destiny ...

The Big Chapel.

KILROY, THOMAS. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1971. 1st edition. The Big Chapel was shortlisted for the 1971 Booker Prize and winner of 1971 the Guardian Fiction Prize. It is a novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland. An an...

An Innocent Millionaire. (signed).

VIZINCZEY, STEPHEN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983 0771087608. First Canadian edition. "Anyone can enjoy An Innocent Millionaire as an exotic-location thriller. The bonus is that it is also a fable of love, greed and modern society, peopled by rounded, cussed characters.."(ShaunUsher, D.Ma...

The Children of the Rocks. A Story of Tours. (Signed).

MADDEN, JOHN J. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Kansas City: Burton Publishing Company, 1944). 1st edition. "The Children of the Rocks is more of a study than a story. It deals with a dangerous period in history. Aperiod when civilization rested upon the issue of a single battle in the last days of September, A.D.732. In th...