Narrativa e romanzi

Slaughter in the Sun. (A Sexton Blake Novel).

CHRISTIE, STEPHEN. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,905)

London: Howard Baker, 1969. 1st edition. "Murder came violently to exotic, tropic Ceylon when beautiful Angela Floyd was battered to death on a beach. It looked like the work of a maniac. But there was method in the murderer's madness Sexton Blake swiftly discovered - though n...

The Lady Investigates. Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction.

CRAIG, PATRICIA & CADOGAN, MARY. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1981. 0575028858. 1st edition. "An absorbing look at the changing status of women in the detective story and the spy thriller..As they say, the idea of a woman detective is 'bound to appear progressive', even if she's only an elderly busybody and p...

Some Early Impressions.

STEPHEN, LESLIE. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London: Hogarth Press, 1924. 1st edition. The following reminiscences were written in 1903 and were published in the National Review at the end of that year. Pp.194/4(publisher's catalogue), page from The Literary Guide and Nationalist Review (September 1, 1908)"Some Unpublish...

A Miracle of Love. (signed).

CORKERY, SIMON. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Leap, Co.Cork: The Macabea Press, 1997. 0953064204. 1st edition. "Christina is a child miraculously saved after abortion by the merciful intervention of a trainee nurse. Adopted by loving parents, Christina lives life to the full unaware of the drama unfolding itself regarding...

The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773.

REDDICK, ALLEN. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 0521361605. 1st edition. "Reddick details the conception, composition, and writing of the Dictionary between the years 1746 and 1755, as well as the great revision of 1771-73. In the process, Reddick argues that the Dictionary does ...

The Historical Method of Herodotus.

LATEINER, DONALD. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. 0802057934. 1st edition. "An innovative writer in an innovative century, Herodotus made sense of a congeries of myth, poetry, monuments, and oral narratives suffused with parochial and ethnic prejudices. Now for the first time these ...

The Problem of Order. Elizabethan Political Commonplaces and an Example of Shakespeare's Art.

TALBERT, ERNEST WILLIAM. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Durham N.C: Chapel Hill / The University of North Carolina Press, 1962. 1st edition. "Somewhat less familiar to students of Elizabethan drama and particularly Shakespeare's history plays are certain sixteenth-century commonplaces concerning the nature of states, including Engl...

Alexander Tomlyn. A Tale of Old Cambridge.

WILBY, NOEL MACDONALD. · 1933 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, 1933. 1st edition. Historical fiction. "The history of Alexander Tomlyn, a ward of Sir Thomas More, is traced in vivid colours from his schooldays to the time of his ordination to the Priesthood." Pp.x/278, toning to endpapers, minor spott...

The Captive Free Men: The Plowman's Tale.

PRENTICE, ROB. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Oswestry: Sherbourne Publications, 1994. 1872547869. 1st edition. "The Captive Free Men is the story of a fictional family. The place in which it is set is one that the author has lived and worked in for the last 35 years. The History and Geography is authentic but has been ad...

Lettres D'Angleterre, Etudes Humoristiques. Par Jules-marie Loewe. Dessins de Bourgerie

LOEWE, JULES MARIE. · 1851 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Paris: Georges Kugelmann, Editeur, Rue Feydeau, 7, 1851 . 0. First edition in modern cloth binding, preserving the original covers. 8vo. 24.5cm x 15.9cm x 1.7cm. pp.175/[1p. - Table Des Maitieres]/[4pp. - Original covers]. Green cloth binding with black leather title label to ...

The Dragon and the Magic Key.

WILLEY, BEE. (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1995 · Chilton Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,214)

London: Electric Paper, 1995. 1897584032. 1st edition. "Beautifully illustrated and packed with pop-ups, flaps and tabs, this delightful story combines the best traditions of a classic fairy tale with all the fun of an interactive book". 28.5cms x 22cms. Unpaginated. Illustrat...

Blake's Innocence and Experience.

WICKSTEED, JOSEPH H. · 1928 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London; J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1928. 1st edition. A Study of the Songs and Manuscripts "Shewing the Two Constant States of the Human Soul". Pp.299, 4 colour plates + 55 black & white plates + 3 pages from the MS. "An Island in the Moon" and 17 pages from Blake's MS. Sketch Book ...

Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories. (Illustrated by Àsgeir Scott).

RUSSELL, BERTRAND. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: The Bodley Head, 1953. 1st edition. Bertrand Russell's first work of fiction, written at the age of eighty. Contents: Satan in the Suburbs or Horrors Manufactured Here; The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X; The Infra-redioscope; The Guardians of Parnassus; Benefit of Clergy. ...

A Guide For The Bedevilled By Ben Hecht.

HECHT, BEN (1893-1964) . · 1944 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944 . 0. First edition. pp.6/pp.276 . Original gree cloth covered boards, with dulled and rubbed gilt titles to front board and spine. Small bookseller's label to verso of the front board: "Perkin & Co. Calle Cangallo 542 Buenos Aires". Also...

Malory. The Critical Heritage.

PARINS, MARYLYN JACKSON. (EDITOR). · 1988 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

London: Routledge, 1988. 0415002230. 1st edition. The Critical Heritage Series. "Provides a chronological record of various evaluations of the Morte d'Arthur ranging from Caxton's Preface of1485 to George Saintsbury in 1912." Pp.xiv/409. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has a removable...

Apul-One

KENNEDY, P. D. [ KENNEDY, PETE 1950-- . · 1975 · Chilton Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

London: Peter D. Kennedy, 1975 . 0950426709. First edition. pp.112. A very good binding and dustwraper. White illustrated dustwrapper, lightly toned and edges rubbed. Illustrated yellow card covers with caption to front board: "Standin on the Bannista Contemplatin the Ways of ...

White Ladies.

BRETT YOUNG, FRANCIS. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. 1st edition. English novel about three generations of a midlands industrial family and their country house, the White Ladies. Pp.693, signed by Francis Brett Young to title page, owner's details to inside front board, occasional light spott...

A ZBC of Ezra Pound.

BROOK-ROSE, CHRISTINE. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 0571091350. 1st edition. Pp.x/297, spotting to top closed page edges not encroaching onto page margins. Yellow cloth,silver title to spine, edges slightly rubbed. Scarce. G+.

Miss Bendix. (Illustrated by H.Weissenborn).

ROYDE SMITH, NAOMI. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: Hollis and Carter, 1947. 1st in this partly re-written edition. "The tale of a serious-minded gentlewoman's struggle to reconcile her newly acquired knowledge of scientific truth with the religious teaching which she had found adequate until the death of her mother.." ...

My Name is Legion. (Signed).

WILSON, A.N. · 2004 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Hutchinson, 2004. 0091795354. 1st edition. "A savge satire on the morality of contemporary Britain - its Press, its politics, its Church, its rich, its underclass. His London is a bleak, if occasionally hilarious, place: murderous, randy, money-obsessed and haunted by ...