Narrativa e romanzi

Torquato Tasso. A Study of the Poet and his Contribution to English Literature.

BRAND, C.P. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. 1st edition. "Tasso is a complex and difficult writer. He was a weak man, who was easily affected by external pressures, and his greatness lay almost entirely in his writings. Dr Brand suggests how we should reconcile his poetic gen...

Heirs of Fame. Milton and Writers of the English Renaissance.

SWISS, MARGO AND KENT, DAVID A, (EDITORS). · 1995 · Chilton Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1995. 0838752764. 1st edition. "Brings together a dozen essays by recognized scholars of the English Renaissance. Because each essay juxtaposesMilton with another major writer from the period, the volume should contribute to place Milton i...

Sidelights on Charles Lamb.

DOBELL, BERTRAM. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Published by the Author, 1903. 1st edition. Contents: I. Lamb and the "London Magazine"; II. Horace Smith's Imitation of Lamb; III. Some Newly Discovered Contributions by Lamb to the "London Magazine"; IV. Some Poetical Tributes to Lamb from the "London Magazine"; V. S...

Hours With Men and Books.

MATHEWS, WILLIAM. · 1877 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Chicago: S.C.Griggs and Company, 1877. 1st edition. Collection of twenty-one essays on a variety of biographical and literary topics. Pp.384/8(publisher's catalogue), cracking to inner hinges but holding. Green cloth, gilt title to spine and front board, wear to top and tail o...

Ta-Mera. (signed).

PRICE, NANCY. · 1950 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Hutchinson, 1950. 1st edition. "The central figure is the daughter of an Egyptologist and a princess of the ancient Egyptian royal blood. Ta-Mera is young and beautiful and possessed of the power to govern the will of others. After the death of her parents she comes to...

A Whip for the Woman Being (perhaps a little unexpectedly) an Impartial Account of the Present State of the novel Market, and Intended to be a Guide for all LIterary Aspirants. By Ralph Straus.

STRAUS, RALPH (1882-1950) . · 1931 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London: Chapman and Hall Limited, MCMXXXI [1931] . 0. Signed first edition. Original blue cloth with dulled edges. Original printed dust jacket with price "7/6 NET". Some darkening of jacket with chipping along edges, back cover with some staining. Inscription to front endpape...

Selections from Gavin Douglas.

COLDWELL, DAVID F.C. (INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND GLOSSARY). · 1964 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. 1st edition. Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series. "Passages to exemplify the various forms and styles of the poet in his version of the Aeneid and in the Prologues he attached to each book." Pp.xxx/161, occasional light pencil marginal notations....

Letters to Richard Heber, Esq. Containing Critical Remarks on the Series of Novels Beginning with "Waverley" and an Attempt to Ascertain Their Author.

ANONYMOUS (JOHN L. ADOLPHUS) · 1821 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London: printed For Rodwell And Martin, Bond-Street, 1821 . 0. First edition. 8vo. 210mm x 135mm x 20mm. pp. 255/[1p. - Colophon London: Printed By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.] . Contemporary quarter green cloth over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Hinges cracked, bu...

Paul & Virginie.

HEIN, RAYMOND (TRANSLATOR) / BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Mauritius: Editions de l'Ocean Indien, 1985. The first edition of the book, published in 1977, was a notable contribution to Mauritian literature in English, and has been so successful that this new edition has become necessary." Pp.159, portrait frontispiece + 4 further black...

Antigrav.

STRICK, PHILIP. (EDITOR). · 1975 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London: Hutchinson, 1975. 0091224500. 1st edition. Anthology of Science Fiction short stories by Stanislaw Lem, Theodore Sturgeon, James Blish, Brian W.Aldiss, John Sladek, Harry Harrison, Barry N.Malzberg, Ron Goulart, and others. Pp.184. Black cloth, dustwrapper has slight s...

The Fairy Tale. The Magic Mirror of Imagination.

JONES, STEVEN SWANN. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. 0805709509. 1st edition. Twayne's Studies in Literary Themes and Genres series. "From their prehistoric roots in oral narrative to their contemporary manifestations in books, films, music, and other media, fairy tales have unceasingly appeale...

The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765. Edited by her Kinsman Alexander Blacker Kerr.

KNOX, CLEONE. [KING-HALL, MAGDALEN]. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

New York: D.Appleton and Company, 1926. 1st US edition Pp.249, errata slip tipped-in to foreword page, gift message to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers. Green cloth spine with patterned paper-covered boards rather rubbed, oritinal paper label to spine darkened. Good. "...

When I'm a Man or Little Saint Christopher. (Illustrated by W.H.C.Groome).

WEBER, ALICE. · 1888 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1888. 1st edition. 21cms x 17cms. All edges gilt. Pp.189, frontispiece + 12 further full page illustrations by W.H.C.Groome + many other illustrations within the text, brown floral endpapers. Brown illustrated cloth, front board rubbed...

Some New Letters and Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.

HEARN, LAFCADIO./ ICHIKAWA, SANKI (EDITOR). · 1925 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1925. 1st edition. "Lafcadio Hearn, also called (from 1895) Koizumi Yakumo (1850-1904) writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West." (Encyc.Brit). Pp.xviii/430, occasional light spotting. Black cloth, origina...

Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction.

WILLIAMS. IOAN. (EDITOR). · 1968 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. 1st edition. "This collection of Essays and Reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists..The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historic...

An Heir For The Earl.

DRYSDALE, MARGARET. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Robert Hale, 1983. 0709009313. 1st edition. Historical fiction about the Earl of Leicester, his mistress - the widowed Countess of Sheffield, An old live now widowed - Lettice, Countess of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth I. Pp.188, incribed by the author "For Anita and John...

Shakespeare's Bawdy. A Literary & Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossary.

PARTRIDGE, ERIC. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: Routledge, 1947. 1st edition. No 321 of a limited edition of 1000. "An examination of the "Bawdy" in Shakespeare from the literary, psychological and lexicographical standpoints..Comprises chapters on the various aspects of the "Bawdy" - non-sexual, sexual, homosexual,...

Ezra Pound: Purpose / Form / Meaning.

KORN, MARIANNE. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Middlesex Polytechnic Press, 1983. 0862060087. 1st edition. "The aim of this book is to suggest a formal reading of the Pound text. It explains the sense in which writing, prose and poetry, approached a single activity for Pound; in which his theory illuminates his pra...

Blood Hunt.

GUNN, NEIL M. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1952. 1st edition. "Retired from the sea, after his fill of adventures and violence and love, old Sandy lives quietly alone in a remote Highland cottage with a barn, a temperamental cow, a few books and a few hundred pounds in the bank. It is the tra...

Jeshua. (He Who Laughed).

LOWRIE, CHARLES. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1947. 1st edition. The discovery of a papyrus unfolds the story of a Roman General in Palestine in the time of Jeshua. Pp.256. Blue cloth, three spots to front board, dustwrapper rubbed and creased with 1cm hole to centre of spine. Good/Good.