Narrativa e romanzi

The Gathering of Brother Hilarius.

FAIRLESS, MICHAEL (PSEUD. OF MARGARET FAIRLESS). · 1901 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: John Murray, 1901. 0. First Edition. A good tight binding: Lilac cloth, stamped in green, red and gilt, with yapp fore-edges, t.e.g. Boards rubbed and sunned. Neat ink insrciption to front free-endpaper, otherwise quite a nice copy of her first novel.

The Son of the Sun.

CALDECOTT, MOYRA. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Allison & Busby, 1986. 0850316472. 1st ed. "This is a historical novel with a difference. Haunting and full of surprises, it is set in ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty..events are seen from the point of view of.Smenkhkare - that mysterious and el...

Dr Gruber's Daughter.

ELLIOTT, JANICE. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. 0340397624. 1st ed. "There is such a thing as evil and it has a daughter, as Janice Elliott - displaying the versatility of her writing - reveals in her wittiest and most ingeniously original novel to date." Pp.159, very minor spotting to clos...

Fire Falcon.

HART-DAVIS, DUFF. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. 0224020803. 1st ed. "Duff Hart-Davis builds his story to a crescendo of suspense and excitement among the great peaks of Knoydart, on the West Coast..The claustrophobia which threatens to destroy a man on the run is brilliantly contrasted with the ...

A Requiem of Sharks. (A Novel of Suspense).

BUCHANAN, PATRICK. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. 1st ed. "For Ben and Charity it was their most exciting case, a case which involved money, beautiful women, and human killers as savage as the requiem shark and much more dangerously cunning." Pp.212. Red cloth, d/w design by Roger King. VG/VG.

The Ginger Jar.

ROBINSON, JEFFREY. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1987. 0450406571. 1st ed. "Who needs the kind of nuclear material which could, correctly processed, make a nuclear bomb?.Richard Holbrook stumbles on the link between his now obsessive search, and the valuable item of antique porcelain purchased...

The Lee Shore.

STYLES, SHOWELL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: William Kimber, 1986. 0718306074. 1st ed. "Ring was a good seaman, and an unusual one in the year of 1810 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars since his mother was French. The knowledge of this language was to lead him into an alien world, a world of espionage and adve...

Tales of Sea and Shore.

HESLEWOOD, JULIET. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. 0192781057. 1st ed. "Here are twenty stories from several lands about the sea and the creatures who live in it, the people who live on its shores and those who earn a living by sailing on it." Pp.151, colour and b/w full page illustration...

Falling Apart.

SALAMAN, NICHOLAS. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Alison Press/ Secker & Warburg, 1986. 0436440873. 1st ed. "Charlet seemed to have everything going for her..Her troubles, when they started, seemed small and unimportant, though rather eerie.." Pp.190, slight toning to pages. Black cloth, d/w photograph by Luc Carson a...

The President's Brother.

MEFFORD, W.H. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Australia: Macdonald Futura, 1985. 0867710071. 1st ed. ""Eddie Lee Webster is a loud-mouthed drunkard, a bully and a boor. Worse, he is the brother of the President of the United States. That he is an embarrassment to the Administration is no secret. But as the cheif suspect i...

Tefuga.

DICKINSON, PETER. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: The Bodley Head,1986. 0370308913. 1st ed. "This is a book of vividly created worlds - Nigeria under colonial rule with all its weird anomalies, Nigeria again today teetering through corruption to a military coup, but above all the inner world of Betty Jackland, whose e...

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern.

BRAUN, LILIAN JACKSON. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London: Collins For The Crime Club, 1967. 1st ed. Second novel in the acclaimed 'Cat' series. "Newspaper reporter Qwilleran and Siamese cat Koko are again at work together on matters of robbery and murder - this time the sophisticated world of interior decoration." Pp.192, own...

Zorn.

JONES, JONAH. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Heinemann, 1986. 1st ed. "With its haunting characters and narrative power, Zorn is a remarkably rich and well-crafted novel - a mystery, an adventure, an almost mythic story of suffering and endurance. From the quiet of a peninsula woodland in Britain to the horrors o...

Mists and Magic. (Illustrated by Jill Bennett).

EDWARDS, DOROTHY.(EDITOR). · 1983 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 0718825373. 1st ed. "In new stories written by favourite authors especially for this book, in folk tales and legends and poems, Dorothy Edwards brings together spells and charms, witches and mermaids, the creatures of the other world and the...

High Jinx.

BUCKLEY, WILLIAM F. JR. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Century, 1986. 0712614435. 1st ed. Seventh spy novel featuring Blackford Oates. Pp.216. Red cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

Looking for the Last Big Tree.

FOSS, MICHAEL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Michael O'Mara, 1986. 0948397152. 1st ed. "Looking For The Next Big Tree is a novel about man's search for new frontiers, about regaining a lost paradise. The setting is the north-west coast of Canada, the time-scale two centuries, the protagonists the local Indians, S...

A State of Corruption.

GEDDES, PAUL. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: The Bodley Head, 1985. 0370308549. 1st ed. Hardback. "Antonia Strachan was not the Director of the Central Crimes Bureau's firts choice for the delicate inquiry which had landed on his desk. But Antrim could not wait: the Prime Minister had been warned that a major fin...

A Choice of Nightmares.

DORNER, MARJORIE. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Michael Joseph, 1987. 0718127986. 1st ed. Hardback. "Finely written, taut and atmospheric, 'A Choice of Nightmares' is a gripping psychological thriller which marks the debut of a writer of extraordinary power." Pp.266, slight toning to pages. Blue cloth, d/w illustrat...

The Prose For God: Religious and anti-religious aspects of imaginative literature.

GREGOR, IAN AND STEIN, WALTER.(EDITORS). · 1973 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Sheed and Ward, 1973. 1st ed. Ex-Priory library. "Today we no longer look, as men perhaps still did a century ago, only to theologians for help in forming our moral judgements. It is as much, or more, to the creative artist, the novelist or the poet, that we turn." The...

Pollack & Carnival: Cornish Short Stories.

WALKHAM, WALTER. (PSEUD). · 1980 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Padstow: Tabb House, 1980. 0907018033. 1st ed. ".a collection of stories of youth in Cornwall during the nineteen-twenties and 'thirties'." Pp.61, occassional b/w illustrations by William Hugo White. Pbk, slightly rubbed. G+.