Narrativa e romanzi

Cover Stories. Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller.

DENNING, MICHAEL. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. 0710096429. "Michael Denning tracks the spy thriller from John Buchan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a story of our times, translating the political and...

The Secret Sharer.

CONRAD, JOSEPH. · 2017 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Raja's, nd. (c.2017). 9781976314230. "The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909 and first published in two parts in Harper's Magazine in 1910. It was later included in the short story collection 'Twixt Land and Sea (...

Omar Khayyam in His Rubaiyat.

HA' NISH, DR OTOMANN ZAR-ADUSHT. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Los Angeles: Mazdaznan Press, 1924. With a true History, Life and Biography of the Persian Poet, Astronomer and Statesman by Dr Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish. 17.5cms x 13cms. Pp.lvi/48, black & white portrait photo frontispiece tipped-in, spotting to endpapers and occasionally th...

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.

Shakespeare Quarterly. No.1. Summer 1948.

FLATTER, DR RICHARD (EDITOR). · 1948 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Austrian State Printing Office, 1948. Founded under the auspices of the Austrian Ministry of Education. "This Quarterly, appearing in English, is intended to be a means of pulling down the walls between Austria and those parts of the world where Shakespeare's language ...

A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance.

RUBINSTEIN, FRANKIE. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. 0333488660. Second edition. "This dictionary examines previously unnoted puns on the erotic attitudes andpractices of the heterosexual and homosexual, the sexual deviant, and the impotent. It includes scatological puns in their usually bawdy conte...

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...

Stan Lee Presents: Doctor Strange. Master of the Mystic Arts No.2.

LEE, STAN AND DITKOI, STEVE. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York: Pocket Books, 1979. 0671825828. First Pocket Books printing July, 1979. This volume contains the complete Dr Strange epic originally presented in Strange Tales #130-144. Pp.160, colour cartoon illustrated story, slight toning to pages. Paperback, vertical creasing to...

The Dance of Death. (Pan G645).

BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Pan Book Limited, 1963. "Disturbing tales of worlds half-glimpsed but never fully seen, by a master of the weird and the malevolent". Pp.126/2(publisher's ads), pages toned. Paperback, creases to rear corners and chipping to top and tail of spine. Good.

Don't Mr Disraeli.

BRAHMS, CARYL AND SIMON, S.J. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949. "This is not a novel set in the Victorian age: it is a novel set in its literature. The characters move against a background of books read by the authors and their adventures are pinned into time by glimpses of the giants of that era." Pp.256, pag...

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.

The Age of Innocence.

WHARTON, EDITH. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: John Lehmann, 1953. Originally published in 1923, this edition first published 1953. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1921, with this book. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. Pp.287. Blue clot...

Monkey. (Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley).

WU CH'ENG-EN. · 1943 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1943. 3rd impression. "Monkey is unique in its combination of beauty with absurdity, of profundity with nonsense.Folk-lore, allegory, religion, history, anti-bureaucratic satire and pure poetry - such are the singularly diverse elements out of...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

STERNE, LAURENCE./ AUSTEN, JOHN (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1928 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1928. First in this edition. Large format. 26cms x 17cms x 4cms. Pp.xxiv/557, frontispiec + 16 further full-page illustrations by John Austen, illustrated endpapers, spotting to closed fore-edge and a few light spots to final pages. Black cl...

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...

Pictures from Dickens with Readings.

NISTER, ERNEST. · 1896 · Chilton Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

London: Ernest Nister, nd. (c.1896). With illustrations by H.M Paget, Fred Barnard, Harold Copping, John H. Bacon, Victor Venner, and G.H. Thompson. 23cms x 19cmsx 1cm. All edges red. Pp.96, colour frontispiece + 11 further chromolithographs and many sepia line-drawing illustr...

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...