Narrativa e romanzi

White Ladies.

BRETT YOUNG, FRANCIS. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

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...

Prancing Nigger.

FIRBANK, RONALD. · 1931 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Duckworth, 1931. Originally published in England under the title "Sorrow in Sunlight", it was published in America under the title "Prancing Nigger" which was subsequently used as the title for this first New Readers Library edition. It is set in a Caribbean republic (...

A ZBC of Ezra Pound.

BROOK-ROSE, CHRISTINE. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

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 | ¥2,110)

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 | ¥4,219)

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 ...

For the Term of his Natural Life. (Australian Classics series).

CLARKE, MARCUS. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Angus & Robertson, 1979. 0207140731. Unabridged edition with introduction by Hilary Lofting and 45 full-page illustrations. "The grim and tragic story of life in an Australian penal colony..Clarke had studied the records of "the System" and nothing he describes was too...

Watership Down.

ADAMS, RICHARD. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London: Allen Lane / Kestrel Books, 1982. 0713915137. First in this edition, published ten years after the original. Pp.478, owner's name to inside front board, a few spots to closed page edges not affecting pages internally. Dark green cloth. Dustwrapper (illustrated by Pauli...

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...

The Stranger's Grave.

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS / BAXTER, EDMUND (EDITOR). · 1988 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Aporia Press, 1988. 0948518014. "The Stranger's Grave was first published as an anonymous pot-boiler in 1823. A wild, strangely humorous and absurd romance, it centres upon an incestuous affair which has disastrous consequences. Peppered with autobiographical details, ...

The Hound of Heaven. A Commemorative Volume.

KRISHNAMURTI, G. (EDITOR). · 1967 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: The Francis Thompson Society, 1967. Limited edition. One of 500 copies printed by Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd, at Hertford in the month of October 1967 for the publishers, The Francis Thompson Society, London. This copy is number 200. 23.5cms x 17cms. Pp.xii/67, owner's ...

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...

Tales From Shakespeare. (Two Volume set).

LAMB, CHARLES AND MARY / AINGER, ALFRED (EDITOR). · 1910 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York: Brentanos, nd (c.1910). Shakespeare's plays re-told as stories for children. Two Volumes with continuous pagination. Pp.xxvi/395, 2 frontispiece portraits + 20 black & white illustrated plates, gift message to front free endpaper of volume one, foxing to tissue guard...

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...

My Favourite Books. (signed).

BLATCHFORD, ROBERT. · 1901 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London: The Clarion Office, 1901. 2nd impression. Contents: Good Books and Bad Books; Of Bed Books; A Seraphic Book; A Book of Gay Wisdom; William Morris, Song-smith; "A Dream of John Ball"; Of Graphic Writing; White's "Selborne"; Sir Thomas Browne; The "Pilgrim's Progress"; O...

On Murder (Considered as one of the fine arts) & On War.

DE QUINCY, THOMAS. [DE QUINCEY, THOMAS]. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: The Doppler Press, 1980. Two Essays. Pp.131, cracking to inner hinges but holding. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spine. G+.** ""On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts" is an essay by Thomas De Quincey first published in 1827 in Blackwood's Magazine. The essa...

A Candle in the Sea. or Winter at Seal's Head.

RAND, REV. EDWARD A. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: James Nisbet & Co Limited, nd. (c.1892). Victorian stories of a lighthouse and sea rescue. Pp.377/2 publisher's listing of The Pilgrim series of books, black & white frontispiece illustration + 2 further illustrations by C.A.Bobbett, toning to pages. Red blind-stamped ...

The Adventures Of Telemachus, The Son Of Ulysses ... : complete in twenty four books. Originally written in French ... / by Francis Salignac de La Mothe Fenelon ... ; now newly translated ... by William Henry Melmoth

FENELON, FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE- 1651-1715. · 1785 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London : Printed only for Alex Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16, Pater-noster Row, [ca. 1785] 0. A very good later half calf binding. 4to. 26.8cm x 21.3cm x 3.6cm. pp.iv/pp.5 - 327/[17pp. - Index and subscribers' list]. Illustrated with 24 engraved plates by W. Grainger, C. Gr...