Narrativa e romanzi

The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.

SIDNEI, SIR PHILIPPE. [SIDNEY]. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1970. Facsimile reproduction of the 1891 photographic facsimile of the original 1590 edition. "Sidney gave epic stature to the conventional pastoral romance, in which the central subject is love, by heightening the style, addingindi...

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...

Our Old Nursery Rhymes.

WILLEBEEK LE MAIR, H. (ILLUSTRATIONS)./ MOFFAT, ALFRED (ORIGINAL TUNES HARMONIZED BY). · 1911 · Chilton Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London: Augener Ltd / Philadelphia: McKay, David, 1911. Landscape format. 23cms x 29cms. Pp.69, 32 full page illustrated plates with music and rhymes to facing pages,some spotting to endpapers. Blue/grey cloth, oval colour onlay illustration to front board, gilt title to front...

The Royal Road.

DEBENHAM, MARY H. · 1909 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: National Society's Depository, 1909. By the author of "Rue" and "The Peace of the Church". Pp.221, four full-page illustrations by Isabel Watkin, spotting to endpapers and preliminaries but mainly affecting closed page edges. Green cloth illustrated in black to front a...

Dublin Translations into Greek and Latin Verse.

TYRRELL, ROBERT YELVERTON. (EDITOR). · 1890 · Chilton Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Dublin: Hodges Figgis and Co, 1890. Translations by Dublin scholars of the literary works of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and many others, into Greek and Latin. Pp.xx/519, toning to pages which are dusty to edges, cracking to internal hinges but holding. Green...

Puffing Billy.

MICHMAN, JUSTIN (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1980 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Bridlington: Peter Haddock Ltd, nd. (c.1980s?). 0710503687. A Big Time Wonder Book "Read-With-Me" series. 21cms x 16cms. Unpaginated. Children's story about Puffing Billy, the Toytown Train, taking the toys on an adventurous ride. Illustrated throughout in colour by Justin Mic...

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...

The Face in the Sky.

INNES, RICHARD. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2009. 9781438937885. "It is autumn of the year 1389, and King Richard is on the throne of England, a land still haunted by the memory of the Black Death. And at Caerafon, on the Welsh borders, vampires break through from another world and steal the ba...

The Accidental Shepherd.

DOBSON, GAVIN R. · 2012 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Librario Publishing Limited, 2012. 9781909238008. "Each of the fifteen stories in The Accidental Shepherd should be read on its own merits as a stand-alone vignette in the life of Geordie Kinloch. Some were inspired by experiences and observations of the author and his friends...

The Price of Redemption.

DOBSON, GAVIN R. · 2011 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Librario Publishing Limited, 2011. 9781906775285. "When the giant American financial group CSF appoints Mark Telford's Appletree Capital Management in London to handle a world-wide fund, the champagne flows in expectation of the fees this will generate..Euphoria is short-lived...

Michael Collins and the Invisible Army.

RYAN, DESMOND. · 1977 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Republic of Ireland: Anvil Books, 1977. 0900068000. Reprint. Originally published in 1932 as 'The Invisible Army'. "With the exception of the Nineteen-Sixteen leaders, Michael Collins and a few others, obvious to all who know the period, 1916-1924, the characters in this book ...

Some 'Opes of Brody Street, E.1.

FARRAN, DORIS. · 2003 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Bexleyheath: S.M.D.Print Centre, 2003. 0953492532. A moving yet humorous story of the Hope family, in the screw and scrape times of Peace, and how it was in War, living alongside the East End Docks in the Blitz. Pp.413, signed by author to title page. Paperback. VG.

An Alien at St Wilfred's.

PLASS, ADRIAN. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London:Fount,1992. 0006276199. "This is the story of Nine, the small alien, who comes to Earth and learns to speak in Prayer Book English.." Pp.212,occasional illustrations by Paul Judson. Pbk, crease to cover. G+.

The Search After Hapiness. (illustrated by Carolyn Dinan).

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Harvill Press, 1969. A Tale by Charlotte Bronte written at the age of 13. "Just what was in the child's mind when she wrote this rather frightening tale? Was it simply an exercise in descriptive writing, or perhaps a simple story written to prove the dictum that happin...

Tatterdemalion.

TURNER, ANITA MARY. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Braintree: Privately published, 1990. Limited edition. Posthumously published children's story about Tattermalion ("Tatters") the scarecrow. Pp.70, occasional illustrations by the author. Green rexine boards, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

Institutions: Or, Advice To His Grandson. In Three Parts. By William Higford, Esq.

HIGFORD, William (1581?–1657) . · 1818 · CHILTON BOOKS

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

[London, Re-printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1818] . 0 Scarce privately printed book in a very good contemporary leather binding. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.0" x 0.5". pp.15/pp.104 . Tan full calf binding. Edges and hinges carefully strengthened. Spine with 5 rais...

Virginia Woolfe. (Critical Issues).

PEACH, LINDEN. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. 0333687310. "Peach argues that Woolfe was a more sophisticated political thinker than has been generally recognised, interested in the complex relationship between history, politics and language. In particular Peach shows how Woolfe's fiction expl...

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...

Dorando, A Spanish Tale.

BOSWELL, JAMES (1740-1795) . · 1930 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Published by Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930 . 0. Scarce limited edition: "Six hundred copies only have been printed of this edition. This is no. 328." A very good book with the original dustwrapper. 7.5" x 5.25" x 0.25". pp.44 . Blue patterned dustwrapper. Cover title: '...