Narrativa e romanzi

Charles Fort: A Radical Corpuscle. By Sam Moskowitz .

MOSKOWITZ, SAM (1920 - 1997 ) . · 1976 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Newark, N.J. : Sam Moskowitz, 1976. 0. Limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the author. This is a mimeographed and stapled magazine (last leaf loose). 11.0" x 8.5". pp.20. Illustrated white paper front cover with a design by "Gropper" (soiled and creased). No rear cover. A...

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...

Albions England. (1612).

WARNER, WILLIAM. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Hildesheim: George Olms Verlag, 1971. Facsimile reprint in the Anglistica & Americana series. Albions England is a long poem in fourteen-syllabled verse, Pp.399, Red cloth, gilt title to front, black label with gilt title to spine. VG.** "William Warner was born in London abou...

A History of English Literature. From Earliest times to 1916.

COMPTON-RICKETT, ARTHUR. · 1958 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons,1958. "An attempt to estimate in human values the development of literary life and thought from Saxon times down to the end of 1916. A chronicle of the literature of each age is preceeded by a pen-picture of its social and political environment.....

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. "...

T.E. Hulme. ( with an introduction by Anthony Quinton).

ROBERTS, MICHAEL. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982. "Opens with a biographical sketch and proceeds to a discussion of Hulme's views on humanism, classicism, democracy and poetry, taking account of the thinkers whose work and example helped give shape to Hulme's approach - notably Bergson." ...

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...

The Physiology of Marriage or Meditations of an Eclectic Philosopher on Happiness and Unhappiness in Marriage

BALZAC, HONORE DE (1799-1850) / MACNAMARA, FRANCIS · 1925 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: The Casanova Society, MCMXXV. [1925] . 0. A very good limited edition (No. 241). 4to. 10.52 x 8.0" x 1.25". [16pp.]/pp.45/[2pp.]/pp.310/[1p.] . Blue-grey papered boards, corners rubbed. Brown cloth spine with blue-grey paper label. Deckled (Rough-cut) page edges. Clean...

The Study of Literature and Religion. An Introduction.

JASPER, DAVID. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. 0333570790. Second edition. "A learned , dense and often allusive book which tries to move the current discussion about the relation between religion and literature on to a new level of seriousness">(John Barton, Theological Book Review). Pp.xx/15...

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,...

Postman's Horn.

BRYANT, ARTHUR. · 1946 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

London: Home & Van Thal, 1946. An Anthology of the Letters of Latter Seventeenth Century England. Revised edition. Letters written in the 17th century together with interspersed comments by Arthur Bryant. Pp.319. Red cloth, sunning to edges, dustwrapper rubbed and soiled to re...

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...

Niccolina Niccolini.

[ROBERTS, MARGARET]. · 1897 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Gardner, Darton & Co, nd. (c.1897). By the author of 'Mademoiselle Mori', 'Atelier Du Lys', 'The Secret of Madame De Monlac', etc. Ex convent library. Pp.10, minor spotting mainly affecting preliminary pages and closed page edges,endpapers browned, armorial bookplate o...

Whisky Galore.

MACKENZIE, COMPTON. · 1950 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1950. 6th impression. During the Second World War, the cargo vessel S.S. Cabinet Minister is wrecked off a remote fictional Scottish island group — Great Todday and Little Todday — with fifty thousand cases of whisky aboard. Due to wartime rationing,...

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.

Sandra Takes Command.

WHITE, CONSTANCE M. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Hutchinson, 1960. "Sandra didn't just want to be any kind of actress; she didn't see herself as a film star r anything like that. No, acting for Sandra was a serious, dedicated business - the most important thing in her school life. That's why she tried to form a Drama...