Narrativa e romanzi

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...

Dimitri and the False Tsars. (Translated by Anthea Bell).

BAUMANN, HANS. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972. 0340159243. 1st British edition. Originally published in Germany under the title "Dimitri und die Falschen Zaren". "A true historical mystery, was Dimitri, who succeeded Boris Godunov as Tsar of Russia in 1605, really the son of Ivan the Te...

The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. (Illustrated by C.E.Brock).

FARNOL, JEFFERY. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, nd. (c.1912). Attractive decorated binding. Regency romance about Barnabas Barty, the son of John Barty, the former boxing champion of England and landlord of a pub in Kent. At the start of the tale, Barnabas comes fortuitously into the p...

No Laughing Matter

SIMPSON, DOROTHY. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London: Michael Joseph, 1993. 0718137086. 1st edition. Dorothy Simpson's twelfth criime novel. "When Inspector Thanet of Kent CID is called to the laboratory at a local Kentish vineyard he finds a horrifying scene. Broken glass everywhere, in chunks, shards and splinters. And ...

The Death Ceremony.

MELVILLE, JAMES. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Secker & Warburg, 1985. 0436276968. 1st edition. Crime thriller featuring Japanese Superintendent Otani. "A first-rate crime story and an exploration of Japanese society conducted with wit, sympathy, and formidable expertise." Pp.181. Black cloth, dustwrapper illustrat...

The Day Of Recompense By Silas K. Hocking With Original Illustrations By A. Twidle .

HOCKING, SILAS K. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Frederick Warne And Co. 1899 . 0. Signed First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 8.0" x 5.5" x 1.25". pp.2/pp.357/[4pp. - Adverts]. Bright red cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to both the front board and spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine dulle...

Puritan and Anglican. Studies in Literature.

DOWDEN, EDWARD. · 1900 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.Ltd, 1900. 1st edition. Contents includes: I.Puritanism and English Literature; II.Sir Thomas Browne; III.Richard Hooker; IV.Anglo-Catholic Poets: Herbert, Vaughan; V.Milton: Civil Liberty; VI.Milton II - Ecclesiastical and Theological ...

The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age.

DICKSON CARR, JOHN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1983. 0385187149. 1st edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas G. Greene. "Nine never-before-published radio plays by the late John Dickson Carr..Here, all the hallmarks of Carr's classic detective novel...

Monsignor Quixote.

GREENE, GRAHAM. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: The Bodley Head, 1982. 0370309235. 1st edition. The book is a pastiche of the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes with many moments of comedy, but also offers reflection on matters such as life after a dictatorship, Communism, and the Catholic fait...

Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa 1747-65. Volume 3 Only.

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. 1851964614. A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflections, Contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison, 1755. Introduction by John A.Dussinger. Afterword by Ann Jessie Van...

Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa 1747-65. Volume 1. Only. Prefaces, Postscripts and Related Writings.

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL / KEYMER, THOMAS. (EDITOR). · 1998 · Chilton Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. 1851964614. Introduction by Jocelyn Harris. Texts edited with headnotes by Thomas Keymer. Contents includes: 1. Preliminary matter to Volumes I and II of the First Edition (December 1747); 2.William Warburton's Preface to Volumes III and IV of...

Alfred and the Pirates. (Illustrated by Emily Donegan).

FINKEL, IRVING. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Parrot Books, 2006. 1904982107. 1st edition. "Alfred Appletree is fourteen years old. While writing a history project for school about what seagoing pirates were really like he begins to experience overpowering dreams about the horrors of life on a pirate ship. Before ...

Mr Mulliner Speaking.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. · 1930 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, nd.(c.1930). Second printing. A collection of nine short stories narrated by the inexorable Mr Mulliner about members of his prodigious family, including one who is also a member of the Drones Club. The last three of the stories are about Bobbi...

The Ten Pleasures Of Marriage And The Second Part, The Confession Of The New Married Couple, Attributed To Aphra Behn; Reprinted With An Introduction By John Harvey; And The Original Twenty Plates And Two Engraved Titles Re-engraved.

BEHN, APHRA 1640-1689 / HARVEY, JOHN (PSEUD.) / MARSH, A. (PSEUD. - TYPOGRAPHER?) . · 1922 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London: Privately Printed For The Navarre Society Limited, MCMXXII. [1922] . 0. Very Good. A study of married life from the seventeenth century, commonly attributed to female author Aphra Behn. Reprinted from the original with an introduction by John Harvey. With the original ...

The Head of Kay's.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. · 1922 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: A & C Black Ltd, 1922. Third edition. "Set at the fictional public school of Eckleton, the story centres upon the "House of Kay's", the riotous boys therein, its tactless, unpopular master Mr Kay, and Kennedy, the head boy. The story features practical jokes, fighting ...

The Coming of Bill.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. · 1920 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1920. 1st British edition. (First published in the US as Their Mutual Child in 1919 by Boni & Liveright, New York). "The novel tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his wife Ruth, and their young son, Bill. Bill's upbringing is interfered with by R...

Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose.

WIDDOWSON, PETER.(EDITOR). · 1997 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1997. 0333665341. "Peter Widdowson's critical work has already helped to redirect the study of Hardy's fiction; now he undertakes a similar project for the poetry. His new selection of Thomas Hardy's poems and non-fictional prose is a radical ...

The Survivor. (Translated from the French by John Russell).

SUPERVIELLE, JULES. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Martin Secker and Warburg Limited, 1951. The second of Jules Supervielle's novels to be translated into English. At the close of 'The Colonel's Children' "it seemed that Colonel Bigua's end had come. But unknown to him his jump over-board had been observed by one of th...

Bibi The Baker's Horse. (Illustrated by Artur Horowicz).

STEWART, ANNA BIRD. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Hutchinson, nd. (c.1957). "What a hustle and a bustle there is in Avignon on the day of the Great Horse Fair..Bibi's story began there one St Andrew's Day when his tinker master sold him to a baker, and Bibi the little brown Corsican horse became Bibi - the baker's hor...

Aesop's Fables. (Illustrated by S.R.Praeger). [Told To The Children series].

DALKEITH, LENA. · 1930 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, nd. (c.1930). 15cms x 12cms. Pp.xii/47, colour frontispiece + further charming colour plates throughout by S.R.Praeger, owner's name to front free endpaper, scuffing to some plates where the pages have been stuck together at some time with edge ...