Narrativa e romanzi

The Story of an African Farm. A Novel.

IRON, RALPH. [PSEUD. OLIVE SCHREINER]. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. New Edition. Pp.296/8(ads for other publications), small bookseller's label(Widdison, Sheffield) to inside rear cover, owner's name to front free endpaper. Dark green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slightly rubbed. G+.** "Olive Schreiner ...

Jealous Woman. [and Sinful Woman].

CAIN, JAMES M. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955. 1st British edition which includes the first British hardcover printing of Sinful Woman. Two novels of violent action and emotion. Pp224, minor spotting to closed page edges, owner's name to inside front board. Black cloth, illustrated dustwr...

Some Newly Discovered Stanzas Written by John Milton on Engraved Scenes Illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses.

MILTON, JOHN / CANDY, HUGH C.H.(REVISOR). · 1924 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd, 1924. 1st edition. This Milton-Ovid Script was written, circa 1623; discovered, 1921; first printed, in Notes and Queries, 1922-3; and is now revised and reprinted, in one volume, with many additional notes by Hugh C.H.Candy. Pp.192, black & white por...

Stones from a Glass House.

FINDLATER, JANE HELEN. · 1904 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: James Nisbet & Co.Limited, 1904. Contents: I. Great War Novels; II.On Religious Novels; III. The Slum Movement in Fiction; IV. The Scot of Fiction; V. O Tempora! O Mores!; VI. The Artof Narration; VII.George Borrow; VIII."As Compared with Excellence"; IX. Modern Traged...

The Solitude of Thomas Cave.

HARDING, GEORGINA. · 2007 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Signed Uncorrected Proof copy. "Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the nature of mankind and our impact on the environment. Thomas Cave is a whaler on Arctic expeditions collect...

Tunc.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. 1st edition. By the author of The Alexandria Quartet. Pp.316, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed. G+/G+.

Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

BELLAMY, LIZ. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Cambridge:University Press, 1998. 0521622247. 1st edition. "British culture underwent radical change in the eighteenth century with the emergence of new literary genres and discourses of social analysis. As novelists developed the fictional form, writers of economic tracts and...

The Bear Book.

PFLOOG, JAN. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

New York: Golden Press,1965. Children's illustrated book about bears in the shape of a bear's head. Unpaginated but with 24 colour illustrated pages showing Black, Grizzly, Brown and Polar bears, pages toned. Stiff card covers with bear's face to front and back covers, title i...

Thumbs Up.

AVERY, HAROLD. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Nisbet & Co Ltd, 1925. 1st edition. "An elderly gentleman of unimpeachable respectability, is suddenly seized with the conviction that, for their moral and intellectual well-being, his neighbours need "livening up." The complications in which his crusade invloves not o...

Grey Rabbit's May Day. (Pictures by Margaret Tempest).

UTTLEY, ALISON. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Collins,1963. 1st edition. "As May Day drew near there were great preparations in Grey Rabbit's house. Hare had seen in the village the lovely Maypole with its dangling ribbons all ready for the children to dance round. Couldn't they have a Maypole too? But Grey Rabbit...

Lent Legends. Stories for Children from Church History.

NEALE, J.M. · 1884 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London; J.Masters & Co, 1884. 3rd edition. Contents: I. The Siege of Omura; II. The Wolf of the Spessart Wald; III. The Martyrs of Gorcum; IV. The Oak of Luxford's Lane; V. The Boulder of Val' de Passos; VI. The Caldron of Carcassone; VII. The Sacrifice of Onnontague; VIII. Th...

Winsome Wins Through.

HARRIS, BETH COOMBE. · 1937 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Kilmarnock:John Ritchie Ltd, nd. (c.1937). Pp.258, colour frontispieceof a young man in shirt and smart trousers & shoes climbing round a cliff face to rescue a small dog + 3 black & white plates, prize bookplate ("Bethedsda" Sunday School Ipswich 1st prize award for obtaining...

Men of Destiny. or The Moment of No Return.

KING-HALL, STEPHEN. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: K-H Services Ltd, 1960. 1st edition. "A sudden crisis over West Berlin triggered off by the East German Communists. With Russian foreknowledge and support? The West took this for granted; they were wrong..We observe the frantic efforts of the men of "the Establishments...

Dialogue in Novels & Plays.

MORGAN, CHARLES. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ashford: The Hand and Flower Press, 1953. Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture I. Pp.vi/21, date notation to front free endpaper. Orange cloth. VG.

Altered States.

BROOKNER, ANITA. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. 0224042823. 1st edition. "Altered States is a forceful exploration of the conflicting needs of men and women, and the lack of understanding which divides them. Powerfully written and rich in perception, Anita Brookner's portrait of moral vulnerabil...

Winter's Tales 20.

MACLEAN, A.D. (EDITOR). · 1974 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Macmillan, 1974. Collection of 10 Short Stories. A Taste of Nutmeg by Sally Griffiths; Kielty's by Susan Hill; The Snare by Roy Holland; Class of 1948; The Process of Living by Shiva Naipaul; How to Write a Short Story by Sean O'Faolain; Grass Roots by Anne Piper; The ...

Ruggles of Red Gap. (Illustrated by F.R.Gruger).

WILSON, HARRY LEON. · 1915 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. 1st edition. The story of a newly rich American couple from the West who win a British gentleman's gentleman in a poker game. Pp.371, black & white frontispiece + 7 further illustrations by F.R.Gruger, faint ownership details to front...

Shivers for Christmas.

DALBY, RICHARD. (EDITOR). · 1995 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 1995. 1854799193. 1st edition. Sixteen ghoulish stories. "Ghosts, wolves, journeys into other dimensions, exorcism and rats are all set to transport your from the comfort of a warm hearth to a place where your bones will be chilled." Includes:...

The Come-Uppance of Arthur Hearne.

HALL, ANGUS. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London: Hammond, Hammond, 1967. 1st edition. "It was a long way - socially, at least - from the gypsy encampment to the residence of the Mayor of Eastsea: and Artaros Rossar-Mescro had made the journey the hard way. First he had abandoned his gypsy heritage to become Arhtur He...

Nic Revel. A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land. (With six illustrations by W.H.C.Groome).

MANVILLE FENN, G. · 1898 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: W & R Chambers Limited, 1898. 1st edition. Pp.306/32(ads for other publications), black & white frontispiece + 5 further black & white plates by W.H.C.Groome, illustrated headpieces to chapters, owner's inkstamp to half-title page, a few light spots. Blue decorated clo...