Narrativa e romanzi

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GASKELL, MRS. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: James Nisbet, 1903. 0. All edges gilt. Pp.313/6(ads), frontispiece illustration by H.M.Brock. Dark green cloth, blind-stamped motif to front, gilt "art nouveau" decorated title to spine with "Kiek & Son" to base of spine. VG.

Wolf the Mechanical Dog. (Illustrations by Pat Leyshun).

WELDON, FAY. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: William Collins Sons & Co, 1988. 0001847929. 1st edition. "Fay Weldon's picture of a future world is both frightening and funny. Even though machines are dominant it is still possible for human children to throw a spanner in the works." Unpaginated, distinctive black a...

Inheritance. (A Novel).

SUNDERLAND, CHRISTINE. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Waterford, Virginia: OakTara, 2009. 9781602902190. "Woven through the mists of Lent to new life on Easter Day, 'Inheritance' draws the lives of four characters together to a stunning unforgettable conclusion..A poignant story about choices made along the way.and the miracles o...

Rabble in Arms. A Chronicle of Arundel and the Burgoyne Invasion.

ROBERTS, KENNETH. · 1939 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Collins, 1939. 0. 2nd impression. "A rabble in arms, flushed with success and insolence." (Gen.Burgoyne to Lord Rochfort, describing American troops before Boston). Pp.718, maps to endpapers, slight toning to pages. Green cloth, title to spine dulled. G+.

The Story of Gösta Berling. Translated from the Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach.

LAGERLOF, SELMA. · 1907 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1907. 0. The author's first novel. "The tales are founded on actual occurrences and depict the life in the province of Värmland at the beginning of this century". Pp.viii/473, gift message to front free endpaper. Olive green cloth, gilt title...

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's.

HYNES, SAMUEL. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: The Bodley Head, 1976. 0370103815. "Those who came of literary age during the 1930's - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood, Orwell, Rex Warner, to name only a few - were, whether they knew it or not and whether they knew each other or not, ver...

Lybeaus Desconus.

MILLS, M.(EDITOR). · 1969 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: The Early English Text Society/Oxford University Press, 1969. 0. "In this edition of Lybeaus Desconus the two best copies (those of MSS.Cotton Caligua A.II. and Lambeth Palace 306) have been printed as parallel texts.." Pp.302, frontispieces photo illustrations of Brit...

Jorrocks' Jaunts & Jollities.

SURTEES, ROBERT S. · 0 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Murray's Abbey Classics, nd. 0. "Mr Jorrocks, the hero of this book, is the jovial Victorian, the Cockney merchant who rides to hounds with verve and enthusiasm." Pp.253, colour frontispiece, browning to pages. Red cloth, illustrated dustwrapper by Brabbins(same as fro...

The Holiday Round.

MILNE, A.A. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Methuen, 1912. 0. These sketches previously appeared in Punch magazine. Pp.312/38(book ads), front free endpaper absent, foxing to half-title page with crack to inner hinge but still holding, occasional light spotting. Green cloth, blind-stamped title to front, gilt ti...

Khalida. (Signed)

PERKINS, KEN. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Quartet Books, 1991. 070432783X. 1st edition. The author's first novel. "Aden in the 1960s. A young British soldier, Corporal Kelly has been seduced by an Arab woman in her desperate bid to divert him from an explosives cache. Unknown to Kelly, his daaughter Khalida ha...

The Saint Meets the Tiger.

CHARTERIS, LESLIE. · 0 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London: Brown, Watson Ltd (Digit Books), nd. 0. The author's third book, but the first in "The Saint" series featuring Simon Templar. Pp.160, repaired tear to top of half-title page, pages browning. Paperback, illustration of a ship piled with gold and the familiar cartoon fig...

The Waiting Game.

MATKIN, SIMON. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Lavenham:Privately Published, 2006. 0955419409. Signed copy. "The tale of one Tommy Gainsborough, a posh ex-banker turned Private Hire driver back in his native Suffolk, who struggles to come to terms with all the punters and pisspots of his new trade with the dubious assistan...

Obras Escogidas. Tomo I. Teatro.

VEGACARPIO, LOPE FELIX DE. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

Madrid: Aguilar, S.A.De Ediciones, 1952. 0. Estudio Preliminar, Biografia, Bibliografia, Notas Y Apendices de Federico Carlos Sainz De Robles. Second edition. Pp.1711,all page edges with brown decorative pattern, sepia portrait frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, silk page ma...

Poems Sacred and Profane: A Welsh Novice Monk -D.M.De Silva; Harwig A. Vogelsberger; With Three Essays by William Oxley.

HOGG, DR JAMES.(EDITOR). · 1988 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Salzburg: Institut Fur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, 1988. Poems Sacred and Profane: A Welsh Novice Monk -D.M.De Silva; Harwig A. Vogelsberger; With Three Essays by William Oxley. Salzburg Studies in English Literature Under the Direction of Professor Erwin A.Sturzl. Pp.119, in...

The Black The Grey and The Gold.

FORD, NORMAN R. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Souvenir, 1962. 0. 1st British edition. A novel about a scandal at a military academy. "Here is the fictional behind-the-scenes world of West Point, from the cadets' quarters to the officers' homes." Pp.450, light toning to endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has tonin...

The St Nicholas Anthology. With an introduction by May Lamberton Becker.

COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE. (EDITOR). · 1948 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

New York: Random House,1948. 1st ed. Anthology of children's stories and poems by such authors as: Pyle, Candler Harris, Theodore Roosevelt, Tennyson, Longfellow, Kipling, Harte, Ingalls Wilder, London, Hodgson Burnett, Mapes Dodge. + a selection of stories/poems written by ch...

Lady Temple's Grandchildren.

EVERETT-GREEN, EVELYN. · 1883 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: James Nisbet, 1883. 0. Victorian Fiction. Pp.249/8(ads), black & white frontispiece illustration + 2 further b/w illustrations, small advertisement pamphlet/bookmark for Nisbet publications loosely enclosed, mark to front free endpaper. Blue cloth decorated in black, g...

Saul. (Translated by R.& E.A.Howe).

WENTER, JOSEF. · 1936 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Rich and Cowan, 1936. 0. Ex university library. The biblical story of Saul fictionalised. Pp.331, university label to inside front board, faint inkstamps to closed page edges. Grey cloth, slightly rubbed. G.

The Book Against God.

WOOD, JAMES. · 2003 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. 0224063952. 1st edition. ""James Wood's novel brings a new comic voice to British fiction - edgy, lyrical, intellectual and passionate. 'The Book Against God' explores questions of belief and unbelief, truth and lies, the relation of father and son...

Be Near Me.

O'HAGAN, ANDREW. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Faber & Faber, 2006. 0571216021. 1st edition. "In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals. Over the spring and summer of 2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa: by the y...