Narrativa e romanzi

My Lady's Bargain.

HOPE, ELIZABETH. · 1922 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London: Nisbet & Co.Ltd, 1922. 0. 1st edition. Historical novel. "How Peter Williams, one of Cromwell's self-made generals, took great risks to win the affections of his high-born lady love..a vivid picture of the Commonwealth." Pp.302, darkened strip to endpapers. Grey cloth,...

Abra of Poictiers: A Story of the Days of S.Hilary.

AMES, M.E. · 1900 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1900. 0. 1st edition. Historical fiction account of the life of the fourth century bishop and Early Church Father, St.Hilary. Pp.x/189, endpapers browned. Green cloth, publishers 'file copy' label to front, spine slightly rubbed. VG.

The Merchant of Venice and Other Stories. (Illustrated by Frances Brundage and M.Bowley).

NESBIT, E. AND CHESSON, HUGH. · 1914 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, nd.(c.1914). 0. The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and The Comedy of Errors. Adaptation of the Shakespeare plays into story-form for children. Pp.64, colour frontispiece + numerous black and white illustrations by Frances Brundage and M.B...

Rabbit Redux.

UPDIKE, JOHN. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Andre Deutsch, 1972. 0233957049. 1st ed. "In this sequel to 'Rabbit, Run' John Updike brings back Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom. Ten years have passed since Rabbit failed in his bolt for freedom. The athletic escapist has become a paunchy conservative; and the becalmed Ameri...

Last Voyage From Ipswich.

FOSTER, PETER. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Ipswich: Peter Foster(Privately printed), 1995. 0952762501. 'Special Limited Edition'. "Another small British Merchant ship has been sold off to a new owner in Jamaica who has hired a crew of six unemployed British seamen to take her across the Atlantic..Once at sea, they disc...

The House of Broken Dreams.

JOPE-SLADE, CHRISTINE. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Nisbet & Co.Ltd, 1924. 0. 1st edition. Pp.320, top edge dusty but pages very clean. Blue cloth, yellow titles to front and spine. VG.

Mrs Bindle: Some Incidents From The Domestic Life of the Bindles.

JENKINS, HERBERT. · 1922 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Herbert Jenkins, nd.(c.1922). 0. Seventh Printing Completing 84,643 Copies. Humorous fiction in the 'Bindle' series about the life of cockney Joseph Bindle, here featuring his indomitable wife. Pp.312/8(ads), owners details to front free endpaper, toned strip to endpap...

The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Times..

DODD, REV. HENRY PHILIP. · 1876 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: George Bell and Sons, 1876. 0. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Pp.16(ads to front)/40/695/31(ads),cracking to inner hinges. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

Walt Whitman: The Prophet of the New Era.

HAYES, WILL. · 1921 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

London: C.W.Daniel Ltd, nd.(c.1921). An extended comparison between Whitman and Christ in which the object was to make Whitman out as a religious prophet. Pp.194/1(ad), rough-cut page edges, toning to rear endpapers. Black paper boards withoriginal paper labels to front and sp...

The Go-Ahead Gang. (Illustrated by Maureen Bradley).

SWINDELLS, ROBERT. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: Puffin/Penguin, 1994. 0140365079. A Young Puffin story book for those who have developed reading fluency. Pp.87, b/w illustrations by Maureen Bradley throughout. Pbk, cover illustration by David Kearney. VG.

Court and Culture: Dutch Literature 1350-1450. (Translated by Arnold J Pomerans).

OOSTROM, FRITS PIETER VAN. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 0520067770. 1st ed. "A ground-breaking study of Dutch court culture in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, this book also interweaves dynastic history, documentary evidence, art, architecture, and literature to pro...

Many Are the Travellers.

MELONEY, WILLIAM BROWN. · 1954 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: W.H.Allen, 1954. "..the story of a dynastic family - the Tracys - who dominate the environs of the small town in which for centuries they have had their roots." Pp.288. Maroon cloth, d/w rubbed to rear. VG/VG.

The Monster of Mu.

RUTTER, OWEN. · 1932 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Ernest Benn, 1932. 1st edition. New Ninepenny Novels Number 22. "The thrilling story of the race for treasure in the pacific and its tragic ending involving an uncharted island inhabited by an unknown race of pygmies". Pp.159, occasional line illustrations, slight toni...

Effie's Friends; Or Chronicles of Woods and Shore.

ANON. [ LADY AUGUSTA NOEL (NEE) KEPPEL ]. · 1875 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London: James Nisbet, 1875. Victorian children's short stories written anonomously by Lady Augusta Noel ,wife of Ernest Noel and daughter of General George Thomas Keppel. Stories include: The Swallow's Story; The Peacock's Story; The Sparrow's Story; and The Seagull's Story. P...

Tryphena's Summer.

OWEN, WILLIAM. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Auckland: Collins, 1974. 1st ed. "In Tryphena's Summer, William Owen has taken the Island of Great Barrier in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf and adapted it to set the scene for this full, robust, novel of action, alive with colourful characters." This novel was a runner-up in the Auc...

Brothers to the Wind.

PUTNAM, VII. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Methuen, 1960. "Vanita Mitchell is nearly eight when her large family, recently arrived from France and England, move to a California ranch. The 'gajos' (non-gypsies) don't worry this carefree community; only the hostile 'wofudi man' (a gypsy-hater) tries to interfere,...

High Deryni. (Volume III of the Chronicles of the Deryni).

KURTZ, KATHERINE. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Century, 1986. 0712694994. "High Deryni is the third book in the Chronicles of the Deryni: Katherine Kurtz's fantasy trilorgy set in the imaginary kingdom of Gwynedd..an addictive story of romantic fantasy - where a boy-king and a host of Holy Church priests form the o...

The Gathering of Brother Hilarius.

FAIRLESS, MICHAEL (PSEUD. OF MARGARET FAIRLESS). · 1901 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: John Murray, 1901. 0. First Edition. A good tight binding: Lilac cloth, stamped in green, red and gilt, with yapp fore-edges, t.e.g. Boards rubbed and sunned. Neat ink insrciption to front free-endpaper, otherwise quite a nice copy of her first novel.

The Son of the Sun.

CALDECOTT, MOYRA. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Allison & Busby, 1986. 0850316472. 1st ed. "This is a historical novel with a difference. Haunting and full of surprises, it is set in ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty..events are seen from the point of view of.Smenkhkare - that mysterious and el...

Dr Gruber's Daughter.

ELLIOTT, JANICE. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. 0340397624. 1st ed. "There is such a thing as evil and it has a daughter, as Janice Elliott - displaying the versatility of her writing - reveals in her wittiest and most ingeniously original novel to date." Pp.159, very minor spotting to clos...