Narrativa e romanzi

Two Moons.

JOHNSTON, JENNIFER. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: Headline Book Publishing. 1999. "A novel of love and intimacy, this book is a warm and resonant as it is delightfully inventive". Pp 232. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

Il Piacere dell'ozio. A cura di Paola Sorge.

HESSE, HERMANN. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Tascabili Economici Newton. 1995. Literature: Italian text. Pp 88, slight toning to pages. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

Sylvia'a Lovers.

GASKELL, ELIZABETH. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥949)

Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1991. "Sylvia is a heroine loved by two men or completely different types - the bold sailor Charley Kinraid and the cautious and conventional Philip Hepburn, who idolizes her. Follows her development from a wilful, imaginative, but not especial...

Frost.

JENNINGS, ELIZABETH. · 1964 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. 1964. 1st ed. "This study of Frost's poetry, from the early poems written before the First World War to those which he published in the last year of his long and fruitful life, gives due emphasis to Frost as a man and writer who was keenly aware of ...

A Bride for Sir Charles.

FREEMAN, EDITH. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Sudbury: Don Fraser Print, 1994. 0952329506. 1st ed. "A contemporary drama of Eastshire life". Pp 85, some b/w illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

The Delightful Adventures of Toby Ant.

UNCLE BILL (WILLIAM T KENNEDY). · 1980 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Ft.Lauderdale:Privately printed, 1980. Read-Aloud Bedtime stories. "The Toby Ant stories were invented by a father seeking a way to calm his children during that all important bed-time period." Pp.4/86, inscribed by the author to copyright page, typed re-order slip pasted to i...

Emmerdale Farm. Book 21. Another Door Opens.

MACKENZIE, LEE. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Fontana. 1986. "Based on the successful Yorkshire television series originated by Kevin Laffan". Pp 173. P/b, slight crease to front cover, slight scuffing to spine, illustrated cover. G+.

Emmerdale Farm. Book 12. Face Value.

MACKENZIE, LEE. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Fontana. 1984. "Based on the successful Yorkshire television series originated by Kevin Laffan". Pp 157, slight toning to pages. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

Trousered Apes. A study in the influence of literature on contemporary society.

WILLIAMS, DUNCAN. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Churchill Press Ltd, 1971. 1st ed. ".Professor Williams adopts the view that literature should reflect an 'ideal' world and inspire man with a vision of high possibilities." Pp. 10. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated dustwrapper has chipped edges. VG/G+.

From Dante to Jeanne D'Arc. Adventures in Medieval Life and Letters.

BREGY, KATHERINE. · 1933 · Chilton Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1933. 1st ed. "In the present instance her combined scholarship and artistry have risen to the opportunity afforded her in this series of medieval studies, introduced by her widely known Dante essay .." Pp. 13/138, ex college library bookpl...

Shakespeare the Professional and Related Studies.

MUIR, KENNETH. · 1973 · Chilton Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1973. 1st ed. "These studies of Shakespeare as a professional writer have all appeared, in earlier versions, during the last ten years." Pp. 2/237, ex college library stamps to verso front board, sub-title page and title page, scuff mar...

Points of View: From Kipling to Graham Greene. (Translated from the French by Hamish Miles.)

MAUROIS, ANDRE. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Frederick Muller, 1969. 1st ed. Essays, originally written as lectures designed for and addressed to French audiences. Pp. 18/409, 11 b/w portrait illustrations, owner's name to fep, slight spotting to page edges not affecting text. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

The Resources and Influence of English Literature. National Book Council First Annual Lecture.

TEMPLE, WILLIAM. · 1943 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: National Book Council,1943. 1st ed. Pamphlet. Pp.24. Wraps rubbed and sunned. G+.

Storyworlds. 1. A Multicultural Anthology.

BROWN, RICHARD. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 1988. "Storyworlds 1 and 2 are multicultural collections of traditional and contemporary literature for junior and lower secondary pupils. The books include myths, legends, folk tales, fables, poems, prayers, short stories, extracts from novels and pl...

The Snatching of Bookie Bob and other Stories. (Penguin 60's Series).

RUNYON, DAMON. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1995. "Five fast-moving, hard-boiled stories of New York life by the author of Guys and Dolls". 14cms x 11cms. Pp 88. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

Angus Wilson. (Writers and their Work. No.208).

GRANSDEN, K.W. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥949)

London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1969. 1st ed. "Angus Wilson, one of the most highly esteemed of contemporary English novelists: his first collection of short stories, The Wrong Set, appeared in 1949. Most of his work deals with English character; he records with great accuracy t...

The Development of English Prose Between 1918-1939.

FORSTER, E.M. · 1945 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Glasgow: Jackson, Son & Co. 1945. "It is a period between two wars - the Long Week-End it has been called - and many of the books published in it bear traces of this. They look backward-like Siegfried Sasson's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer- and try to record tragedy of the pa...

Somerset Maugham.

BROPHY, JOHN. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1952. 1st ed. "Somerset Maugham, who was born in 1874, is, and has for many decades been, among the most popular authors writing in English. His fame is international - as a dramatist, a novelist, and as a short story writer". Pp 48, portrait to f...

Seventeenth Century Contexts.

WILLIAMSON, GEORGE. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London: Faber & Faber, 1963. 2nd Imp. "It throws much light on the background of thought and feeling of the seventeenth century, and the information it provides is of the kind that must be taken into account by the interpretative critic when he forms his judgments on the write...

The Use of Imagination: Educational Thought and the Literary Mind.

WALSH, WILLIAM. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. 2nd Imp. "In this original book Professor Walsh discusses the bearing of imaginative literature upon educational theory .." Pp. 252, ex college library stamps to verso front board, fep and title page. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has numb...