Letteratura

Posthumous Parodies And Other Pieces, Composed By Several Of Our Most Celebrated Poets, But Not Published In Any Former Edition Of Their Works.

[ TWISS, HORACE (1787-1849) ] . · 1814 · Chilton Books

£148.00 (€177.43 | $195.56 | ¥31,232)

London : Printed For John Miller, 25, Bow-Street, Covent Garden, 1814 . 0. Signed first edition. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 725" x 4.75" x 0.2". pp. xi./[1p.]/pp.102/[2pp. - Errata / Adverts] . Brown Morocco spine and corners over green buckram boards. Spine with 5...

Performing the American Frontier. 1870-1906.

HALL, ROGER A. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 0521793203. 1st edition. "Examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of cinema..From famous personages such as Mark Twain and ...

Discovering Theatre Ephemera.

MELLING, JOHN KENNEDY. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Shire Publications Ltd, 1974. 085263245. 1st edition. Shire Discovering No.185. "Theatre Ephemera is a wide term because it embraces theatre, music-hall, circus, opera, ballet, concert-party, puppets, films, television and revue, with items made of paper, cardboard, cloth, woo...

Marching Soldier by Joyce Cary .

CARY, JOYCE / SYBIL THORNDIKE (SIGNATURE) . · 1945 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Michael Joseph Limited, 26 Bloomsbury Street, 1945 . 0. First edition with signature of Sybil Thorndike. [2pp.]pp.5 --28 . Original brown cloth with gilt title to front board. Slip of paper taped to the verso of the front board: "To Peter Marshall, Good wishes for xmas...

Gremlins In The Cabbage Patch. A Novel. By John Paddy Christmas .

CARSTAIRS, JOHN PADDY · 1944 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, [no date - c. 1944] . 0. Signed first edition, lacking dustwrapper. pp.120. Wrapped in stamp adressed postal envelope to: Mrs. Nina Davidson. Red cloth covers, rather soiled, with black tles to spine. "W. H. Smith & Son's Library" label to verso o...

The London Theatre 1811-1866. Selections from the Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson.

BROWN, ELUNED. (EDITOR). · 1966 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1966. 1st edition. "Crabb Robinson's theatre records extend from 1811 to 1866 - which means that, as well as Mrs Siddons, Kemble and Mrs Jordan, he saw the juvenile Ellen Terry. That is a tremendous span of unprofessional reporting. It...

Castle of Eagles.

HEAVEN, CONSTANCE. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Heinemann, 1974. 0434326224. 1st edition. A romantic novel set in nineteenth century Austria. Pp.193. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

A Man Named Seraphin.

RAY, RENE. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952. 1st edition. By the author of Emma Conquest. "Ben Seraphin was hard man, a man who liked to impose his will upon others. He prevented his sister Amy from marrying in her youtjh, but turned her out of his house years later when he himself marr...

Love is Eternal. A Novel of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln.

STONE, IRVING. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Collins, 1955. 1st edition. Biographical novel telling the story of the marriage of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. Pp.575, owner's name to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers and spotting to closed page edges. Green cloth, dustwrapper has minor spotting and chippe...

Marjorie Morningstar.

WOUK, HERMAN. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 1st edition. "Marjorie (nee Morgenstern) is Everygirl. Domiciled in New York, she has her counterpart in every city - the girl who cherishes a secret dream. In Marjorie's case the dream matured into an ambition: she belieed that it was her destiny ...

The Big Chapel.

KILROY, THOMAS. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1971. 1st edition. The Big Chapel was shortlisted for the 1971 Booker Prize and winner of 1971 the Guardian Fiction Prize. It is a novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland. An an...

Footlights and Spotlights. Recollections of My Life on the Stage.

SKINNER, OTIS. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1924. 1st edition. Signed limited edition of 500 copies. Otis Skinner(1858-1942 was an American actor who played hundreds of roles in all parts of the world in a career extending over more than 60 years. Pp.367, signed (but not numbered) to ...

An Innocent Millionaire. (signed).

VIZINCZEY, STEPHEN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983 0771087608. First Canadian edition. "Anyone can enjoy An Innocent Millionaire as an exotic-location thriller. The bonus is that it is also a fable of love, greed and modern society, peopled by rounded, cussed characters.."(ShaunUsher, D.Ma...

The Children of the Rocks. A Story of Tours. (Signed).

MADDEN, JOHN J. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Kansas City: Burton Publishing Company, 1944). 1st edition. "The Children of the Rocks is more of a study than a story. It deals with a dangerous period in history. Aperiod when civilization rested upon the issue of a single battle in the last days of September, A.D.732. In th...

Slaughter in the Sun. (A Sexton Blake Novel).

CHRISTIE, STEPHEN. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Howard Baker, 1969. 1st edition. "Murder came violently to exotic, tropic Ceylon when beautiful Angela Floyd was battered to death on a beach. It looked like the work of a maniac. But there was method in the murderer's madness Sexton Blake swiftly discovered - though n...

The Lady Investigates. Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction.

CRAIG, PATRICIA & CADOGAN, MARY. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1981. 0575028858. 1st edition. "An absorbing look at the changing status of women in the detective story and the spy thriller..As they say, the idea of a woman detective is 'bound to appear progressive', even if she's only an elderly busybody and p...

Some Early Impressions.

STEPHEN, LESLIE. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Hogarth Press, 1924. 1st edition. The following reminiscences were written in 1903 and were published in the National Review at the end of that year. Pp.194/4(publisher's catalogue), page from The Literary Guide and Nationalist Review (September 1, 1908)"Some Unpublish...

A Miracle of Love. (signed).

CORKERY, SIMON. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Leap, Co.Cork: The Macabea Press, 1997. 0953064204. 1st edition. "Christina is a child miraculously saved after abortion by the merciful intervention of a trainee nurse. Adopted by loving parents, Christina lives life to the full unaware of the drama unfolding itself regarding...

The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773.

REDDICK, ALLEN. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 0521361605. 1st edition. "Reddick details the conception, composition, and writing of the Dictionary between the years 1746 and 1755, as well as the great revision of 1771-73. In the process, Reddick argues that the Dictionary does ...

The Historical Method of Herodotus.

LATEINER, DONALD. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. 0802057934. 1st edition. "An innovative writer in an innovative century, Herodotus made sense of a congeries of myth, poetry, monuments, and oral narratives suffused with parochial and ethnic prejudices. Now for the first time these ...