Letteratura

East Anglia in Verse and Prose.

WILSON, ANGUS. (EDITOR). · 1982 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Secker & Warburg,1982. 0436576074. 1st edition. "A book of contrasts; between aristocratic households and rural villages; between the religious heart of the land and the bawdy irreverence of those who work it. Always present is a sense of history, of a world still touc...

The Bengali Book of English Verse.

DUNN, THEODORE DOUGLAS. (EDITOR). · 1918 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co, 1918. 1st edition. "The verse collected in this volume represents about one hundred years of poetical effort; and has its origin in England's introduction into India of western education." (Foreword by Sir Rabindranath Tagore). 23cms x14.5cms. P...

On Directing Shakespeare.

BERRY, RALPH. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. 0241126894. 1st edition. Interviews with contemporary directors, including: Jonathan Miller, Konrad Swinarski, Trevor Nunn, Michael Kahn, Robin Phillips, Georgio Strehler, Peter Brook, Adrian Noble, Bill Alexander, Declan Donnellan, Sir Peter Hal...

Antigrav.

STRICK, PHILIP. (EDITOR). · 1975 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Hutchinson, 1975. 0091224500. 1st edition. Anthology of Science Fiction short stories by Stanislaw Lem, Theodore Sturgeon, James Blish, Brian W.Aldiss, John Sladek, Harry Harrison, Barry N.Malzberg, Ron Goulart, and others. Pp.184. Black cloth, dustwrapper has slight s...

The Fairy Tale. The Magic Mirror of Imagination.

JONES, STEVEN SWANN. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. 0805709509. 1st edition. Twayne's Studies in Literary Themes and Genres series. "From their prehistoric roots in oral narrative to their contemporary manifestations in books, films, music, and other media, fairy tales have unceasingly appeale...

The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765. Edited by her Kinsman Alexander Blacker Kerr.

KNOX, CLEONE. [KING-HALL, MAGDALEN]. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

New York: D.Appleton and Company, 1926. 1st US edition Pp.249, errata slip tipped-in to foreword page, gift message to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers. Green cloth spine with patterned paper-covered boards rather rubbed, oritinal paper label to spine darkened. Good. "...

When I'm a Man or Little Saint Christopher. (Illustrated by W.H.C.Groome).

WEBER, ALICE. · 1888 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1888. 1st edition. 21cms x 17cms. All edges gilt. Pp.189, frontispiece + 12 further full page illustrations by W.H.C.Groome + many other illustrations within the text, brown floral endpapers. Brown illustrated cloth, front board rubbed...

Some New Letters and Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.

HEARN, LAFCADIO./ ICHIKAWA, SANKI (EDITOR). · 1925 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1925. 1st edition. "Lafcadio Hearn, also called (from 1895) Koizumi Yakumo (1850-1904) writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West." (Encyc.Brit). Pp.xviii/430, occasional light spotting. Black cloth, origina...

Plays, Acting and Music. (signed).

SYMONS, ARTHUR. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Duckworth and Co, 1903. 1st edition. Essays. Pp.196, photo portrait frontispiece (Eleonora Duse) + 9 further black & white plates, signed by Arthur Symons to front free endpaper, bookplate of Disabled Officers Residential Club to inside front board, slight toning to pa...

Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction.

WILLIAMS. IOAN. (EDITOR). · 1968 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. 1st edition. "This collection of Essays and Reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists..The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historic...

An Heir For The Earl.

DRYSDALE, MARGARET. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Robert Hale, 1983. 0709009313. 1st edition. Historical fiction about the Earl of Leicester, his mistress - the widowed Countess of Sheffield, An old live now widowed - Lettice, Countess of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth I. Pp.188, incribed by the author "For Anita and John...

Shakespeare's Bawdy. A Literary & Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossary.

PARTRIDGE, ERIC. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Routledge, 1947. 1st edition. No 321 of a limited edition of 1000. "An examination of the "Bawdy" in Shakespeare from the literary, psychological and lexicographical standpoints..Comprises chapters on the various aspects of the "Bawdy" - non-sexual, sexual, homosexual,...

Ezra Pound: Purpose / Form / Meaning.

KORN, MARIANNE. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Middlesex Polytechnic Press, 1983. 0862060087. 1st edition. "The aim of this book is to suggest a formal reading of the Pound text. It explains the sense in which writing, prose and poetry, approached a single activity for Pound; in which his theory illuminates his pra...

Blood Hunt.

GUNN, NEIL M. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1952. 1st edition. "Retired from the sea, after his fill of adventures and violence and love, old Sandy lives quietly alone in a remote Highland cottage with a barn, a temperamental cow, a few books and a few hundred pounds in the bank. It is the tra...

Jeshua. (He Who Laughed).

LOWRIE, CHARLES. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1947. 1st edition. The discovery of a papyrus unfolds the story of a Roman General in Palestine in the time of Jeshua. Pp.256. Blue cloth, three spots to front board, dustwrapper rubbed and creased with 1cm hole to centre of spine. Good/Good.

Dimitri and the False Tsars. (Translated by Anthea Bell).

BAUMANN, HANS. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972. 0340159243. 1st British edition. Originally published in Germany under the title "Dimitri und die Falschen Zaren". "A true historical mystery, was Dimitri, who succeeded Boris Godunov as Tsar of Russia in 1605, really the son of Ivan the Te...

No Laughing Matter

SIMPSON, DOROTHY. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: Michael Joseph, 1993. 0718137086. 1st edition. Dorothy Simpson's twelfth criime novel. "When Inspector Thanet of Kent CID is called to the laboratory at a local Kentish vineyard he finds a horrifying scene. Broken glass everywhere, in chunks, shards and splinters. And ...

The Death Ceremony.

MELVILLE, JAMES. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Secker & Warburg, 1985. 0436276968. 1st edition. Crime thriller featuring Japanese Superintendent Otani. "A first-rate crime story and an exploration of Japanese society conducted with wit, sympathy, and formidable expertise." Pp.181. Black cloth, dustwrapper illustrat...

The Day Of Recompense By Silas K. Hocking With Original Illustrations By A. Twidle .

HOCKING, SILAS K. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Frederick Warne And Co. 1899 . 0. Signed First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 8.0" x 5.5" x 1.25". pp.2/pp.357/[4pp. - Adverts]. Bright red cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to both the front board and spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine dulle...

Puritan and Anglican. Studies in Literature.

DOWDEN, EDWARD. · 1900 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.Ltd, 1900. 1st edition. Contents includes: I.Puritanism and English Literature; II.Sir Thomas Browne; III.Richard Hooker; IV.Anglo-Catholic Poets: Herbert, Vaughan; V.Milton: Civil Liberty; VI.Milton II - Ecclesiastical and Theological ...