Letteratura

The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age.

DICKSON CARR, JOHN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1983. 0385187149. 1st edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas G. Greene. "Nine never-before-published radio plays by the late John Dickson Carr..Here, all the hallmarks of Carr's classic detective novel...

Monsignor Quixote.

GREENE, GRAHAM. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: The Bodley Head, 1982. 0370309235. 1st edition. The book is a pastiche of the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes with many moments of comedy, but also offers reflection on matters such as life after a dictatorship, Communism, and the Catholic fait...

New Legends . Poems By Hervey Allen .

ALLEN, HERVEY [ WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN 1889-1949] / PRIESTLEY, J. B. (SIGNED) . · 1929 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, On Murray Hill, MCMXXIX [ 1929 ] . 0. Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm [7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75"]. pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards, edges lightly rubbed, with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles...

Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa 1747-65. Volume 1. Only. Prefaces, Postscripts and Related Writings.

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL / KEYMER, THOMAS. (EDITOR). · 1998 · Chilton Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. 1851964614. Introduction by Jocelyn Harris. Texts edited with headnotes by Thomas Keymer. Contents includes: 1. Preliminary matter to Volumes I and II of the First Edition (December 1747); 2.William Warburton's Preface to Volumes III and IV of...

Alfred and the Pirates. (Illustrated by Emily Donegan).

FINKEL, IRVING. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Parrot Books, 2006. 1904982107. 1st edition. "Alfred Appletree is fourteen years old. While writing a history project for school about what seagoing pirates were really like he begins to experience overpowering dreams about the horrors of life on a pirate ship. Before ...

The Ten Pleasures Of Marriage And The Second Part, The Confession Of The New Married Couple, Attributed To Aphra Behn; Reprinted With An Introduction By John Harvey; And The Original Twenty Plates And Two Engraved Titles Re-engraved.

BEHN, APHRA 1640-1689 / HARVEY, JOHN (PSEUD.) / MARSH, A. (PSEUD. - TYPOGRAPHER?) . · 1922 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London: Privately Printed For The Navarre Society Limited, MCMXXII. [1922] . 0. Very Good. A study of married life from the seventeenth century, commonly attributed to female author Aphra Behn. Reprinted from the original with an introduction by John Harvey. With the original ...

The Coming of Bill.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. · 1920 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1920. 1st British edition. (First published in the US as Their Mutual Child in 1919 by Boni & Liveright, New York). "The novel tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his wife Ruth, and their young son, Bill. Bill's upbringing is interfered with by R...

Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time.

WALDRON, MARY. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 0521651301. 1st edition. Explores the nature of Jane Austen's "confrontations with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction". Pp.x/194, signed by the author to front free endp...

The Corbies.

BEITH, JANET. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. 1st edition. "Like the "twa corbies" of the old ballad, Alexander and John McGregor dwelt together in the little town of Kilbracken, whence they planned the lives of all their relatives. They were respected members of the kirk in their sanct...

The Gilded Fleece.

TRANTER, NIGEL . · 1945 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London: Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, 1945 . 0. A very good reprint of the first edition in a very good dustwrapper ( not price clipped). pp.224 . Dustwrapper after a design by W. J. Roberts - A Man and woman fleeing a burning farmstead. Edges rubbed and creased, spine dulled. Cle...

Baroola and Us. (Illustrated by Genevieve Melrose).

OLDFIELD, AUDREY. · 1973 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Richmond, Victoria: Hutchinson of Australia, 1973. 0091189802. 1st edition. "Baroola is no ordinary place, at least as far as the McKillops are concerned. Of course, if you took any family from Sydney and put them on a farm at Baroola they'd find it a bit strange at first.." P...

Who Killed Cock Robin ? : An Old Story Re-Told In Modern Colour Photography By Paul Henning .

HENNING, PAUL . · 1945 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36 Essex Street, Strand, W.C.2 , 1945 . 0. First Edition. [36pp.]. 8.75" x 5.75" . Quarter binding of red cloth with grey paper over boards. Upper cover with title, publisher and colour illustration. Light rubbing to boards and edges. Dust jacket wit...

The Museum Dramatists. Gammer Gurton's Needle By Mr. S., Mrs. Of Art [ c.1562 ] . Edited, with an introduction, Note-Book and Word-List, by John S. Farmer.

FARMER, JOHN S. (1854-1916) . · 1906 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Published by Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, 18, Bury St. (Near British Museum), MCMVI. [1906] . 0. First edition. A very good orignal binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 4.5" . pp.16/pp.75 . Green cloth covered boards, Blind stamp decoration and title to front bo...

The Museum Dramatists. The Pardoner And The Friar The Curate And Neighbour Pratt. The Four P.P. By John Heywood. Edited, with an introduction, Note-Book and Word-List, by John S. Farmer.

FARMER, JOHN S. (1854-1916) / HEYWOOD, JOHN . · 1906 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Published by Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, 18, Bury St. (Near British Museum), MCMVI. [1906] . 0. First edition. A very good orignal binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 4.5" . pp.12/pp.78 . Green cloth covered boards, Blind stamp decoration and title to front bo...

The Museum Dramatists. Ralph Roister Doister By Nicholas Udall. Edited, with an introduction, Note-Book and Word-List, by John S. Farmer.

FARMER, JOHN S. (1854-1916) / UDALL, NICHOLAS . · 1907 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Published by Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, 18, Bury St. (Near British Museum), MCMVII. [1907] . 0. First edition. A very good orignal binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 4.5" . pp.12/pp.151 . Green cloth covered boards, Blind stamp decoration and title to front ...

Armageddon.

PHILLIPS, STEPHEN. · 1905 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905. 1st edition. A Modern Epic Drama in a Prologue Series of Scenes and an Epilogue Written Partly in Prose and Partly in Verse. Pp.94, rough-cut page edges, occasional minor spotting, toning to endpapers. Green ribbed cloth, gilt title to...

Eon The Good and Other Poems.

MURRAY, CHARLOTTE. · 1896 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1896. 1st edition. Pp.viii/125, black & white portrait photograph frontispiece. White pebbled cloth a little soiled. Scarce. G+.

Contemporary Scottish Studies. (First Series).

GRIEVE, C.M. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Leonard Parsons, 1926. 1st edition. Ex Priory libary. Pp.344, library ownership inkstamp to front free endpaper, small number notation to inside front board. Navy blue cloth, gilt title to spine, minor scuff to spine. VG.

Poems in Pamphlet 1952. III. Drift. Poems and Sonnets.

BULL, A.J. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. 1st edition. Poems in Pamphlet was a monthly publication with each devoted to the work of a different poet. Pp.88, initialled dedication "For John Atkins, with sincerest good wishes, AJB" to title page, a couple of marginal notations...

An Upton Sinclair Anthology.

EVANS, I.O. (COMPILER) · 1934 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: T.Werner Laurie Ltd, 1934. 1st British edition. "In these works, as indeed in all his writings, Sinclair manifests himself as a worthy exponent of the ideals characteristic of his own nation, their dogged determination and unbounded energy, their love of freedom, thier...