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Sudbury Leaflets : Poetry and Prose, Original And Selected.

[ WRIGHT, JAMES ] . · 1864 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London : A. W. Bennett, Bishopsgate Street. / Sudbury: J. Wright, 1864. 0. First edition. A very good original Victorian Binding. 8vo. 7.5" x 4.5" x 0.75". pp.8/pp.156 . Green cloth covered boards, with blind-stamped decoration. Gilt title: "Sudbury Leaflets." to top of the fr...

Chromatic Airs. A Selection of Verse.

BULL, ARTHUR J. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Chorley: The Chorley Guardian Co Ltd, 1948. 1st edition. Collection of poetry. Pp.80, signed by the author "Most Faithfully Yors, Arthur J.Bull" to reverse of title page.Paperback, faded to edges. Good.

Jousts of Aphrodite. Erotic Verse Translated from the Original Greek.

KELLY, MICHAEL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Chingford: Forest Books, 1986. 0948259345. 1st edition. "The erotic content of the Greek Anthology, a collection of poems assembled by Byzantine scholars nearly a thousand years ago, has long been consigned to the obscurity of specialized academic study. Here, in his humorous ...

Natural Causes. (Signed).

MOTION, ANDREW. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. 070113271X. 1st edition. Collection of poems written by the future Poet Laureate (1999 to 2009). Pp.57, inscribed by the author (Robin love Andrew) to title page with a line through the author's printed name, owner's name "Robin Duthy" to front f...

The Muleskinner.

MACLEOD, ROBERT. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Gold Lion Books, 1972. 1st edition. "Among the savage, ceaseless horizons of this godforsaken country, nobody cared who or what a man really was. All that counted was what he seemed to be. An Ben Davis seemed to be a walking, breathing challenge to every brawling drift...

Mildred's Mistake. A Still Life Study.

LEVIEN, F. · 1877 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1877. 1st edition. By the author of "Little Ada's Jewels". Pp.256, colour title page and colour chromolithograph frontispiece + 4 black & white illustrated plates, owner's names to front free endpaper and reverse of frontispiece, spotting to endpapers...

Accepted Addresses By George Augustus Sala.

SALA, GEORGE AUGUSTUS . · 1862 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine Street, Strand, 1862 . 0. First edition. A very good half calf binding. [4pp.]/pp.307/[1p. - Adverts] . Green calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with 4 raised bands and leather title label...

When We Were Boys. (A Novel).

O'BRIEN, WILLIAM. (M.P). · 1890 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1890. 1st edition. A Fenian romance with a land reform theme set in 1860 Pp.550/16(ads), occasional minor spotting throughout, cracking to inner rear hinge but holding. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, bumps to corners and minor edge wear. Good...

Asya.

IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 0701135093. 1st edition. "The compelling account of one indomitable woman's path through revolution, war and exile, 'Asya' is above all an enthralling love story which encompasses some of the momentous historical events of our time." Pp.309, sign...

Plays on the Word. Christian Drama for Churches, Schools and Youth Groups.

HAYLOCK, DEREK. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: National Society/Church House, 1993. 0715148249. 1st edition. Eighteen witty, fast-moving sketches ideal for family services, school assemblies, youth clubs and church drama groups. In each sketch a serious message about the gospel is conveyed clearly through the humou...

While The Bells Ring. (illustrated by Janet Rawlins).

MAYNE, WILLIAM. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 024189932X. 1st edition. "A story about people, but it is also a story about landscape, in which the Dales setting plays an important part. The artist, Janet Rawlins, knows and loves the Yorkshire Dales and her pictures perfectly complement Willi...

World's End and Other Stories.

THEROUX, PAUL. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. 0241104475. 1st edition. Pp.211. Blue cloth, dustwrapper (illustration by Michael Foreman) is price-clipped, minor wear to top edge. VG/VG.

When the Words are Gone.

SCOTT, HARDIMAN. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Chatto and Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1972 0701119144. 1st edition. The Phoenix Living Poets series. "The majority of poems in this collection are concerned with East Anglia, its natural and human and historical landscapes, and particularly the first of these, in the fo...

After All. A Play in Three Acts.

VAN DRUTEN, JOHN. · 1929 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1929. 1st edition. " 'After All' was first produced under the auspices of the Incorporated Stage Society and the Three Hundred Club at the Apollo Theatre on the evening of Sunday, May 5th, 1929. Since that production the play has been very largely re...

Jealous Woman. [and Sinful Woman].

CAIN, JAMES M. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955. 1st British edition which includes the first British hardcover printing of Sinful Woman. Two novels of violent action and emotion. Pp224, minor spotting to closed page edges, owner's name to inside front board. Black cloth, illustrated dustwr...

Some Newly Discovered Stanzas Written by John Milton on Engraved Scenes Illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses.

MILTON, JOHN / CANDY, HUGH C.H.(REVISOR). · 1924 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd, 1924. 1st edition. This Milton-Ovid Script was written, circa 1623; discovered, 1921; first printed, in Notes and Queries, 1922-3; and is now revised and reprinted, in one volume, with many additional notes by Hugh C.H.Candy. Pp.192, black & white por...

The Seasons of the Blind and Other Radio Plays in Verse.

SCRIVEN, R.C. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1974. 0563126604. 1st edition. R.C.Scriven was a free-lance journalist and radio dramatist, despite being nearly stone deaf since the age of eight and blind for much of his life. Pp.184. Black cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with minor...

The Shaping of Modern French Poetry. Reflections on Unrhymed Poetic Form 1840-1990.

LITTLE, ROGER. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995. 1857541898. 1st edition. "This book is uniquely designed for those interested in the radical possibilities of poetry, and for students of French literature at graduate and undergraduate level." Pp.viii/117, mild spotting to closed page edges n...

Tunc.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. 1st edition. By the author of The Alexandria Quartet. Pp.316, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed. G+/G+.

Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

BELLAMY, LIZ. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Cambridge:University Press, 1998. 0521622247. 1st edition. "British culture underwent radical change in the eighteenth century with the emergence of new literary genres and discourses of social analysis. As novelists developed the fictional form, writers of economic tracts and...