Letteratura

Frank Oldfield. Or Lost and Found.

WILSON, T.(THEODORE)P.(PERCIVAL). · 1912 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: T.Nelson and Sons and The United Kingdom Band of Hope Union, nd.(c.1912). 0. "The Committee of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union having offered prizes of One Hundred Pounds, and Fifty Pounds respectively, for the two best illustrative of Temperance in its relation ...

Where the East Wind Blows.

MAIR, ALISTAIR. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

London: Heinemann, 1972. 0434441031. 1st edition. "The slow, timeless rhythm of the Western Isles is beautifully evoked to form the backgrounde to this story of suspense as it deftly builds up to a pitch of excitement and expectancy." Pp.233. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has chip t...

The Hitler Diaries. A Novel.

HUGO, RICHARD. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: Macmillan, 1982. 0333336208. 1st edition. "In April 1945 the Russian secret service, noted for its ruthlessness and efficiency, allowed a British officer to walk out of the Berlin bunker carrying a diary found on a chair in the Fuhrer's study. Known sometimes as 'Hitle...

Cage & Wing.

KENDON, FRANK. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. 0. 1st edition. Although slightly altered for publication this was awarded the Seatonian Prize for 1946 for a poem on the subject "Freedom to Worship". Pp.18. Grey card covers, minor creasing to corners. VG.

Jacob & Thomas: Darkness.

KENDON, FRANK. · 1950 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. 0. 1st edition. "A dialogue in darkness in an Eastern house between two old men, met again after forty years, of whom one is the man who once, when young and rich, asled Christ the question, "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?...

The Art of the Gawain-Poet.

DAVENPORT, W.A. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: University of London/Athlone Press, 1978. 048512050X. 1st edition. "Starting from the assumption that "Pearl, Purity, Patience" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" are by one poet, W.A.Davenport seeks to define the nature of his art..Many of the problems experienced ...

The Orion Line.

LUARD, NICHOLAS. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Secker & Warburg,1976. 1st edition. "Underground cells of men and women, heroes, traitors, patriots and criminals, running a wartime network that spanned Europe from Belgium to the Spanish border. That was the Orion Line. But the Orion Line had been penetrated and smas...

The Dirty Area.

LUARD, NICHOLAS. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 0241101301. 1st edition. "He was called Ross Callum and in the Tangier straits he was a legend. A flamboyant hell-raising womaniser who, until he disappeared, had owned the fastest launch on the coast and made a fortune running guns to the Sahel ...

The Mirror Of The Sinful Soul : A prose translation from the French of a poem by Queen Margaret of Navarre, made in 1554 by the Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth, then eleven years of age...

AMES, PERCY W. (EDITOR) . / MARGUERITE, QUEEN, CONSORT OF HENRY II, KING OF NAVARRE, 1492-1549. · 1897 · Chilton Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London : Asher and Co, 1897. 0. First edition. "Reproduced in facsimile, with portrait, for the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, and edited, with an introduction and notes by Percy W. Ames." Excerpt from the Introduction: "This translation, made by Queen Eliz...

Wolf the Mechanical Dog. (Illustrations by Pat Leyshun).

WELDON, FAY. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: William Collins Sons & Co, 1988. 0001847929. 1st edition. "Fay Weldon's picture of a future world is both frightening and funny. Even though machines are dominant it is still possible for human children to throw a spanner in the works." Unpaginated, distinctive black a...

Khalida. (Signed)

PERKINS, KEN. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Quartet Books, 1991. 070432783X. 1st edition. The author's first novel. "Aden in the 1960s. A young British soldier, Corporal Kelly has been seduced by an Arab woman in her desperate bid to divert him from an explosives cache. Unknown to Kelly, his daaughter Khalida ha...

Sir Thomas Wyatt. Selected Poems.

SCOTT, HARDIMAN.(EDITOR). · 1996 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Manchester: Fyfield Books, 1996. 1857542290. 1st edition. "Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), 'the first great English lyric poet', remains one of the most popular writers of Henry VIII's court, and the most romantic, given his entanglement with Anne Boleyn, which resulted - legend...

The Lord's Brother and Other Verses.

PENSTONE, M.M. · 1898 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1898. 0. 1st edition. Religious poetry. Pp.58/6(ads), endpapers dusty. White card covers with gilt title to front, covers grubby. G.

The Black The Grey and The Gold.

FORD, NORMAN R. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Souvenir, 1962. 0. 1st British edition. A novel about a scandal at a military academy. "Here is the fictional behind-the-scenes world of West Point, from the cadets' quarters to the officers' homes." Pp.450, light toning to endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has tonin...

Salute to Port De Grave and other Poems.

PARSONS, RICHARD AUGUSTUS. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Ontario: The Ontario Publishing Company Ltd, 1975. 1st edition. "In this little volume Dr Parsons has distilled the essence of his keen insight into the everyday world around us..Adrift as we seem to be in an apparently irreversible tide of North American "culture", we are gra...

The St Nicholas Anthology. With an introduction by May Lamberton Becker.

COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE. (EDITOR). · 1948 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

New York: Random House,1948. 1st ed. Anthology of children's stories and poems by such authors as: Pyle, Candler Harris, Theodore Roosevelt, Tennyson, Longfellow, Kipling, Harte, Ingalls Wilder, London, Hodgson Burnett, Mapes Dodge. + a selection of stories/poems written by ch...

The Book Against God.

WOOD, JAMES. · 2003 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. 0224063952. 1st edition. ""James Wood's novel brings a new comic voice to British fiction - edgy, lyrical, intellectual and passionate. 'The Book Against God' explores questions of belief and unbelief, truth and lies, the relation of father and son...

Be Near Me.

O'HAGAN, ANDREW. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Faber & Faber, 2006. 0571216021. 1st edition. "In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals. Over the spring and summer of 2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa: by the y...

Poems.

BERESFORD, GILBERT. · 1891 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1891. 0. 1st edition. Victorian Poetry by the author of "Rizpah and Early Poems". Pp.viii/104. Green cloth with gilt illustrated title to front, publisher's label to front board. VG.

The Song of the Cold.

SITWELL, EDITH. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

New York: Vanguard Press, 1948. 0. 1st edition. Poetry. Pp.113, signed gift inscription from the author to Maria-Eugenia Huneeus to front free endpaper, slight toning to endpapers. Red cloth, sunning to spine. G+. **"HUNEEUS Maria Eugenia. Passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2...