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Out of the Treasure of the Heart. Sacred Poems.

JAY, ROSE. · 1902 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1902. 0. 1st ed. By the author of 'A Missionary Family' and 'I Want to go to India', with an introduction by the Rev. Preb. Webb-Peploe. Pp.xiv/124, browning to endpapers. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, boards slightly rubbed. VG.

The House of Broken Dreams.

JOPE-SLADE, CHRISTINE. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Nisbet & Co.Ltd, 1924. 0. 1st edition. Pp.320, top edge dusty but pages very clean. Blue cloth, yellow titles to front and spine. VG.

What She Could and Other Verses.

COOTE, CONSTANCE. · 1904 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1904. 1st ed. Religious poetry. Pp.112, endpapers browned. Blue cloth, gilt decorated title to front, gilt title to spine. VG.

Court and Culture: Dutch Literature 1350-1450. (Translated by Arnold J Pomerans).

OOSTROM, FRITS PIETER VAN. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 0520067770. 1st ed. "A ground-breaking study of Dutch court culture in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, this book also interweaves dynastic history, documentary evidence, art, architecture, and literature to pro...

The Monster of Mu.

RUTTER, OWEN. · 1932 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Ernest Benn, 1932. 1st edition. New Ninepenny Novels Number 22. "The thrilling story of the race for treasure in the pacific and its tragic ending involving an uncharted island inhabited by an unknown race of pygmies". Pp.159, occasional line illustrations, slight toni...

Tryphena's Summer.

OWEN, WILLIAM. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Auckland: Collins, 1974. 1st ed. "In Tryphena's Summer, William Owen has taken the Island of Great Barrier in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf and adapted it to set the scene for this full, robust, novel of action, alive with colourful characters." This novel was a runner-up in the Auc...

The Gathering of Brother Hilarius.

FAIRLESS, MICHAEL (PSEUD. OF MARGARET FAIRLESS). · 1901 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: John Murray, 1901. 0. First Edition. A good tight binding: Lilac cloth, stamped in green, red and gilt, with yapp fore-edges, t.e.g. Boards rubbed and sunned. Neat ink insrciption to front free-endpaper, otherwise quite a nice copy of her first novel.

Twenty Poems by Rupert Brooke.

BROOKE, RUPERT. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Sidgwick & Jackson,1935. 1st ed. Pp.48, + newspaper cutting illustrating Brooke's tomb at Port Trebuki. Cream card covers, portrait illustration and title to front, title to spine. G+.

The Son of the Sun.

CALDECOTT, MOYRA. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Allison & Busby, 1986. 0850316472. 1st ed. "This is a historical novel with a difference. Haunting and full of surprises, it is set in ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty..events are seen from the point of view of.Smenkhkare - that mysterious and el...

Dr Gruber's Daughter.

ELLIOTT, JANICE. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. 0340397624. 1st ed. "There is such a thing as evil and it has a daughter, as Janice Elliott - displaying the versatility of her writing - reveals in her wittiest and most ingeniously original novel to date." Pp.159, very minor spotting to clos...

Fire Falcon.

HART-DAVIS, DUFF. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. 0224020803. 1st ed. "Duff Hart-Davis builds his story to a crescendo of suspense and excitement among the great peaks of Knoydart, on the West Coast..The claustrophobia which threatens to destroy a man on the run is brilliantly contrasted with the ...

A Requiem of Sharks. (A Novel of Suspense).

BUCHANAN, PATRICK. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. 1st ed. "For Ben and Charity it was their most exciting case, a case which involved money, beautiful women, and human killers as savage as the requiem shark and much more dangerously cunning." Pp.212. Red cloth, d/w design by Roger King. VG/VG.

The Ginger Jar.

ROBINSON, JEFFREY. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1987. 0450406571. 1st ed. "Who needs the kind of nuclear material which could, correctly processed, make a nuclear bomb?.Richard Holbrook stumbles on the link between his now obsessive search, and the valuable item of antique porcelain purchased...

The Lee Shore.

STYLES, SHOWELL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: William Kimber, 1986. 0718306074. 1st ed. "Ring was a good seaman, and an unusual one in the year of 1810 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars since his mother was French. The knowledge of this language was to lead him into an alien world, a world of espionage and adve...

Tales of Sea and Shore.

HESLEWOOD, JULIET. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. 0192781057. 1st ed. "Here are twenty stories from several lands about the sea and the creatures who live in it, the people who live on its shores and those who earn a living by sailing on it." Pp.151, colour and b/w full page illustration...

Falling Apart.

SALAMAN, NICHOLAS. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Alison Press/ Secker & Warburg, 1986. 0436440873. 1st ed. "Charlet seemed to have everything going for her..Her troubles, when they started, seemed small and unimportant, though rather eerie.." Pp.190, slight toning to pages. Black cloth, d/w photograph by Luc Carson a...

The President's Brother.

MEFFORD, W.H. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Australia: Macdonald Futura, 1985. 0867710071. 1st ed. ""Eddie Lee Webster is a loud-mouthed drunkard, a bully and a boor. Worse, he is the brother of the President of the United States. That he is an embarrassment to the Administration is no secret. But as the cheif suspect i...

Tefuga.

DICKINSON, PETER. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: The Bodley Head,1986. 0370308913. 1st ed. "This is a book of vividly created worlds - Nigeria under colonial rule with all its weird anomalies, Nigeria again today teetering through corruption to a military coup, but above all the inner world of Betty Jackland, whose e...

Charles Wesley's Verse. An Introduction.

BAKER, FRANK. · 1964 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Epworth Press, 1964. 1st ed. "When Dr Baker's book 'Representative Verse of Charles Wesley' was published, one of the reviewers suggested that the introduction, which gave so much valuable information and really tried to assess Charles Wesley as a poet, should be issue...

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern.

BRAUN, LILIAN JACKSON. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London: Collins For The Crime Club, 1967. 1st ed. Second novel in the acclaimed 'Cat' series. "Newspaper reporter Qwilleran and Siamese cat Koko are again at work together on matters of robbery and murder - this time the sophisticated world of interior decoration." Pp.192, own...