Letteratura

Zorn.

JONES, JONAH. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Heinemann, 1986. 1st ed. "With its haunting characters and narrative power, Zorn is a remarkably rich and well-crafted novel - a mystery, an adventure, an almost mythic story of suffering and endurance. From the quiet of a peninsula woodland in Britain to the horrors o...

Mists and Magic. (Illustrated by Jill Bennett).

EDWARDS, DOROTHY.(EDITOR). · 1983 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 0718825373. 1st ed. "In new stories written by favourite authors especially for this book, in folk tales and legends and poems, Dorothy Edwards brings together spells and charms, witches and mermaids, the creatures of the other world and the...

High Jinx.

BUCKLEY, WILLIAM F. JR. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Century, 1986. 0712614435. 1st ed. Seventh spy novel featuring Blackford Oates. Pp.216. Red cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

Looking for the Last Big Tree.

FOSS, MICHAEL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Michael O'Mara, 1986. 0948397152. 1st ed. "Looking For The Next Big Tree is a novel about man's search for new frontiers, about regaining a lost paradise. The setting is the north-west coast of Canada, the time-scale two centuries, the protagonists the local Indians, S...

A State of Corruption.

GEDDES, PAUL. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: The Bodley Head, 1985. 0370308549. 1st ed. Hardback. "Antonia Strachan was not the Director of the Central Crimes Bureau's firts choice for the delicate inquiry which had landed on his desk. But Antrim could not wait: the Prime Minister had been warned that a major fin...

A Choice of Nightmares.

DORNER, MARJORIE. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Michael Joseph, 1987. 0718127986. 1st ed. Hardback. "Finely written, taut and atmospheric, 'A Choice of Nightmares' is a gripping psychological thriller which marks the debut of a writer of extraordinary power." Pp.266, slight toning to pages. Blue cloth, d/w illustrat...

The Prose For God: Religious and anti-religious aspects of imaginative literature.

GREGOR, IAN AND STEIN, WALTER.(EDITORS). · 1973 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Sheed and Ward, 1973. 1st ed. Ex-Priory library. "Today we no longer look, as men perhaps still did a century ago, only to theologians for help in forming our moral judgements. It is as much, or more, to the creative artist, the novelist or the poet, that we turn." The...

Pollack & Carnival: Cornish Short Stories.

WALKHAM, WALTER. (PSEUD). · 1980 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Padstow: Tabb House, 1980. 0907018033. 1st ed. ".a collection of stories of youth in Cornwall during the nineteen-twenties and 'thirties'." Pp.61, occassional b/w illustrations by William Hugo White. Pbk, slightly rubbed. G+.

The Domino Plan. (Introducing Storm English).

GRANVILLE, EDGAR. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London: Bachman & Turner, 1975. 0859740285. 1st ed. "Domino - the most ruthless unconvicted financial operator in both hemispheres. What happens when he comes up against Storm English, master criminologist, who claims he can stop the crime explosion?" Pp.208, mild spotting to ...

Empire Born.

COOK, STEPHEN. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. 0340379774. 1st ed. "A highly evocative novel ranging from the last days of colonial Africa to the barricades of Brixton." Pp.192, toned lines to endpapers. Blue cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

Tides and Fashions.

BLAIR. (WALLACE WILFRED BLAIR-FISH). · 1969 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ipswich: Norman Adlard and Company, 1969. 1st ed. "With the advice of several of his friends, his widow has assembled these poems as a memorial to a genuine poet whose work reflected the changing tides and fashions of over fifty years of writing." Pp.65, b/w photo portrait fro...

Criticism and Creation. With some other essays.

GRIERSON, H.J.C. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Chatto and Windus,1949. 1st ed. In this collection of 5 essays on literary criticism, the author "discusses the perpetual conflict between artist and critic; the difficulties and accomplishments of verse translations; and, in a group of three papers, some problems of D...

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman with Extracts from his Letters and Remarks on his Writings.

KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE. · 1896 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner, 1896. 1st ed. Contents: Part I. Memories, Letters, etc. Part II. Drift and Cumulus. Part III. The Style of Leaves of Grass. Pp.14/190, decorative bookplate to inside front board, front hinge cracked. Brown cloth spine with dark yellow clo...

A Christmas Garland.

YONGE, MARGERET. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Methuen, 1934. 1st ed. Poetry. Ex theological college library. Pp.8/120, some pages uncut, library inkstamps to endpapers and title page. Red cloth, spine faded, original paper label for front loosely inserted. G+.

The City at the Water's Edge.

BRYANT, CHARLES W. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Ilfracombe: Arthur H.Stockwell, 1965. 1st ed. Author's second volume of poems. "His poetry combines symbolism and vision, as in "The City at the Water's Edge", which is both an impression and a tale of Venice.." Pp.48, marked as 'Review copy' and signed by the author. Green cl...

The Curious Death of the Novel. Essays in American Literature.

RUBIN, JR. LOUIS D. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Baton Rougr: Louisiana State University Press, 1967. 1st ed. "The collection includes imaginative studies of Henry James, Mark Twain, Edmund Wilson and Karl Shapiro. Several Southern writers, including Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, and James B...

Poems of St Therese of Lisieux.

BANCROFT, ALAN.(TRANSLATOR). · 1996 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Fount, 1996. 0006279503. 1st ed. "Bancroft captures the intelligence and fervour of Therese's verse. The fifty poems - like her prose - celebrate her joyous surrender to the glory of God." Pp.40/192, slight toning to pages, minor chipping to lower edge of first couple ...

E.E.Cummings: A Collection of Critical Essays.

FRIEDMAN, NORMAN.(EDITOR). · 1972 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972. 1st ed. Twentieth Century Views series. Ex college library. Pp.6/185, library inkstamps to front endpapers and title page, scuffing to fep. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

The Divine Average: A View of Comedy.

MCCOLLOM, WILLIAM G. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971. 1st ed. Ex college library. "This critical study defines comedy as an amusing, relatively discontinuous action concerning success or failure in social relations.." Pp.12/231, ink stamps to front endpapers and title...

Beginning Of The Way. A Nativity Play.

RAEBURN, HENZIE. · 1941 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Religious Drama Society, nd.(c.1941). "'Beginning of The Way' is dedicated ti The Pilgrim Players of Canterbury, for whom it was written." First presented in Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield, on December 6th, 1940. Pp.32, owners name to first page. Pbk, slight sunning...