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Songs of Youth and Later Poems.

O'CONNOR, PATRICK. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds Ltd, 1957. 1st ed. Poetry. Pp. 101, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Orange cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

A Choice of Sir Walter Ralegh's Verse.

NYE, ROBERT. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Faber & Faber, 1972. 1st ed. ".. Robert Nye has assembled a selection of Ralegh's poems that is self-evidently worth reading, and contributes a judicious and sympathetic assessment of their value." Pp. 72, ex college stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Blu...

William Faulkner. (Profiles in Literature Series.)

MOTTRAM, ERIC. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. 1st ed. "William Faulkner is one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century." Pp 9/110, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Dark blue cloth, portrait illustrated d/w. G+/G+.

Second Thoughts. Reflections on Literature and on Life. (Translated from the French by Adrienne Foulke.)

MAURIAC, FRANCOIS. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Darwen Finlayson, 1961. 1st ed. "Francois Mauriac, recognized as one of the world's most distinguished novelists and critics, has selected from his literary journals these penetrating and deeply moving essays on our society and its literature." Pp. 176 ex college libra...

The Tragic Mask: A Study of Faulkner's Heroes.

LONGLEY, JOHN LEWIS. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

USA: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. 1st ed. "This is a book about Faulkner's people, the multitude of saints and men of courage, villains and clowns, who inhabit the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha." Pp. 9/242, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board an...

The Truest Poetry: An Essay on the Question What is Literature?

LERNER, LAURENCE. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. 1st ed. "The Truest Poetry is a study in aesthetics, concerned with the principles of literary criticism .." Pp. 10/221, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has sunning and numb...

Middle English Religious Prose. (York Medieval Texts Series.)

BLAKE, N.F. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd, 1972. 1st ed. "This collection of texts is designed to show the continuity and at the same time the diversity of work by English writers in the religious prose tradition during the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries." Pp. 6/228, ex colle...

Some Mythical Elements in English Literature: Being the Clark Lectures 1959-60.

TILLYARD, E.M.W. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. 1st ed. "Such communal literature has certain things in common with the epic, and Dr. Tillyard's stimulating new book develops naturally from his well-known study of the English epic and its background." Pp. 143, ex college library. Red cloth, gi...

Third Day Lucky: Poems.

SKELTON, ROBIN. · 1958 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 1st ed. ".. they are all related to the exploration of a central theme, that of man's relationship with his environment, his history, and himself." Pp. 9/71, ex college libris. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w. G+/G+.

Criticism in Practice.

PEEL, MARIE. (EDITOR.) · 1964 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1964. 1st ed. "It is a book for the discriminating adult who wishes to increase his appreciation of English language and literature." Pp. 15/189, ex college library. Mauve cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w G+/G+.

The Colour of Blood. Poems by George MacBeth.

MACBETH, GEORGE. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Macmillan, 1967. 1st ed. "His work attempts - though obliquely and without consistency - to present the attitudes of a classical pessimist." Pp. 77, ex college library. Black cloth, illustrated d/w has small edge chipping. G+/G+.

A Collection of Verse and Prose. Dedicated to Almighty God and His Wonderful Work of Creation.

DENTON, SIMON. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd, 1993. 1st ed. "Here is a well-written collection of rhyme of a religious nature, some on a lighter side, for the interest of all Christians, not just Catholic readers." Pp. 84. White cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

The Youngest Camel. Reconsidered and rewritten. (Pictures by Ronni Solbert).

BOYLE, KAY. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Faber and Faber,1960. 1st ed. 23cms x 17cms. Pp.95, b/w illustrations by Ronni Solbert, owners details to fep. Orange illustrated boards, sunning to spine and top edges. G+.

French Writing on English Soil. A choice of French writing published in London between November 1940 and June 1944.

WEIGHTMAN, J.G. · 1945 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Sylvan Press, 1945. 1st ed. Selected and translated by J.G. Weightman. Contains a selection of articles originally printed in the French monthly La France Libre. Pp. 134, owner's name to fep. Light blue cloth has gilt motif to front board, title faded to spine. G+.

Brecht: A Study.

MORLEY, MICHAEL. · 1977 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Heinemann, 1977. 1st ed. "In this study Michael Morley follows Brecht's complex development stage by stage .." Pp. 7/135, ex-library. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w price-clipped and with clear protective wrap. G+/G+.

Piers Plowman. Critical Approaches.

HUSSEY, S.S. (EDITOR). · 1969 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1969. 1st ed. "Dr. Hussey has gathered together twelve original essays on 'Piers Plowman' by acknowledged specialists in medieval literature." Pp. 9/366, ex-library stamps to verso front board and fep which also has scuffing. Brown cloth, gilt title ...

A Smell of Burning.

BLACKBURN, THOMAS. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London: Putnam,1961. 1st ed. Poetry. Pp.32, college inkstamps to front endpapers and title page. Black cloth spine with marbled paper boards, scuff to front board. G+.

Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Historical Dramas.

BARRAUD, CLEMENT WILLIAM. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Longmans, Green and Co,1892. 1st ed. "These two Plays, founded on the standard works of Fr.J.Morris, S.J. and the Comate de Montalembert, were written twenty years ago(1872?). They are now published on behalf of a small school in the Colonies with which the writer is c...

New Poems. 1963. A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. (EDITOR). · 1963 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London:Hutchinson, 1963. 1st ed. Includes poems by: Kingsley Amis, Alasdair Aston, A.Alvarez, Dannie Abse, Charles Causley, Richard Church, C.Day Lewis, Thom Gunn,Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Lehmann, George Macbeth, Mervyn Peake, Sylvia Plath, Edith Sit...

Two Cats in America. (Illustrated by Ralph Steadman).

DAMJAN, MISCHA. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London: Longman Young, 1970. 1st ed. 29cms x 21cms. Unpaginated, colour illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. Illustratated laminated boards (American Indians walking off into the distance with two squaws carrying cats in papooses in foreground) slightly rubbed to spine....