Letteratura

Baubles Bangles and Poetry.

MOWER, JANE. · 2010 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Leiston: Leiston Press, 2010. 9780956601223. 1st edition. By "The Sunrise Poet" as heard on Sunday mornings on the Steve Foster and Bob Shelley Happy Hour on BBC Radio Suffolk. Pp.92, signed by the author and illustrator (Jasmine Simmons) to title page. Paperback. VG.

Coming Into Eighty. New Poems by May Sarton .

SARTON, MAY (1912-1995) . · 1992 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1992 . 0. Signed limited edition. Colophon (on last leaf) : "This edition, designed by John Kristensen, was printed letterpress from Fairfield type on Mohawk Superfine paper and bound at Firefly press, Somerville, Massachuse...

Charles Fort: A Radical Corpuscle. By Sam Moskowitz .

MOSKOWITZ, SAM (1920 - 1997 ) . · 1976 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Newark, N.J. : Sam Moskowitz, 1976. 0. Limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the author. This is a mimeographed and stapled magazine (last leaf loose). 11.0" x 8.5". pp.20. Illustrated white paper front cover with a design by "Gropper" (soiled and creased). No rear cover. A...

Plays, Acting and Music. (signed).

SYMONS, ARTHUR. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Duckworth and Co, 1903. 1st edition. Essays. Pp.196, photo portrait frontispiece (Eleonora Duse) + 9 further black & white plates, signed by Arthur Symons to front free endpaper, bookplate of Disabled Officers Residential Club to inside front board, slight toning to pa...

An Heir For The Earl.

DRYSDALE, MARGARET. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Robert Hale, 1983. 0709009313. 1st edition. Historical fiction about the Earl of Leicester, his mistress - the widowed Countess of Sheffield, An old live now widowed - Lettice, Countess of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth I. Pp.188, incribed by the author "For Anita and John...

The Day Of Recompense By Silas K. Hocking With Original Illustrations By A. Twidle .

HOCKING, SILAS K. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Frederick Warne And Co. 1899 . 0. Signed First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 8.0" x 5.5" x 1.25". pp.2/pp.357/[4pp. - Adverts]. Bright red cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to both the front board and spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine dulle...

The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age.

DICKSON CARR, JOHN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1983. 0385187149. 1st edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas G. Greene. "Nine never-before-published radio plays by the late John Dickson Carr..Here, all the hallmarks of Carr's classic detective novel...

New Legends . Poems By Hervey Allen .

ALLEN, HERVEY [ WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN 1889-1949] / PRIESTLEY, J. B. (SIGNED) . · 1929 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, On Murray Hill, MCMXXIX [ 1929 ] . 0. Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm [7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75"]. pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards, edges lightly rubbed, with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles...

Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time.

WALDRON, MARY. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 0521651301. 1st edition. Explores the nature of Jane Austen's "confrontations with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction". Pp.x/194, signed by the author to front free endp...

Poems in Pamphlet 1952. III. Drift. Poems and Sonnets.

BULL, A.J. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. 1st edition. Poems in Pamphlet was a monthly publication with each devoted to the work of a different poet. Pp.88, initialled dedication "For John Atkins, with sincerest good wishes, AJB" to title page, a couple of marginal notations...

King and Rebel, A Historical Drama... / Meted Out. An Original Modern Drama.... by Dr Vellère.

VELLERE, EDOUARD RAPHAEL WELLER. · 1873 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Samuel French, 89, Strand, [Printed by Thomas Scott, 1 Warwick Court, Holborn], 1873 . 0. Scarce edition of two plays, signed by the author. pp.72/42. Original maroon buckram with gilt titles to the front board: "King & Rebel. - Meted Out." Maroon leather spine careful...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Solitude of Thomas Cave.

HARDING, GEORGINA. · 2007 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Signed Uncorrected Proof copy. "Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the nature of mankind and our impact on the environment. Thomas Cave is a whaler on Arctic expeditions collect...

Pages of Page's.

PAGE, CANON CLIFF. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Tatura(Australia: Canon Cliff Page, 1983. 0959194002. 1st edition. "In some of the verses there is deep Christian understanding - in a form that brings spiritual truths direct to the heart of the reader. There is in these verses a simplicity that reflects their background in c...

Poems.

TABER, OLIVIA BETTY. · 2013 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Lavenham: Privately printed, 2013. One of 50 copies printed for private circulation for family and friends, with wood engravings by Yvonne Skargon. Pp.48, wood engravings of flora and fauna throughout, inscribed by the author "To Douglas & Margaret with love from Betty May 2nd...

Men of Destiny. or The Moment of No Return.

KING-HALL, STEPHEN. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: K-H Services Ltd, 1960. 1st edition. "A sudden crisis over West Berlin triggered off by the East German Communists. With Russian foreknowledge and support? The West took this for granted; they were wrong..We observe the frantic efforts of the men of "the Establishments...