Letteratura

Arthur Miller. (Contemporary Playwrights Series).

HAYMAN, RONALD. · 1973 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Heinemann, 1973. 0435184013. Second edition. "No modern dramatist has examined the public and private issues of his day more insistently than Arthur Miller. " Pp.xii/91, 4 black & white photo illustrations,newspaper cutting of John Heilpern interview with Arthur Miller...

The Man Who Never Died. A Play About Joe Hill.

STAVIS, BARRIE. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

South Brunswick and New York: A.S.Barnes and Company, 1972. 0498075389. Revised edition with introduction by Pete Seeger. "Joe Hill was shot by the State of Utah on November 19, 1915. He had been found guilty on the charge of murder. Yet no connection was ever made between Joe...

Castle of Eagles.

HEAVEN, CONSTANCE. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Heinemann, 1974. 0434326224. 1st edition. A romantic novel set in nineteenth century Austria. Pp.193. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

The Age of Innocence.

WHARTON, EDITH. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: John Lehmann, 1953. Originally published in 1923, this edition first published 1953. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1921, with this book. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. Pp.287. Blue clot...

Monkey. (Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley).

WU CH'ENG-EN. · 1943 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1943. 3rd impression. "Monkey is unique in its combination of beauty with absurdity, of profundity with nonsense.Folk-lore, allegory, religion, history, anti-bureaucratic satire and pure poetry - such are the singularly diverse elements out of...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

STERNE, LAURENCE./ AUSTEN, JOHN (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1928 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1928. First in this edition. Large format. 26cms x 17cms x 4cms. Pp.xxiv/557, frontispiec + 16 further full-page illustrations by John Austen, illustrated endpapers, spotting to closed fore-edge and a few light spots to final pages. Black cl...

A Man Named Seraphin.

RAY, RENE. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952. 1st edition. By the author of Emma Conquest. "Ben Seraphin was hard man, a man who liked to impose his will upon others. He prevented his sister Amy from marrying in her youtjh, but turned her out of his house years later when he himself marr...

Love is Eternal. A Novel of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln.

STONE, IRVING. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Collins, 1955. 1st edition. Biographical novel telling the story of the marriage of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. Pp.575, owner's name to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers and spotting to closed page edges. Green cloth, dustwrapper has minor spotting and chippe...

Marjorie Morningstar.

WOUK, HERMAN. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 1st edition. "Marjorie (nee Morgenstern) is Everygirl. Domiciled in New York, she has her counterpart in every city - the girl who cherishes a secret dream. In Marjorie's case the dream matured into an ambition: she belieed that it was her destiny ...

The Big Chapel.

KILROY, THOMAS. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1971. 1st edition. The Big Chapel was shortlisted for the 1971 Booker Prize and winner of 1971 the Guardian Fiction Prize. It is a novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland. An an...

Pictures from Dickens with Readings.

NISTER, ERNEST. · 1896 · Chilton Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

London: Ernest Nister, nd. (c.1896). With illustrations by H.M Paget, Fred Barnard, Harold Copping, John H. Bacon, Victor Venner, and G.H. Thompson. 23cms x 19cmsx 1cm. All edges red. Pp.96, colour frontispiece + 11 further chromolithographs and many sepia line-drawing illustr...

Footlights and Spotlights. Recollections of My Life on the Stage.

SKINNER, OTIS. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1924. 1st edition. Signed limited edition of 500 copies. Otis Skinner(1858-1942 was an American actor who played hundreds of roles in all parts of the world in a career extending over more than 60 years. Pp.367, signed (but not numbered) to ...

An Innocent Millionaire. (signed).

VIZINCZEY, STEPHEN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983 0771087608. First Canadian edition. "Anyone can enjoy An Innocent Millionaire as an exotic-location thriller. The bonus is that it is also a fable of love, greed and modern society, peopled by rounded, cussed characters.."(ShaunUsher, D.Ma...

The Cowslip; or More Cautionary Stories in Verse.

[TURNER, ELIZABETH]. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1899. New edition. By the Author of that Much-Admired Little Work Entitled The Daisy. "30 short stories, in verse, providing pearls of parental wisdom and warning the young reader to be obedient, studious, abstemious, free from envy and well behav...

Classical Persian Literature.

ARBERRY, A.J. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Richmond: Curzon Press Ltd, 1994. 0700702768. Reprint of the 1958 edition. This is the best single volume account of the first rebirth of a national literature in the national language, tracing the course of its development and full maturity from the beginning of the ninth cen...

The Children of the Rocks. A Story of Tours. (Signed).

MADDEN, JOHN J. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Kansas City: Burton Publishing Company, 1944). 1st edition. "The Children of the Rocks is more of a study than a story. It deals with a dangerous period in history. Aperiod when civilization rested upon the issue of a single battle in the last days of September, A.D.732. In th...

Slaughter in the Sun. (A Sexton Blake Novel).

CHRISTIE, STEPHEN. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Howard Baker, 1969. 1st edition. "Murder came violently to exotic, tropic Ceylon when beautiful Angela Floyd was battered to death on a beach. It looked like the work of a maniac. But there was method in the murderer's madness Sexton Blake swiftly discovered - though n...

Case of the Siamese Cat. (Schoolgirls Own Library No.403).

MCNEILLY, WILFRED. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Fleetway Publications, 1963. Published 4th July 1963. A Jancy Girl Sleuth Story. Jancy Martin, 'Private Detective' - her father is a real live 'Private Eye' and he calls her his secretarial assistant. 18.5cms x 11.5cms. Pp.64, toning to pages, minor creasing to corner ...

The Poetical Keepsake.

VARIOUS. · 1846 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: William M'Kenny, 1846. Consisting of the Choicest Gems of Poetry, Carefully Selected from the Works of the Most Popular English, American, and Other Writers. 12.5cms x 8cms. All edges gilt. Pp.224, gift message to front free endpaper. Blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt dec...

Arrows of the Chace. (Two Volumes in One).

RUSKIN, JOHN. · 1880 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: Merrill and Baker, nd. (c.1880). Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published Chiefly in the Daily Newspapers 18401860, and now Edited by An Oxford Pupil. With Preface by the Author. Vol.I: Letters on Art and Science. Vol.II:Letters on Politics, Economy, and Mis...