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The Lady Investigates. Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction.

CRAIG, PATRICIA & CADOGAN, MARY. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1981. 0575028858. 1st edition. "An absorbing look at the changing status of women in the detective story and the spy thriller..As they say, the idea of a woman detective is 'bound to appear progressive', even if she's only an elderly busybody and p...

Oriental Humour.

BLYTH, R.H. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£78.00 (€93.51 | $103.07 | ¥16,460)

Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1968. Fourth printing. "This book will hardly give the reader an accurate idea of the national character or way of thinking of the present-day CChinese, Koreans, and Japanese. The book intends to do something quite different and far more important, ...

Some Early Impressions.

STEPHEN, LESLIE. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Hogarth Press, 1924. 1st edition. The following reminiscences were written in 1903 and were published in the National Review at the end of that year. Pp.194/4(publisher's catalogue), page from The Literary Guide and Nationalist Review (September 1, 1908)"Some Unpublish...

I Heard The Owl Call My Name.

CRAVEN, MARGARET. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Basingstoke: Picador, 1976. 0330247654. "Mark Brian, a young Anglican priest who has not long to live, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in the wilds of British Columbia. While sharing the hunting and fishing, the festivals and funerals, the joys and sorrows of a once ...

A Miracle of Love. (signed).

CORKERY, SIMON. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Leap, Co.Cork: The Macabea Press, 1997. 0953064204. 1st edition. "Christina is a child miraculously saved after abortion by the merciful intervention of a trainee nurse. Adopted by loving parents, Christina lives life to the full unaware of the drama unfolding itself regarding...

Beowulf and Epic Tradition.

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM WITHERLE. · 1930 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. 2nd impression. "Fuller and more authoritative than the surveys in general works, less technical and controversial than the specialized monographs, the volume presents an excellent analysis 'to those who wish to gain a sounder knowled...

The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773.

REDDICK, ALLEN. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 0521361605. 1st edition. "Reddick details the conception, composition, and writing of the Dictionary between the years 1746 and 1755, as well as the great revision of 1771-73. In the process, Reddick argues that the Dictionary does ...

The Historical Method of Herodotus.

LATEINER, DONALD. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. 0802057934. 1st edition. "An innovative writer in an innovative century, Herodotus made sense of a congeries of myth, poetry, monuments, and oral narratives suffused with parochial and ethnic prejudices. Now for the first time these ...

The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq; In Verse And Prose. Published By Mr. Fenton.

WALLER, EDMUND (1606-1687) . · 1744 · Chilton Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, M DCC XLIV. [1744] . 0. A very good half leather binding by "Blackwell". 12mo. 6.75" x 4.0" x 1.25". [16pp.]/pp.295/[4pp.]pp.4 - 168 . Polished brown morocco spine and corners over marbled boards. Spine with 5 r...

The Problem of Order. Elizabethan Political Commonplaces and an Example of Shakespeare's Art.

TALBERT, ERNEST WILLIAM. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Durham N.C: Chapel Hill / The University of North Carolina Press, 1962. 1st edition. "Somewhat less familiar to students of Elizabethan drama and particularly Shakespeare's history plays are certain sixteenth-century commonplaces concerning the nature of states, including Engl...

Books and Habits. From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn.

HEARN, LAFCADIO / ERSKINE, JOHN. (EDITOR). · 1922 · Chilton Books

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London: William Heinemann, 1922. `Selected and edited with an introduction by John Erskine. "These lectures were delivered to Japanese students, and Hearn's purpose was not only to impart the information about Western literature usually to be found in our histories and text-bo...

Alexander Tomlyn. A Tale of Old Cambridge.

WILBY, NOEL MACDONALD. · 1933 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, 1933. 1st edition. Historical fiction. "The history of Alexander Tomlyn, a ward of Sir Thomas More, is traced in vivid colours from his schooldays to the time of his ordination to the Priesthood." Pp.x/278, toning to endpapers, minor spott...

Rethinking English: Essays in Literature, Language, History.

JOSHI, SVATI. (EDITOR). · 1994 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. 0195635639. Oxford India Paperbacks series. "This collection of essays by academics, most of whom teach English in Indian universities, explores the 'problem' of English studies in India. Diverse in approach, the essays emphasize the need ...

A House to Let.

MOLESWORTH, MRS. · 1889 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: SPCK, nd (c.1889). 22.5cms x 18cms. Pp.96, charming colour and sepia illustrations by W.J.Morgan, owner's name "Marie Ellen Seymour Lucas" to top of title page, slight toning to floral endpapers. Brown illustrated cloth, gilt title to front, black title to spine, wear ...

The Captive Free Men: The Plowman's Tale.

PRENTICE, ROB. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oswestry: Sherbourne Publications, 1994. 1872547869. 1st edition. "The Captive Free Men is the story of a fictional family. The place in which it is set is one that the author has lived and worked in for the last 35 years. The History and Geography is authentic but has been ad...

Lettres D'Angleterre, Etudes Humoristiques. Par Jules-marie Loewe. Dessins de Bourgerie

LOEWE, JULES MARIE. · 1851 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Paris: Georges Kugelmann, Editeur, Rue Feydeau, 7, 1851 . 0. First edition in modern cloth binding, preserving the original covers. 8vo. 24.5cm x 15.9cm x 1.7cm. pp.175/[1p. - Table Des Maitieres]/[4pp. - Original covers]. Green cloth binding with black leather title label to ...

Poems By Thomas Gray .

GRAY, THOMAS 1716-1771. · 1907 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Eton College : Spottiswoode & Co, Ltd, 1907 . 0. A very good half leather binding with the Eton College Crest. 4to. pp.14/pp.164/[2pp. - Colophon to last leaf: "Eton College: printed by Spottiswoode And Co, Ltd. At The Savile Press"] . + four full-page engravings (inluding fro...

Collected Poems.

STEPHENS, JAMES (1880 - 1950) . · 1926 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London: Macmillan And Co, Limited, St. Martin's Street, 1926 . 0. Signed limited large paper edition. A very good quarter vellum binding. 9.0" x 7.02 x1.0". pp.22/pp.260 . Vellum spine over blue cloth boards. Smooth spine with gilt titles. Endpapers lightly toned. Previous own...

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI 1313-1375 / [ RIGG, J.M. (JAMES MACMULLEN RIGG 1855-1926.- TRANSLATOR) ] / [SYMMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON ] . · 1922 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Privately Printed [By the Navarre Society Ltd], 1922 . 0. Publication date etc. from British Library. A very good half leather binding. 2 Volumes bound in 1. 8vo. 8.00" x 5.75" x 1.75". pp.62/[2pp.]/pp.332/pp.404 . This edition has no coloured illustrations. Polished m...

Tudor Facsimile Texts - The Pardoner and the frere, the curate and neybour Pratte [By John Heywood]. Date of the Earliest Known Edition, 1533 [Pepys Collection, Magdalene College, Cambridge]. Reproduced in Facsimile, 1909 .

HEYWOOD, JOHN (1497-1580) / FARMER, JOHN S. (EDITOR) . · 1909 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London ; Edinburgh : Issued for subscribers by T. C. & E. C. Jack 1909 0. A very good original binding. 11.5" x 8.75" x 0.25". pp.6/[16pp.]. With facsimile of original title page: "A mery play betwene the pardoner and the frere / the curate and neybour Pratte." [Colophon: Impr...