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The Victories of Love.

PATMORE, COVENTRY. · 1878 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: George Bell and Sons, 1878. Fourth edition. 18cms x 13cms x 2cms. Pp.256, toning to endpapers. Boards faded and browned, original paper label to spine rubbed with losses, old paper number label to rear board. G-.

Affirmations.

ELLIS, HAVELOCK. · 1915 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1915. Second edition with a new preface. Contents: 1.Nietzsche; 2.Casanova; 3.Zola; 4.Huysmans; 5.St Francis and Others. Pp.xiv/252, owner's name to front free endpaper, a little slight spotting mainly to preliminary pages. Black cloth, gilt ...

Essays in European and Oriental Literature.

HEARN, LAFCADIO./ MORDELL, ALBERT (EDITOR). · 1923 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: William Heinemann, 1923. "The editorials that appear in this volume were written between 1883 and 1887, that is, when Hearn was between thirty-three and thirty-seven years old. Their language is lucid and he had to forego some of his pet notions of elaborate workmanshi...

The Poems of Li Ho. 791-817.

FRODSHAM, J.D. (TRANSLATOR). · 1970 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. 1st edition. The Oxford Library of East Asian Literatures series. "Though he was highly esteemed during his day, later afes found the work of the 'demon-poet' so strange and difficult that he fell into an oblivion from which recent criticism has ...

A Little Book of Knowledge. (The Little Folks Library).

BILLINGHURST, PERCY. (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1900 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

The Little Folks Library, nd. (c.1900). Children's book of folklore/proverbs about the seasons, weather, etc. 17cms x 10.5cms x 1cm. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout by Percy Billinghurst in blue and in green, green patterned endpapers. Green cloth with white and black illu...

A Guide to the Books of William Blake for Innocent and Experienced Readers.

SUMMERFIELD, HENRY. · 1998 · Chilton Books

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Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1998. 0861404084. With Notes on Interpretive Criticism 1910 to 1984. Part one consists of twelve chapters primarily intended to lead those readers having little or no familiarity with Blake's more difficult poetry through all his books. In the sec...

Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature.

BONDANELLA, PETER AND BONDANELLA, JULIA CONWAY. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Cassell, 1996. 0304704644. "Includes some 400 entries on major and minor Italian writers from the twelfth century to the present day [sic]; on Italian metrics and poetic forms or genres; and on literary or critical schools, periods, problems and movements. In addition,...

Oedipus On The Sphinx Of The Nineteenth Century: Or, Politico-Polemical Riddles Interpreted By An Old Clothes Philosopher .

BRADE, WILLIAM . · 1862 · Chilton Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London: George Manwaring, 8, King William Street, West Strand, MDCCCLXII. [1862] . 0. Scarce! A very good original half leather binding. 8vo. pp.20/pp.363. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.0". Brown calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Edges and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine ...

Typee: Or, A Narrative Of A Four Months' Residence Among The Natives Of The Marquesas Islands; Or, A Peep At Polynesian Life.

MELVILLE, HERMAN . · 1847 · Chilton Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1847. 2nd English edition, 4th issue. 8vo. 17cm x 12cm x 2.3cm. Ex library. pp.xvi/301, text clean and bright, no map after preliminaries. p.19 first line: ".. Pomare ..". "The Story of Toby," a Sequel to "Typee" to pages 289-301. Library...

White Ladies.

BRETT YOUNG, FRANCIS. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. 1st edition. English novel about three generations of a midlands industrial family and their country house, the White Ladies. Pp.693, signed by Francis Brett Young to title page, owner's details to inside front board, occasional light spott...

Prancing Nigger.

FIRBANK, RONALD. · 1931 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Duckworth, 1931. Originally published in England under the title "Sorrow in Sunlight", it was published in America under the title "Prancing Nigger" which was subsequently used as the title for this first New Readers Library edition. It is set in a Caribbean republic (...

Deed of Gift.

DALIBARD, JILL DAWSON. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn, 1995. 0919897460. 1st edition. "The first book of poems by Montreal poet Jill Dawson Dalibard..The poet was born in the village of Long Melford, [Suffolk] England, and emigrated to Canada in 1958." Pp.92. Paperback. VG.

Wyndham Towers.

ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. · 1890 · Chilton Books

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Boston: Houghton, Miflin and Company, 1890. Originally written as a sketch, this poem was recast using the influence of poets Aldrich had been studying, chiefly the dramatists of the Elizabethan era, although the story is set at a later date. Pp.80, illustrated sepia bookplate...

A ZBC of Ezra Pound.

BROOK-ROSE, CHRISTINE. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 0571091350. 1st edition. Pp.x/297, spotting to top closed page edges not encroaching onto page margins. Yellow cloth,silver title to spine, edges slightly rubbed. Scarce. G+.

Miss Bendix. (Illustrated by H.Weissenborn).

ROYDE SMITH, NAOMI. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Hollis and Carter, 1947. 1st in this partly re-written edition. "The tale of a serious-minded gentlewoman's struggle to reconcile her newly acquired knowledge of scientific truth with the religious teaching which she had found adequate until the death of her mother.." ...

My Name is Legion. (Signed).

WILSON, A.N. · 2004 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Hutchinson, 2004. 0091795354. 1st edition. "A savge satire on the morality of contemporary Britain - its Press, its politics, its Church, its rich, its underclass. His London is a bleak, if occasionally hilarious, place: murderous, randy, money-obsessed and haunted by ...

For the Term of his Natural Life. (Australian Classics series).

CLARKE, MARCUS. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Angus & Robertson, 1979. 0207140731. Unabridged edition with introduction by Hilary Lofting and 45 full-page illustrations. "The grim and tragic story of life in an Australian penal colony..Clarke had studied the records of "the System" and nothing he describes was too...

Watership Down.

ADAMS, RICHARD. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London: Allen Lane / Kestrel Books, 1982. 0713915137. First in this edition, published ten years after the original. Pp.478, owner's name to inside front board, a few spots to closed page edges not affecting pages internally. Dark green cloth. Dustwrapper (illustrated by Pauli...

Tales, Songs And Sonnets, By J. W. Dalby.

DALBY, JOHN WATSON (1799-1880) . - SUDBURY PRINTING . · 1865 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Longman, Green, Longman And Green, Paternoster Row, [no date c. 1865] . 0. A very good original Victorian cloth binding. 8vo. 6.75" x 4.25" x 0.75". pp.8/pp.184. Green cloth over bevelled boards, with a few small blemishes. Edges rubbed and bumped. original black endpa...

Torquato Tasso. A Study of the Poet and his Contribution to English Literature.

BRAND, C.P. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. 1st edition. "Tasso is a complex and difficult writer. He was a weak man, who was easily affected by external pressures, and his greatness lay almost entirely in his writings. Dr Brand suggests how we should reconcile his poetic gen...