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The Adventures Of Telemachus, The Son Of Ulysses ... : complete in twenty four books. Originally written in French ... / by Francis Salignac de La Mothe Fenelon ... ; now newly translated ... by William Henry Melmoth

FENELON, FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE- 1651-1715. · 1785 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London : Printed only for Alex Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16, Pater-noster Row, [ca. 1785] 0. A very good later half calf binding. 4to. 26.8cm x 21.3cm x 3.6cm. pp.iv/pp.5 - 327/[17pp. - Index and subscribers' list]. Illustrated with 24 engraved plates by W. Grainger, C. Gr...

Poems of To-Day: an Anthology.

VARIOUS. · 1918 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London : Published for the English Association by Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918 . 0. First issued in 1915 and reprinted. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 7.25" x 5.0" x 0.5" pp.16/pp.174. Green calf spine and corners over green cloth covered boards. Spine a little dulled with...

The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.

SIDNEI, SIR PHILIPPE. [SIDNEY]. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1970. Facsimile reproduction of the 1891 photographic facsimile of the original 1590 edition. "Sidney gave epic stature to the conventional pastoral romance, in which the central subject is love, by heightening the style, addingindi...

Selections from Gavin Douglas.

COLDWELL, DAVID F.C. (INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND GLOSSARY). · 1964 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. 1st edition. Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series. "Passages to exemplify the various forms and styles of the poet in his version of the Aeneid and in the Prologues he attached to each book." Pp.xxx/161, occasional light pencil marginal notations....

Letters to Richard Heber, Esq. Containing Critical Remarks on the Series of Novels Beginning with "Waverley" and an Attempt to Ascertain Their Author.

ANONYMOUS (JOHN L. ADOLPHUS) · 1821 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: printed For Rodwell And Martin, Bond-Street, 1821 . 0. First edition. 8vo. 210mm x 135mm x 20mm. pp. 255/[1p. - Colophon London: Printed By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.] . Contemporary quarter green cloth over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Hinges cracked, bu...

Poems on several subjects : written by Stephen Duck, Lately a poor Thresher in a Barn in the County of Wilts, at the Wages of Four Shillings and Six Pence per Week: which were publickly read by The Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield...

DUCK, STEPHEN 1705-1756. · 1730 · Chilton Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster M.DCC.XXX. [1730] . Price Six-Pence 0. 3 titles bound together: The Description Of Bath. A Poem; A Character Of John Sheffield, 1729; Poems on Several Su...

Shenstone's Miscellany 1759-1763.

GORDON, IAN A. (EDITOR). · 1952 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. "The Miscellany contains between ninety and a hundred poems transcribed at various dates between the early months of 1759 and the month of Shenstone's death, February 1763." Pp.xx/164 Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

The Linguistics of Light. (Signed).

DART, LISA. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Cambridge: Salt, 2009. 9781844714452. 1st edition. "Lisa Dart's debut collection 'The Linguistics of Light' journeys from the north Norfolk coast of England across a vast emotional landscape to Greece and beyond. America provides the imaginative and physical locations for some...

Our Old Nursery Rhymes.

WILLEBEEK LE MAIR, H. (ILLUSTRATIONS)./ MOFFAT, ALFRED (ORIGINAL TUNES HARMONIZED BY). · 1911 · Chilton Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London: Augener Ltd / Philadelphia: McKay, David, 1911. Landscape format. 23cms x 29cms. Pp.69, 32 full page illustrated plates with music and rhymes to facing pages,some spotting to endpapers. Blue/grey cloth, oval colour onlay illustration to front board, gilt title to front...

The Royal Road.

DEBENHAM, MARY H. · 1909 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: National Society's Depository, 1909. By the author of "Rue" and "The Peace of the Church". Pp.221, four full-page illustrations by Isabel Watkin, spotting to endpapers and preliminaries but mainly affecting closed page edges. Green cloth illustrated in black to front a...

The Other Vikings.

WEST, TESSA. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Glemsford: Fox Books, 2009. 9780954362737. 1st edition. Poems written from the female Viking point of view. 21cms 21cms. Unpaginated. Inscribed by the author + a gift message to title page. Paperback, minor bumps to top corners. G+.

Dublin Translations into Greek and Latin Verse.

TYRRELL, ROBERT YELVERTON. (EDITOR). · 1890 · Chilton Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Dublin: Hodges Figgis and Co, 1890. Translations by Dublin scholars of the literary works of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, and many others, into Greek and Latin. Pp.xx/519, toning to pages which are dusty to edges, cracking to internal hinges but holding. Green...

Puffing Billy.

MICHMAN, JUSTIN (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1980 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Bridlington: Peter Haddock Ltd, nd. (c.1980s?). 0710503687. A Big Time Wonder Book "Read-With-Me" series. 21cms x 16cms. Unpaginated. Children's story about Puffing Billy, the Toytown Train, taking the toys on an adventurous ride. Illustrated throughout in colour by Justin Mic...

Tingle Tangle. A Collection of Light Verse.

ROSS, CASTLETON. · 1946 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Bombay: Vakil & Sons, 1946. Printed "For private circulation only".Some of the verses previously appeared in "The Times of India". 16cms x 12cms. Pp.82. Brown card covers, slightly rubbed. G+.

Ostrich Creek. Tom and Other Survivors.

BENCE-JONES, GILLIAN. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Hyde: New Hope International, 1999. 0903610221. 1st edition. "Like Betjeman, Bence-Jones is inspired by a sence of place..Her voice is the voice of no-nonsense Suffolk: clear, lyrical and straight to the point." Pp.60. Paperback. VG.

Bacton Where the Orwell Rises.

BENCE-JONES, GILLIAN. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Lewes: The Book Guild Ltd, 1989. 0863322689. "Gillian Bence-Jones' poetry is simple and direct..Though modern in form with its free verse, it is timeless, even refreshingly old fashioned, in content." Pp.88, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper. Blue boards, dustwrap...

Freston Tower.

BENCE-JONES, GILLIAN. · 2005 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Stamford: K.T.Publications, 2005. 0907759246. Kite Modern Poetry Series. Collection of poetry. Pp.60. Paperback. VG.

Paul & Virginie.

HEIN, RAYMOND (TRANSLATOR) / BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Mauritius: Editions de l'Ocean Indien, 1985. The first edition of the book, published in 1977, was a notable contribution to Mauritian literature in English, and has been so successful that this new edition has become necessary." Pp.159, portrait frontispiece + 4 further black...

The Face in the Sky.

INNES, RICHARD. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2009. 9781438937885. "It is autumn of the year 1389, and King Richard is on the throne of England, a land still haunted by the memory of the Black Death. And at Caerafon, on the Welsh borders, vampires break through from another world and steal the ba...

The Accidental Shepherd.

DOBSON, GAVIN R. · 2012 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Librario Publishing Limited, 2012. 9781909238008. "Each of the fifteen stories in The Accidental Shepherd should be read on its own merits as a stand-alone vignette in the life of Geordie Kinloch. Some were inspired by experiences and observations of the author and his friends...