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The Price of Redemption.

DOBSON, GAVIN R. · 2011 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Librario Publishing Limited, 2011. 9781906775285. "When the giant American financial group CSF appoints Mark Telford's Appletree Capital Management in London to handle a world-wide fund, the champagne flows in expectation of the fees this will generate..Euphoria is short-lived...

Michael Collins and the Invisible Army.

RYAN, DESMOND. · 1977 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Republic of Ireland: Anvil Books, 1977. 0900068000. Reprint. Originally published in 1932 as 'The Invisible Army'. "With the exception of the Nineteen-Sixteen leaders, Michael Collins and a few others, obvious to all who know the period, 1916-1924, the characters in this book ...

The Christmas Tree Book.

BAKER, JOANNE. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Brenda Weatherall, 2001. Poems by Joanne Baker with illustrations by Julia Weatherall. Pp.23, poems with 10 full colour illustrations incorporating Christmas trees to facing pages, signed by the author and illustrator to title page. Paperback. VG.

Some 'Opes of Brody Street, E.1.

FARRAN, DORIS. · 2003 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Bexleyheath: S.M.D.Print Centre, 2003. 0953492532. A moving yet humorous story of the Hope family, in the screw and scrape times of Peace, and how it was in War, living alongside the East End Docks in the Blitz. Pp.413, signed by author to title page. Paperback. VG.

An Alien at St Wilfred's.

PLASS, ADRIAN. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London:Fount,1992. 0006276199. "This is the story of Nine, the small alien, who comes to Earth and learns to speak in Prayer Book English.." Pp.212,occasional illustrations by Paul Judson. Pbk, crease to cover. G+.

The Search After Hapiness. (illustrated by Carolyn Dinan).

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Harvill Press, 1969. A Tale by Charlotte Bronte written at the age of 13. "Just what was in the child's mind when she wrote this rather frightening tale? Was it simply an exercise in descriptive writing, or perhaps a simple story written to prove the dictum that happin...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper. (Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe).

ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL. · 1890 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: E.Moxon, Son & Co, nd.(c.1890s). Edited, with a critical memoir. Moxon's Popular Poets. All edges gilt. Pp.xxiv/600/16(publisher's catalogue), occasional illustrations by Thomas Seccombe, small binder's label (Leighton son and Hodge) to inside rear board. Blue decorate...

Love Poems. Nineteen Poems of Love, Lust and Spirit. (New Departures No.9).

HOROVITZ, MICHAEL. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: New Departures, 1971. 1st edition. Anthology of poems previously published in various books and magazines. Landscape format. 17cms x 19cms. Pp.40, Blue cloth, dustwrapper has edgewear. G+/G+.

Tatterdemalion.

TURNER, ANITA MARY. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Braintree: Privately published, 1990. Limited edition. Posthumously published children's story about Tattermalion ("Tatters") the scarecrow. Pp.70, occasional illustrations by the author. Green rexine boards, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

Institutions: Or, Advice To His Grandson. In Three Parts. By William Higford, Esq.

HIGFORD, William (1581?–1657) . · 1818 · CHILTON BOOKS

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

[London, Re-printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1818] . 0 Scarce privately printed book in a very good contemporary leather binding. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.0" x 0.5". pp.15/pp.104 . Tan full calf binding. Edges and hinges carefully strengthened. Spine with 5 rais...

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.

Aunt Louisa's Golden Gift. comprising Little Dame Crump, Hush-A-Bye Baby, Childhood's Delight, Tottie's Nursery Rhymes. With Twenty-Four Pages Of Illustrations Printed In Colours And Gold, From Original Designs By M. Tilsley .

AUNT LOUISA. [ PSEUDONYM: VALENTINE, LAURA BELINDA CHARLOTTE (NEE JEWRY) 1814-1899 ] . · 1875 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London. Frederick Warne & Co, Bedford Street, Strand, [ no date - c.1875 ] . 0. A very good Victorian binding. Gilt cover illustration and titles. Some wear, hinges carefully strengthened at some time in the past. Previous owner's name to top of title-page. 4to, [6pp.]/pp.5/[2...

Virginia Woolfe. (Critical Issues).

PEACH, LINDEN. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. 0333687310. "Peach argues that Woolfe was a more sophisticated political thinker than has been generally recognised, interested in the complex relationship between history, politics and language. In particular Peach shows how Woolfe's fiction expl...

East Anglia in Verse and Prose.

WILSON, ANGUS. (EDITOR). · 1982 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Secker & Warburg,1982. 0436576074. 1st edition. "A book of contrasts; between aristocratic households and rural villages; between the religious heart of the land and the bawdy irreverence of those who work it. Always present is a sense of history, of a world still touc...

The Critic; or, a tragedy rehearsed; a dramatic piece, in three acts. As performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Printed under the authority of the managers, from the prompt books.

SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY (1751-1816) . · 1823 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd, Baron Grant's Close, High Street, [no date c. 1823 ] . 0. 12mo, 5.25" x 3.50" (13.5cm x 9.0cm), papered boards with modern paper label and spine. Carefully re-sewn. 46pp. Engraved frontispiece by Corbould, lightly stained. Title-page crea...

Hobgoblins Also Dream.

ANDERSON, ALEX. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Liverpool: The Old Police Station, 1982. "Alex Anderon is a native of Liverpool but his poetry is decidedly not what has come to be known as Liverpool poetry. On the contrary, he is a symbolist in the mainstream of Modernist tradition. His poetry creates a subtle myth of moder...

The Bengali Book of English Verse.

DUNN, THEODORE DOUGLAS. (EDITOR). · 1918 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co, 1918. 1st edition. "The verse collected in this volume represents about one hundred years of poetical effort; and has its origin in England's introduction into India of western education." (Foreword by Sir Rabindranath Tagore). 23cms x14.5cms. P...

On Directing Shakespeare.

BERRY, RALPH. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. 0241126894. 1st edition. Interviews with contemporary directors, including: Jonathan Miller, Konrad Swinarski, Trevor Nunn, Michael Kahn, Robin Phillips, Georgio Strehler, Peter Brook, Adrian Noble, Bill Alexander, Declan Donnellan, Sir Peter Hal...

The Original Poems and Others. (Illustrated by F.D.Bedford).

TAYLOR, ANN AND JANE AND O'KEEFFE, ADELAIDE. · 1905 · Chilton Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London: Wells, Gardner and Darton & Co, nd (c.1905). Edited by E.V.Lucas. Top edge gilt. Pp.xl/411, *colour illustrated title page and frontispiece by F.D.Bedford + many further black & white illustrations throughout, small bookseller's label (A.Brooker, Hastings) to inside fr...

Antigrav.

STRICK, PHILIP. (EDITOR). · 1975 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Hutchinson, 1975. 0091224500. 1st edition. Anthology of Science Fiction short stories by Stanislaw Lem, Theodore Sturgeon, James Blish, Brian W.Aldiss, John Sladek, Harry Harrison, Barry N.Malzberg, Ron Goulart, and others. Pp.184. Black cloth, dustwrapper has slight s...