Letteratura

Singin' in the Rain. Story and Screenplay.

GREEN, ADOLPH AND COMDEN, BETTY. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Lorrimer Publishing, 1986. 085647116X. Classic Film Scripts series. Pp.xiv/65, 32 black & white photos. Paperback. VG.

Dorando, A Spanish Tale.

BOSWELL, JAMES (1740-1795) . · 1930 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Published by Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930 . 0. Scarce limited edition: "Six hundred copies only have been printed of this edition. This is no. 328." A very good book with the original dustwrapper. 7.5" x 5.25" x 0.25". pp.44 . Blue patterned dustwrapper. Cover title: '...

Coming Into Eighty. New Poems by May Sarton .

SARTON, MAY (1912-1995) . · 1992 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1992 . 0. Signed limited edition. Colophon (on last leaf) : "This edition, designed by John Kristensen, was printed letterpress from Fairfield type on Mohawk Superfine paper and bound at Firefly press, Somerville, Massachuse...

Charles Fort: A Radical Corpuscle. By Sam Moskowitz .

MOSKOWITZ, SAM (1920 - 1997 ) . · 1976 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Newark, N.J. : Sam Moskowitz, 1976. 0. Limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the author. This is a mimeographed and stapled magazine (last leaf loose). 11.0" x 8.5". pp.20. Illustrated white paper front cover with a design by "Gropper" (soiled and creased). No rear cover. A...

The Fairy Tale. The Magic Mirror of Imagination.

JONES, STEVEN SWANN. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. 0805709509. 1st edition. Twayne's Studies in Literary Themes and Genres series. "From their prehistoric roots in oral narrative to their contemporary manifestations in books, films, music, and other media, fairy tales have unceasingly appeale...

Albions England. (1612).

WARNER, WILLIAM. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Hildesheim: George Olms Verlag, 1971. Facsimile reprint in the Anglistica & Americana series. Albions England is a long poem in fourteen-syllabled verse, Pp.399, Red cloth, gilt title to front, black label with gilt title to spine. VG.** "William Warner was born in London abou...

A History of English Literature. From Earliest times to 1916.

COMPTON-RICKETT, ARTHUR. · 1958 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons,1958. "An attempt to estimate in human values the development of literary life and thought from Saxon times down to the end of 1916. A chronicle of the literature of each age is preceeded by a pen-picture of its social and political environment.....

The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765. Edited by her Kinsman Alexander Blacker Kerr.

KNOX, CLEONE. [KING-HALL, MAGDALEN]. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

New York: D.Appleton and Company, 1926. 1st US edition Pp.249, errata slip tipped-in to foreword page, gift message to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers. Green cloth spine with patterned paper-covered boards rather rubbed, oritinal paper label to spine darkened. Good. "...

T.E. Hulme. ( with an introduction by Anthony Quinton).

ROBERTS, MICHAEL. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982. "Opens with a biographical sketch and proceeds to a discussion of Hulme's views on humanism, classicism, democracy and poetry, taking account of the thinkers whose work and example helped give shape to Hulme's approach - notably Bergson." ...

When I'm a Man or Little Saint Christopher. (Illustrated by W.H.C.Groome).

WEBER, ALICE. · 1888 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1888. 1st edition. 21cms x 17cms. All edges gilt. Pp.189, frontispiece + 12 further full page illustrations by W.H.C.Groome + many other illustrations within the text, brown floral endpapers. Brown illustrated cloth, front board rubbed...

Some New Letters and Writings of Lafcadio Hearn.

HEARN, LAFCADIO./ ICHIKAWA, SANKI (EDITOR). · 1925 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1925. 1st edition. "Lafcadio Hearn, also called (from 1895) Koizumi Yakumo (1850-1904) writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West." (Encyc.Brit). Pp.xviii/430, occasional light spotting. Black cloth, origina...

Plays, Acting and Music. (signed).

SYMONS, ARTHUR. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Duckworth and Co, 1903. 1st edition. Essays. Pp.196, photo portrait frontispiece (Eleonora Duse) + 9 further black & white plates, signed by Arthur Symons to front free endpaper, bookplate of Disabled Officers Residential Club to inside front board, slight toning to pa...

Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction.

WILLIAMS. IOAN. (EDITOR). · 1968 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. 1st edition. "This collection of Essays and Reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists..The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historic...

An Heir For The Earl.

DRYSDALE, MARGARET. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Robert Hale, 1983. 0709009313. 1st edition. Historical fiction about the Earl of Leicester, his mistress - the widowed Countess of Sheffield, An old live now widowed - Lettice, Countess of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth I. Pp.188, incribed by the author "For Anita and John...

Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him. (1100-1200-1300).

ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. · 1874 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London: Ellis and White, 1874. A Collection of Lyrics, Edited, and Translated in the Original Metres, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Revised and Re-arranged Edition. Contains: Part I.Dante's Vita Nuova,&c. Poets of Dante's Circle. Part II.Poets Chiefly Before Dante. Pp.xxiv/468/3(...

The Physiology of Marriage or Meditations of an Eclectic Philosopher on Happiness and Unhappiness in Marriage

BALZAC, HONORE DE (1799-1850) / MACNAMARA, FRANCIS · 1925 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: The Casanova Society, MCMXXV. [1925] . 0. A very good limited edition (No. 241). 4to. 10.52 x 8.0" x 1.25". [16pp.]/pp.45/[2pp.]/pp.310/[1p.] . Blue-grey papered boards, corners rubbed. Brown cloth spine with blue-grey paper label. Deckled (Rough-cut) page edges. Clean...

The Study of Literature and Religion. An Introduction.

JASPER, DAVID. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. 0333570790. Second edition. "A learned , dense and often allusive book which tries to move the current discussion about the relation between religion and literature on to a new level of seriousness">(John Barton, Theological Book Review). Pp.xx/15...

Shakespeare's Bawdy. A Literary & Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossary.

PARTRIDGE, ERIC. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Routledge, 1947. 1st edition. No 321 of a limited edition of 1000. "An examination of the "Bawdy" in Shakespeare from the literary, psychological and lexicographical standpoints..Comprises chapters on the various aspects of the "Bawdy" - non-sexual, sexual, homosexual,...

Postman's Horn.

BRYANT, ARTHUR. · 1946 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

London: Home & Van Thal, 1946. An Anthology of the Letters of Latter Seventeenth Century England. Revised edition. Letters written in the 17th century together with interspersed comments by Arthur Bryant. Pp.319. Red cloth, sunning to edges, dustwrapper rubbed and soiled to re...

Ezra Pound: Purpose / Form / Meaning.

KORN, MARIANNE. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Middlesex Polytechnic Press, 1983. 0862060087. 1st edition. "The aim of this book is to suggest a formal reading of the Pound text. It explains the sense in which writing, prose and poetry, approached a single activity for Pound; in which his theory illuminates his pra...