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The Noh Drama. Ten Plays from the Japanese Selected and Translated by the Special Noh Committee, Japanese Classics Translation Committee.

NIPPON GAKUJUTSU SHINKOKAI. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960. First in this edition. "Combining the elements of the dance, miming, music, and chants, Noh plays may be described as lyrico-dramatic tone-poems, in which thetext has a function somewhat similar to that of the libretto in a Wa...

Niccolina Niccolini.

[ROBERTS, MARGARET]. · 1897 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Gardner, Darton & Co, nd. (c.1897). By the author of 'Mademoiselle Mori', 'Atelier Du Lys', 'The Secret of Madame De Monlac', etc. Ex convent library. Pp.10, minor spotting mainly affecting preliminary pages and closed page edges,endpapers browned, armorial bookplate o...

Whisky Galore.

MACKENZIE, COMPTON. · 1950 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1950. 6th impression. During the Second World War, the cargo vessel S.S. Cabinet Minister is wrecked off a remote fictional Scottish island group — Great Todday and Little Todday — with fifty thousand cases of whisky aboard. Due to wartime rationing,...

Blood Hunt.

GUNN, NEIL M. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1952. 1st edition. "Retired from the sea, after his fill of adventures and violence and love, old Sandy lives quietly alone in a remote Highland cottage with a barn, a temperamental cow, a few books and a few hundred pounds in the bank. It is the tra...

Jeshua. (He Who Laughed).

LOWRIE, CHARLES. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1947. 1st edition. The discovery of a papyrus unfolds the story of a Roman General in Palestine in the time of Jeshua. Pp.256. Blue cloth, three spots to front board, dustwrapper rubbed and creased with 1cm hole to centre of spine. Good/Good.

Sandra Takes Command.

WHITE, CONSTANCE M. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Hutchinson, 1960. "Sandra didn't just want to be any kind of actress; she didn't see herself as a film star r anything like that. No, acting for Sandra was a serious, dedicated business - the most important thing in her school life. That's why she tried to form a Drama...

Dimitri and the False Tsars. (Translated by Anthea Bell).

BAUMANN, HANS. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972. 0340159243. 1st British edition. Originally published in Germany under the title "Dimitri und die Falschen Zaren". "A true historical mystery, was Dimitri, who succeeded Boris Godunov as Tsar of Russia in 1605, really the son of Ivan the Te...

The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. (Illustrated by C.E.Brock).

FARNOL, JEFFERY. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, nd. (c.1912). Attractive decorated binding. Regency romance about Barnabas Barty, the son of John Barty, the former boxing champion of England and landlord of a pub in Kent. At the start of the tale, Barnabas comes fortuitously into the p...

No Laughing Matter

SIMPSON, DOROTHY. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: Michael Joseph, 1993. 0718137086. 1st edition. Dorothy Simpson's twelfth criime novel. "When Inspector Thanet of Kent CID is called to the laboratory at a local Kentish vineyard he finds a horrifying scene. Broken glass everywhere, in chunks, shards and splinters. And ...

Sister Songs. An Offering to Two Sisters.

THOMPSON, FRANCIS. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Burns & Oates, 1910. By the author of "The Hound of Heaven". 20.5cms x 16.5cms. Pp.65/4(publisher's ads, foxing to endpapers, spot to closed page edges. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slightly rubbed. G+.

Underneath The Bough. A Poesie of Other Men's Flowers.

THOMPSON, THEODORA. (COMPILER). · 0 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: John Lane/ The Bodley Head, nd. 7th edition. Anthology of poetry and quotations. 16.5cms x 10cms x 2cms. Top edge gilt. Pp.462/6 (publisher's catalogue), green illustrated endpapers spotted, frontispiece illustration plus decorated title page. Green cloth with gilt tit...

Gray. Poems Published in 1768.

GRAY, THOMAS. · 1909 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: Henry Frowde, 1909. Facsimile edition. "reprinted, page for page and line for line, from a copy of the edition of 1768 kindly lent for the purpose by Professor W.Bang. The other poems published in Gray's lifetime (Ode Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge and A Lo...

The Death Ceremony.

MELVILLE, JAMES. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Secker & Warburg, 1985. 0436276968. 1st edition. Crime thriller featuring Japanese Superintendent Otani. "A first-rate crime story and an exploration of Japanese society conducted with wit, sympathy, and formidable expertise." Pp.181. Black cloth, dustwrapper illustrat...

The Day Of Recompense By Silas K. Hocking With Original Illustrations By A. Twidle .

HOCKING, SILAS K. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Frederick Warne And Co. 1899 . 0. Signed First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 8.0" x 5.5" x 1.25". pp.2/pp.357/[4pp. - Adverts]. Bright red cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to both the front board and spine. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine dulle...

Puritan and Anglican. Studies in Literature.

DOWDEN, EDWARD. · 1900 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.Ltd, 1900. 1st edition. Contents includes: I.Puritanism and English Literature; II.Sir Thomas Browne; III.Richard Hooker; IV.Anglo-Catholic Poets: Herbert, Vaughan; V.Milton: Civil Liberty; VI.Milton II - Ecclesiastical and Theological ...

The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age.

DICKSON CARR, JOHN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1983. 0385187149. 1st edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas G. Greene. "Nine never-before-published radio plays by the late John Dickson Carr..Here, all the hallmarks of Carr's classic detective novel...

Monsignor Quixote.

GREENE, GRAHAM. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: The Bodley Head, 1982. 0370309235. 1st edition. The book is a pastiche of the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes with many moments of comedy, but also offers reflection on matters such as life after a dictatorship, Communism, and the Catholic fait...

New Legends . Poems By Hervey Allen .

ALLEN, HERVEY [ WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN 1889-1949] / PRIESTLEY, J. B. (SIGNED) . · 1929 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, On Murray Hill, MCMXXIX [ 1929 ] . 0. Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm [7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75"]. pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards, edges lightly rubbed, with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles...

Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa 1747-65. Volume 3 Only.

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. 1851964614. A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflections, Contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison, 1755. Introduction by John A.Dussinger. Afterword by Ann Jessie Van...

Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa 1747-65. Volume 1. Only. Prefaces, Postscripts and Related Writings.

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL / KEYMER, THOMAS. (EDITOR). · 1998 · Chilton Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. 1851964614. Introduction by Jocelyn Harris. Texts edited with headnotes by Thomas Keymer. Contents includes: 1. Preliminary matter to Volumes I and II of the First Edition (December 1747); 2.William Warburton's Preface to Volumes III and IV of...