Letteratura

Asya.

IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1991. 0701135093. 1st edition. "The compelling account of one indomitable woman's path through revolution, war and exile, 'Asya' is above all an enthralling love story which encompasses some of the momentous historical events of our time." Pp.309, sign...

Plays on the Word. Christian Drama for Churches, Schools and Youth Groups.

HAYLOCK, DEREK. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: National Society/Church House, 1993. 0715148249. 1st edition. Eighteen witty, fast-moving sketches ideal for family services, school assemblies, youth clubs and church drama groups. In each sketch a serious message about the gospel is conveyed clearly through the humou...

While The Bells Ring. (illustrated by Janet Rawlins).

MAYNE, WILLIAM. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 024189932X. 1st edition. "A story about people, but it is also a story about landscape, in which the Dales setting plays an important part. The artist, Janet Rawlins, knows and loves the Yorkshire Dales and her pictures perfectly complement Willi...

Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land.

STOPPARD, TOM. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Faber and Faber, 1978. 0571110940. Reprint. Drama. "Dirty Linen eavesdrops on a Select Committee investigating the moral standards of the House of Commons." Pp.75. Paperback, black & white photos of the original cast (including Peter Bowles, Edward de Souza, and the re...

World's End and Other Stories.

THEROUX, PAUL. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. 0241104475. 1st edition. Pp.211. Blue cloth, dustwrapper (illustration by Michael Foreman) is price-clipped, minor wear to top edge. VG/VG.

When the Words are Gone.

SCOTT, HARDIMAN. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Chatto and Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1972 0701119144. 1st edition. The Phoenix Living Poets series. "The majority of poems in this collection are concerned with East Anglia, its natural and human and historical landscapes, and particularly the first of these, in the fo...

After All. A Play in Three Acts.

VAN DRUTEN, JOHN. · 1929 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1929. 1st edition. " 'After All' was first produced under the auspices of the Incorporated Stage Society and the Three Hundred Club at the Apollo Theatre on the evening of Sunday, May 5th, 1929. Since that production the play has been very largely re...

The Story of an African Farm. A Novel.

IRON, RALPH. [PSEUD. OLIVE SCHREINER]. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. New Edition. Pp.296/8(ads for other publications), small bookseller's label(Widdison, Sheffield) to inside rear cover, owner's name to front free endpaper. Dark green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slightly rubbed. G+.** "Olive Schreiner ...

Jealous Woman. [and Sinful Woman].

CAIN, JAMES M. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955. 1st British edition which includes the first British hardcover printing of Sinful Woman. Two novels of violent action and emotion. Pp224, minor spotting to closed page edges, owner's name to inside front board. Black cloth, illustrated dustwr...

Some Newly Discovered Stanzas Written by John Milton on Engraved Scenes Illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses.

MILTON, JOHN / CANDY, HUGH C.H.(REVISOR). · 1924 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd, 1924. 1st edition. This Milton-Ovid Script was written, circa 1623; discovered, 1921; first printed, in Notes and Queries, 1922-3; and is now revised and reprinted, in one volume, with many additional notes by Hugh C.H.Candy. Pp.192, black & white por...

Leaves From a Notebook.

RAMSDEN, CHARLES. · 1931 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

York: Wm. Stevens, Yorkshire Printing Works, 1931. Poetry. Pp.22, spotting throughout, scuffing to title page. Brown card covers rubbed with edge wear. Good.

St Brigit of the Mantle. A Christmas Mystery Play.

KELLY, NORAH. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: SPCK, 1924. Parish Plays, No.11. Pp.31. Fawn card covers. VG.

The Seasons of the Blind and Other Radio Plays in Verse.

SCRIVEN, R.C. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1974. 0563126604. 1st edition. R.C.Scriven was a free-lance journalist and radio dramatist, despite being nearly stone deaf since the age of eight and blind for much of his life. Pp.184. Black cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with minor...

The Shaping of Modern French Poetry. Reflections on Unrhymed Poetic Form 1840-1990.

LITTLE, ROGER. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995. 1857541898. 1st edition. "This book is uniquely designed for those interested in the radical possibilities of poetry, and for students of French literature at graduate and undergraduate level." Pp.viii/117, mild spotting to closed page edges n...

Stones from a Glass House.

FINDLATER, JANE HELEN. · 1904 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: James Nisbet & Co.Limited, 1904. Contents: I. Great War Novels; II.On Religious Novels; III. The Slum Movement in Fiction; IV. The Scot of Fiction; V. O Tempora! O Mores!; VI. The Artof Narration; VII.George Borrow; VIII."As Compared with Excellence"; IX. Modern Traged...

The Solitude of Thomas Cave.

HARDING, GEORGINA. · 2007 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Signed Uncorrected Proof copy. "Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the nature of mankind and our impact on the environment. Thomas Cave is a whaler on Arctic expeditions collect...

Tunc.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. 1st edition. By the author of The Alexandria Quartet. Pp.316, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed. G+/G+.

The Decision and the Consequence.

BELTON, C. · 1932 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Privately published, nd.(c.1932). Being Three Scenes from Old Jerusalem written in verse. Vision I. The Voice of the People; Vision II. The Voice of God - Grace; Vision III. The Voice of God - Judgment. Pp.viii/131, sepia frontispiece illustrations + 2 further sepia il...

Commerce, Morality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

BELLAMY, LIZ. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Cambridge:University Press, 1998. 0521622247. 1st edition. "British culture underwent radical change in the eighteenth century with the emergence of new literary genres and discourses of social analysis. As novelists developed the fictional form, writers of economic tracts and...

The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis?

AUDEN, W.H. AND ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1944. 3rd impression. A Play in Three Acts. Pp.180, ownership details of literary scholar Howard Henry Erskine-Hill to front free endpaper, another owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, rubbed. G+.