Letteratura

Rhymes for a Grandchild.

GILL, JEAN. · 0 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Woodbridge: Privately published, nd. Collection of poems for children with line drawing illustrations by Valentine Hale Boyden occasionally throughout. Cream card covers. VG.

Pages of Page's.

PAGE, CANON CLIFF. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Tatura(Australia: Canon Cliff Page, 1983. 0959194002. 1st edition. "In some of the verses there is deep Christian understanding - in a form that brings spiritual truths direct to the heart of the reader. There is in these verses a simplicity that reflects their background in c...

The Bear Book.

PFLOOG, JAN. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: Golden Press,1965. Children's illustrated book about bears in the shape of a bear's head. Unpaginated but with 24 colour illustrated pages showing Black, Grizzly, Brown and Polar bears, pages toned. Stiff card covers with bear's face to front and back covers, title i...

French Poems of To-Day. An Anthology.

PAYEN-PAYNE, DE V. & CLARKE, ISABELLE H. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London; Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1926. 2nd impression. Pp.xvi/240, foxing to first few pages, a few light pencil annotations. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine. Good.

Miriam and Other Poems.

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. · 1871 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Boston: James R.Osgood and Company, 1871. Pp.106, toning to pages. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to front and spine, edges rubbed. Good. **John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the...

Thumbs Up.

AVERY, HAROLD. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Nisbet & Co Ltd, 1925. 1st edition. "An elderly gentleman of unimpeachable respectability, is suddenly seized with the conviction that, for their moral and intellectual well-being, his neighbours need "livening up." The complications in which his crusade invloves not o...

Grey Rabbit's May Day. (Pictures by Margaret Tempest).

UTTLEY, ALISON. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Collins,1963. 1st edition. "As May Day drew near there were great preparations in Grey Rabbit's house. Hare had seen in the village the lovely Maypole with its dangling ribbons all ready for the children to dance round. Couldn't they have a Maypole too? But Grey Rabbit...

The Moon of the Caribbees and Six Other Plays of the Sea.

O'NEILL, EUGENE G. · 1919 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. 1st editon. First issue with the called for errors to pp.30 and 108. Pp.217, with the ownership signature of the actress Lady Martin Harvey, dated 1924 to front free endpaper and her bookplate(by K.Cameron) to inside front board. Small losse...

Lent Legends. Stories for Children from Church History.

NEALE, J.M. · 1884 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London; J.Masters & Co, 1884. 3rd edition. Contents: I. The Siege of Omura; II. The Wolf of the Spessart Wald; III. The Martyrs of Gorcum; IV. The Oak of Luxford's Lane; V. The Boulder of Val' de Passos; VI. The Caldron of Carcassone; VII. The Sacrifice of Onnontague; VIII. Th...

Folia Caduca.

BEACON, ROBERT. · 1901 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: James Nisbet & Co Ltd, 1901. Collection of descriptive, musical, occasional, memorial, and devotional poetry and blank verse. Includes poems on Guernsey, the Isle of Wight, Cumberland, Scotland, and Dorset. Pp.120. Cream boards with gilt title to front and spine, a lit...

Reasons. Poems by Yvonne Harrison.

HARRISON, YVONNE. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Chichester: New Wine Press, 1989. 0947852565. "The poems express Yvonne's personal faith in Jesus, many taking the form of prayers." Pp.48. Paperback. VG.

Winsome Wins Through.

HARRIS, BETH COOMBE. · 1937 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Kilmarnock:John Ritchie Ltd, nd. (c.1937). Pp.258, colour frontispieceof a young man in shirt and smart trousers & shoes climbing round a cliff face to rescue a small dog + 3 black & white plates, prize bookplate ("Bethedsda" Sunday School Ipswich 1st prize award for obtaining...

Poems.

TABER, OLIVIA BETTY. · 2013 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Lavenham: Privately printed, 2013. One of 50 copies printed for private circulation for family and friends, with wood engravings by Yvonne Skargon. Pp.48, wood engravings of flora and fauna throughout, inscribed by the author "To Douglas & Margaret with love from Betty May 2nd...

Amateur Acting And Producing For Beginners. By D. J. Desmond .

DESMOND, D. J. [ PSEUD. SAVILLE, MALCOLM ] . · 1937 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, Tower House, Southampton Street, W.C.2, 1937 . 0. First edition. A good tight binding. pp.109 . Orange cloth covered boards with black titles to both front board and spine. Light fading to front board. Light toning to endpapers, other wise clean ...

The Farm Shown to the Children. (Described by Foster Meadow).

F.M.B./BLAIKIE, A.H. · 1929 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: T.C. & E.C.Jack, nd(c.1929). One of a popular series of informative books for children. Some simple facts about the life and work of a farm. 16.5cms x 12cms x 2cms. Pp.xii/91, 48 coloured plates,small bookseller's label (Alex Ridley, Tenterden,Kent) to inside front boa...

Men of Destiny. or The Moment of No Return.

KING-HALL, STEPHEN. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: K-H Services Ltd, 1960. 1st edition. "A sudden crisis over West Berlin triggered off by the East German Communists. With Russian foreknowledge and support? The West took this for granted; they were wrong..We observe the frantic efforts of the men of "the Establishments...

Dialogue in Novels & Plays.

MORGAN, CHARLES. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ashford: The Hand and Flower Press, 1953. Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture I. Pp.vi/21, date notation to front free endpaper. Orange cloth. VG.

Altered States.

BROOKNER, ANITA. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. 0224042823. 1st edition. "Altered States is a forceful exploration of the conflicting needs of men and women, and the lack of understanding which divides them. Powerfully written and rich in perception, Anita Brookner's portrait of moral vulnerabil...

Winter's Tales 20.

MACLEAN, A.D. (EDITOR). · 1974 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Macmillan, 1974. Collection of 10 Short Stories. A Taste of Nutmeg by Sally Griffiths; Kielty's by Susan Hill; The Snare by Roy Holland; Class of 1948; The Process of Living by Shiva Naipaul; How to Write a Short Story by Sean O'Faolain; Grass Roots by Anne Piper; The ...

Hymns and Poems.

RAMSBOTTOM, REV.GEORGE F. · 1894 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Spottiswoode and Co, 1894. Original 1st edition. The poems "were written when I lived in one of the most lovely dales in Derbyshire; and it will be seen that most of those which are not purely Scriptural in character are founded upon incidents occurring among a people ...