Letteratura

Poems by John Terry.

TERRY, JOHN. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Stratford-upon-Avon: Herald Press, nd.(c.1963). Collection of poems written between the 1940s and 1962. Unpaginated.Illustrated title page. Gift message from Margaret J.Terry to inside front board + short hand-written note from M.J.Terry (the author's wife??) loosely inserted....

The Lover's Missal.

MACKAY, ERIC. · 1897 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: Walter Scott Limited, 1897. Limited edition of six thousand copies. By the author of "The Love-Letters of a Violinist".14cms x 11cms. Pp.243/10(ads for other publications), light spotting to endpapers and closed page edges. Green cloth with gilt decorated title to fron...

Thorns and Mary-Lilies.

HENDERSON, JOHN. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1949. Collection of poetry, dedicated to the author's late wife. Pp.63. Blue cloth, gilt title to front board, minor bump to fore-edge. VG.

Sitting on the Fence. In Verse.

CLOUGH, ALAN. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ipswich: KDS, 1992. One of 100 copies. Fifty poems. Unpaginated. Signed by the author to title page. Paperback, slightly rubbed to rear. VG.

Listen.

HEAD, KATE. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Minerva Press, 1997. 1861061005. 1st edition. "In this original collection of poetry Kate Head deals with highly topical issues sometimes in a lighthearted manner and sometimes with a profound and disturbing realism, but always with a deep understanding of human emotio...

Woundings. A Play.

NOON, JEFF. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Birmingham: Oberon Books, 1986. 1870259009. Prize-winner in the1985 Mobil Playwrighting Competition. "Woundings is a powerful and tragic play set on an island in the South Atlantic. Scarred by recent battle, the island is garrisoned by Her Majesty's Forces Overseas. A Governme...

Hell in Contemporary Literature. Western Descent Narratives Since 1945.

FALCONER, RACHEL. · 2005 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 0748617639. 1st edition. "Explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering. In the contemporary period, the descent to Hel...

Woundings. A Play. (Signed).

NOON, JEFF. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Birmingham: Oberon Books, 1986. 1870259009. Prize-winner in the1985 Mobil Playwrighting Competition. "Woundings is a powerful and tragic play set on an island in the South Atlantic. Scarred by recent battle, the island is garrisoned by Her Majesty's Forces Overseas. A Governme...

Madeline.

BEMELMANS, LUDWIG. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Sphere, 1968. The first in the "Madeline" series. Sphere edition in association with Andre Deutch Ltd. 22.5cms x 17cms. Pp.48, illustrated throughout but with some blurring to the colour plates on pp. 10, 11,14 and 15, small chip to lower corner pp.13/14,23/24, and 29/...

Madeline in London.

BEMELMANS, LUDWIG. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Sphere, 1969. 0. In which Pepito moves to London, and Madeline and the girls go to visit him. First Sphere edition. 22.5cms x 17cms. Pp.56, illustrated throughout, small corner losses affecting pp.5/6, 43/44 and 53/54. Paperback, crease to lower rear cover. Good.

Our Seneca.

MENDELL, CLARENCE W. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

USA: Archon Books, 1968. Reprint of 1941 original in an unaltered and unabridged edition. "Seeks to provide a more just evaluation of the contributions of classical antiquity to the stage of 16th-Century England and France, especially in presenting the social and political bac...

Unknown Pilgrim.

SUTCLIFFE, JOHN C. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Dewsbury: Joseph Ward, 1985. 0861166612. Exact reprint of 1981 New Horizon publication. "This unusual book tells the remarkable story of a young man who, after a strange experience, decides to walk barefoot from Tangier to Northern Ireland dressed only in a simple Arab robe an...

The Noose.

MACDONALD, PHILIP. · 1930 · Chilton Books

£52.00 (€62.34 | $68.71 | ¥10,974)

London: W.Collins Sons & Co.Ltd, nd.(c.1930). Copyright edition. The Crime Club series, although nothing printed inside the book to state this the words "The Crime Club" to base of spine. Philip Macdonald re-introduces us to his amateur detective, Anthony Gethryn. "How does An...

The Eye of the Beholder.

WRIGHT, ROBERT. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Lewes: The Book Guild, 1997. 185776241X. 1st edition. Pp.153. Black cloth, dustwrapper (design by Hilary Prosser) has two small top edge tears. VG/G+.

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes.

WILSON, ANGUS. · 1956 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Secker and Warburg and The Book Society, 1956. Pp.x/412. Brown cloth, illustrated dustwrapper by Ronald Searle has edge tears with slight sunning to spine. Good/Good.

Poetry For Charity. (signed).

MAYES, DEREK WYNDHAM. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Halstead: Press and PR Services, 1994. Collection of poetry originally published for the benefit of local Halstead (Essex) charities. Pp.48, signed by the author to title page. Blue card wraps, gilt title to front, cover has uneven sunning. G+.

False Evidence.

OPPENHEIM, E. PHILLIPS. · 1913 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Ward, Lock & Co, Ltd, 1913. Story of a gallant soldier who is dismissed from his regiment, and disowned by his father, because he has been found guilty, on "false evidence," of cowardice in the field. He changes his name, and later his son falls in love with the daught...

Songs From The Flaming Years. Poems from Budapest 1938 and after.

GRAHAM-BROWN, CHARLES. [1915-1943]. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Colchester: Privately published(Felicity Hart), 1991. Charles Godfrey Graham-Brown taught English at the Berlitz School of Languages in 1938. "In the Spring of 1939 he returned to England and worked in a literary agency. Throughout these years he was writing poems, stories, an...

Birds of Heaven.

OKRI, BEN. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Phoenix, 1996. 1857995937. "In these two inspirational essays, Ben Okri returns to the themes of his novel, Astonishing the Gods. He explores the meaning of language, its unique power to shape and direct our lives, and the special responsibilities that belong to those ...

Before the Crossing.

JAMESON, STORM. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1947. 1st edition. "Although this book is concerned with the search for a murderer, it is not a detective novel, and its excitements are not the same excitements of a detective novel..David Renn became a spy because of his passionate curiosity abou...