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Songs and Rhymes.

RICHARDS, C. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: James Nisbet & Co,1935. 0. An anthology of songs and rhymes for children. Pp.22, black & white illustrations (some by Helen Jacobs) throughout. Red black and cream decorated card covers with minor corner creasing. VG.

Ponies in Clover.

GERVAISE, MARY. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

London: Armada, 1968. 0. "'Stop-stop-wait!' she gasped out thinking that if only he would stand still she might manage to mount him. But of course she should have said 'Go on'! As it was, he leapt forward - she lost her grip and fell heavily, striking her head on the exposed r...

The Art of the Gawain-Poet.

DAVENPORT, W.A. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: University of London/Athlone Press, 1978. 048512050X. 1st edition. "Starting from the assumption that "Pearl, Purity, Patience" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" are by one poet, W.A.Davenport seeks to define the nature of his art..Many of the problems experienced ...

The Testaments of Francois Villon. (Translated by John Heron Lepper).

LEPPER, JOHN HERON. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: The Casanova Society, 1924. 0. Privately printed for subscribers, a limited edition of 775 copies of which 750 are for sale. This copy is numbered 545. 25.5cms x 19cms. Pp.145, frontispiece facsimile of P.Levet's edition of 1489, rough cut page edges with some pages un...

The Orion Line.

LUARD, NICHOLAS. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Secker & Warburg,1976. 1st edition. "Underground cells of men and women, heroes, traitors, patriots and criminals, running a wartime network that spanned Europe from Belgium to the Spanish border. That was the Orion Line. But the Orion Line had been penetrated and smas...

The Dirty Area.

LUARD, NICHOLAS. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 0241101301. 1st edition. "He was called Ross Callum and in the Tangier straits he was a legend. A flamboyant hell-raising womaniser who, until he disappeared, had owned the fastest launch on the coast and made a fortune running guns to the Sahel ...

The Chastening. Poems.

BLAKELOCK, DENYS. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Dublin: Assisi Press, 1957. 0. Ex college library. Pp.29, inkstamps to front endpapers, scuffing to front free endpaper. White boards, gilt title to spine. G+.

Cranford.

GASKELL, MRS. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: James Nisbet, 1903. 0. All edges gilt. Pp.313/6(ads), frontispiece illustration by H.M.Brock. Dark green cloth, blind-stamped motif to front, gilt "art nouveau" decorated title to spine with "Kiek & Son" to base of spine. VG.

The Mirror Of The Sinful Soul : A prose translation from the French of a poem by Queen Margaret of Navarre, made in 1554 by the Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth, then eleven years of age...

AMES, PERCY W. (EDITOR) . / MARGUERITE, QUEEN, CONSORT OF HENRY II, KING OF NAVARRE, 1492-1549. · 1897 · Chilton Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London : Asher and Co, 1897. 0. First edition. "Reproduced in facsimile, with portrait, for the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, and edited, with an introduction and notes by Percy W. Ames." Excerpt from the Introduction: "This translation, made by Queen Eliz...

Wolf the Mechanical Dog. (Illustrations by Pat Leyshun).

WELDON, FAY. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: William Collins Sons & Co, 1988. 0001847929. 1st edition. "Fay Weldon's picture of a future world is both frightening and funny. Even though machines are dominant it is still possible for human children to throw a spanner in the works." Unpaginated, distinctive black a...

The Making of Pride and Prejudice.

BIRTWISTLE, SUE AND CONKLIN, SUSIE. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Penguin/BBC Books, 1995. 014025157X. Reprint. "Chronicling eighteen months of work - from the original concept to the first broadcast - "The Making of Pride and Prejudice" brings vividly to life the challenges and triumphs involved in every stage of production of this ...

Inheritance. (A Novel).

SUNDERLAND, CHRISTINE. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Waterford, Virginia: OakTara, 2009. 9781602902190. "Woven through the mists of Lent to new life on Easter Day, 'Inheritance' draws the lives of four characters together to a stunning unforgettable conclusion..A poignant story about choices made along the way.and the miracles o...

Rabble in Arms. A Chronicle of Arundel and the Burgoyne Invasion.

ROBERTS, KENNETH. · 1939 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Collins, 1939. 0. 2nd impression. "A rabble in arms, flushed with success and insolence." (Gen.Burgoyne to Lord Rochfort, describing American troops before Boston). Pp.718, maps to endpapers, slight toning to pages. Green cloth, title to spine dulled. G+.

The Story of Gösta Berling. Translated from the Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach.

LAGERLOF, SELMA. · 1907 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1907. 0. The author's first novel. "The tales are founded on actual occurrences and depict the life in the province of Värmland at the beginning of this century". Pp.viii/473, gift message to front free endpaper. Olive green cloth, gilt title...

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's.

HYNES, SAMUEL. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: The Bodley Head, 1976. 0370103815. "Those who came of literary age during the 1930's - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood, Orwell, Rex Warner, to name only a few - were, whether they knew it or not and whether they knew each other or not, ver...

At The Sign Of The Lyre.

DOBSON, AUSTIN. · 1885 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1885. 0. Poetry. 16cms x 10cms. Pp.x/233, engraved frontispiece, foxing to endpapers. Green bevelled cloth, gilt title to front and spine, spine a bit darkened. G+.

Lybeaus Desconus.

MILLS, M.(EDITOR). · 1969 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: The Early English Text Society/Oxford University Press, 1969. 0. "In this edition of Lybeaus Desconus the two best copies (those of MSS.Cotton Caligua A.II. and Lambeth Palace 306) have been printed as parallel texts.." Pp.302, frontispieces photo illustrations of Brit...

Jorrocks' Jaunts & Jollities.

SURTEES, ROBERT S. · 0 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Murray's Abbey Classics, nd. 0. "Mr Jorrocks, the hero of this book, is the jovial Victorian, the Cockney merchant who rides to hounds with verve and enthusiasm." Pp.253, colour frontispiece, browning to pages. Red cloth, illustrated dustwrapper by Brabbins(same as fro...

The Holiday Round.

MILNE, A.A. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: Methuen, 1912. 0. These sketches previously appeared in Punch magazine. Pp.312/38(book ads), front free endpaper absent, foxing to half-title page with crack to inner hinge but still holding, occasional light spotting. Green cloth, blind-stamped title to front, gilt ti...

Khalida. (Signed)

PERKINS, KEN. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Quartet Books, 1991. 070432783X. 1st edition. The author's first novel. "Aden in the 1960s. A young British soldier, Corporal Kelly has been seduced by an Arab woman in her desperate bid to divert him from an explosives cache. Unknown to Kelly, his daaughter Khalida ha...