Letteratura

Way Out in the Centre.

ABSE, DANNIE. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Hutchinson, 1981. 0091448514. Collection of Abse's poetry. Pp.56, signed by author to title page. Pbk. VG.

Robert Bridges. The Rede Lecture, 1931.

GORDON, G.S. · 1946 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. Pp.38. Pbk. VG.

Walt Whitman: The Prophet of the New Era.

HAYES, WILL. · 1921 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

London: C.W.Daniel Ltd, nd.(c.1921). An extended comparison between Whitman and Christ in which the object was to make Whitman out as a religious prophet. Pp.194/1(ad), rough-cut page edges, toning to rear endpapers. Black paper boards withoriginal paper labels to front and sp...

St Francis of Assisi and Other Poems.

PAKENHAM-WALSH, REV. H. · 1913 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1913. Religious poetry. Pp.70. Pbk, covers slightly rubbed. VG.

Bethlehem: A Nativity Play.

HOUSMAN, LAURENCE. · 1936 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Macmillan and Co, 1936. Rep. Pp.45. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

Hours With The Players.

COOK, DUTTON. · 1883 · Chilton Books

£42.00 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. A New Edition with Frontispiece. Biographical sketches of theatrical players. Pp.12/359/32(ads), engraved portrait frontis, owners details to preliminary page, spotting to title page. Blue decorated cloth, 'Veluti in Speculum' to front, gilt ti...

The Go-Ahead Gang. (Illustrated by Maureen Bradley).

SWINDELLS, ROBERT. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

London: Puffin/Penguin, 1994. 0140365079. A Young Puffin story book for those who have developed reading fluency. Pp.87, b/w illustrations by Maureen Bradley throughout. Pbk, cover illustration by David Kearney. VG.

Great Snakes! (Illustrated by Posy Simmonds).

WRIGHT, KIT. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥739)

London: Puffin/Penguin, 1995. 0140343156. "With witty illustrations by Posy Simmonds, this is an original and entertaining collection from one of today's most popular children's poets." Pp.92. Pbk. VG.

Marginal Man. Poems.

ALLWOOD, MARTIN S. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

New York: The Liberal Press, 1947. Martin S. Allwood wrote in both Swedish and English and translated many Swedish works. These poems are in English. Pp.31, owners name (John Atkins) to title page. Red card covers sunned to top and spine edge. Scarce. G+.

What She Could and Other Verses.

COOTE, CONSTANCE. · 1904 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1904. 1st ed. Religious poetry. Pp.112, endpapers browned. Blue cloth, gilt decorated title to front, gilt title to spine. VG.

Folk Dancing.

GIBSON, JOHN. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Wells-next-the-Sea: The Hawthorn Press, 1996. 1899604081. Poetry. Pp.43. Pbk. VG.

Court and Culture: Dutch Literature 1350-1450. (Translated by Arnold J Pomerans).

OOSTROM, FRITS PIETER VAN. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 0520067770. 1st ed. "A ground-breaking study of Dutch court culture in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, this book also interweaves dynastic history, documentary evidence, art, architecture, and literature to pro...

Many Are the Travellers.

MELONEY, WILLIAM BROWN. · 1954 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: W.H.Allen, 1954. "..the story of a dynastic family - the Tracys - who dominate the environs of the small town in which for centuries they have had their roots." Pp.288. Maroon cloth, d/w rubbed to rear. VG/VG.

The Monster of Mu.

RUTTER, OWEN. · 1932 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Ernest Benn, 1932. 1st edition. New Ninepenny Novels Number 22. "The thrilling story of the race for treasure in the pacific and its tragic ending involving an uncharted island inhabited by an unknown race of pygmies". Pp.159, occasional line illustrations, slight toni...

Sacred Poems for the Sick and Suffering.

MOUL, JAMES. · 1876 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: W.Wells Gardner, 1876. Religious poetry. All edges red. Pp.144, foxing to preliminaries and index, crossed out name + a date to fep. Brown decorated cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly cocked. G+.

Little Plays of St Francis: Sister Clare.

HOUSMAN, LAURENCE. · 0 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, nd. One of the 'Little Plays' series. A dramatic cycle from the Life and Legend of St Francis of Assisi. There are 18 plays in all. Letter from publishers, Sidgwick & Jackson, loosely inserted. Pbk, rubbed with crease to lower front corner. G+.

Effie's Friends; Or Chronicles of Woods and Shore.

ANON. [ LADY AUGUSTA NOEL (NEE) KEPPEL ]. · 1875 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London: James Nisbet, 1875. Victorian children's short stories written anonomously by Lady Augusta Noel ,wife of Ernest Noel and daughter of General George Thomas Keppel. Stories include: The Swallow's Story; The Peacock's Story; The Sparrow's Story; and The Seagull's Story. P...

Tryphena's Summer.

OWEN, WILLIAM. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Auckland: Collins, 1974. 1st ed. "In Tryphena's Summer, William Owen has taken the Island of Great Barrier in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf and adapted it to set the scene for this full, robust, novel of action, alive with colourful characters." This novel was a runner-up in the Auc...

Brothers to the Wind.

PUTNAM, VII. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Methuen, 1960. "Vanita Mitchell is nearly eight when her large family, recently arrived from France and England, move to a California ranch. The 'gajos' (non-gypsies) don't worry this carefree community; only the hostile 'wofudi man' (a gypsy-hater) tries to interfere,...

High Deryni. (Volume III of the Chronicles of the Deryni).

KURTZ, KATHERINE. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Century, 1986. 0712694994. "High Deryni is the third book in the Chronicles of the Deryni: Katherine Kurtz's fantasy trilorgy set in the imaginary kingdom of Gwynedd..an addictive story of romantic fantasy - where a boy-king and a host of Holy Church priests form the o...