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Mr. Sammler's Planet.

BELLOW, SAUL. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York: Viking Press, 1970. 1st ed. Fiction. "A tall old man, blind in one eye, born in Cracow but with Oxonian manners and the face of a British Museum reader, strides lightly and recklessly, rolled umbrella pointing, through the pages of Saul Bellow's new novel." Pp. 313, ...

Egyptian Earth.

SHARKAWI, A.R. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Heinemann. 1962. "The narrator of this Egyptian novel is a twelve-year-old boy, who returns from his primary school in the city to find his village torn with feud and anxiety". Pp 250, name to fep. Brown cloth cover, slight sunning to spine, silver title to spine. G+.

The Beginnings of English Literature to Skelton 1509. (Introduction's to English Literature Vol.1)

RENWICK, W.L AND ORTON, HAROLD. · 1966 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: The Cresset Press. 1966. "The Introduction, deals with the literature of the period in all its forms, connecting it with the other arts and with contemporary philosophic and religious movements. The remaining two-thirds of the book consists of a bibliography raisonnee,...

Pamela Hansford Johnson. (Writers and their Work. No.203).

QUIGLY, ISABEL. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1968. 1st ed. "Pamela Hansford Johnson is in no sense a stereotyped writer; as Isabel Quigly observes in this first critical essay to be published on her work". Pp 48, portrait to frontis. P/b, slight sunning to spine. G+.

Perspective for Poetry. (Key Essays No.1).

LINDSAY, JACK. · 1944 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: Fore Publications. 1944. "There was considerable activity in 1944 in the writing and printing of verse. A glance inside the covers of the books will show that there was considerable and experimental verse abound. Certain trends emphasise themselves confusedly and loudl...

Full Circle. Shakespeare and Moral Development.

HOBSON, ALAN. · 1972 · Chilton Books

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London: Chatto and Windus. 1972. "The author is blessed with many excellent insights and fresh points of view. His book is expert, lively and persuasive: it enables us to return from a new angle to the inexhaustible subject of Shakespeare's moral themes". Pp 232, ex college li...

Cash Mc.Call.

HAWLEY, CAMERON. · 1956 · Chilton Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

London: Hammond, Hammond & Co. 1956. "A gripping story, immensely readable, sharply revealing, warmly human. There is high drama in the world of business, and the author stands high in his ability to bring it to life with authenticity and interest" Pp 446. Green cloth, illustr...

Spenser's Anatomy of Heroism. A Commentary on The Faerie Queene.

EVANS, MAURICE. · 1970 · Chilton Books

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Cambridge: The University Press. 1970. 1st ed. "A study of Spenser's conception of the nature of heroism and the way it is embodied in the seperate books of The Faerie Queene. Stresses the coherence of Spenser's scheme of virtues and examines the fusion of christian symbol and...

Augustans and Romantics 1689-1830. (Introductions to English Literature Vol.3).

DYSON, H.V.D AND BUTT, JOHN. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: The Cresset Press. 1961. "The Introduction, deals with the literature of the period in all its forms, connecting it with the other arts and with contemporary philosophic and religious movements. There are chapters on the art, economics, and philosophy of the period. Th...

C.P. Snow. Columbia Essays on Modern Writers.

DAVIS, ROBERT GORHAM. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Columbia University Press. 1965. "A series of critical studies of English, Continental, and other writers whose works are of contemporary artistic and intellectual significance". Pp 48, name to title page. P/b, rusting to staples, illustrated cover. G+.

The Victorians and After 1830-1914. (Introductions to English Literature Vol.4).

BATHO, EDITH C AND DOBREE, BONAMY. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: The Cressent Press. 1962. "The Introduction, deals with the literature of the period in all its forms. The economic background is dealt with in a seperate chapter. The remaining two-thirds of the book consist of a bibliography raisonnee, made up of lists of books". Pp ...

The Stones of Emptiness. Poems 1963-66.

THWAITE, ANTHONY. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 1st ed. "There is a new energy, freedom, and colour in these North African poems." Pp. 9/58, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w has small numbers ...

Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War.

SILKIN, JON. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: Oxford University Press, 1972. 1st ed. "No other book on this subject - central to the mythology of the twentieth century - ranges so widely or probes so deeply the responses and achievements of the 'war poets' ." Pp. 10/366, ex college library stamps to fep, verso fro...

Songs of Youth and Later Poems.

O'CONNOR, PATRICK. · 1957 · Chilton Books

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Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds Ltd, 1957. 1st ed. Poetry. Pp. 101, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Orange cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

A Choice of Sir Walter Ralegh's Verse.

NYE, ROBERT. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Faber & Faber, 1972. 1st ed. ".. Robert Nye has assembled a selection of Ralegh's poems that is self-evidently worth reading, and contributes a judicious and sympathetic assessment of their value." Pp. 72, ex college stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Blu...

William Faulkner. (Profiles in Literature Series.)

MOTTRAM, ERIC. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. 1st ed. "William Faulkner is one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century." Pp 9/110, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Dark blue cloth, portrait illustrated d/w. G+/G+.

Second Thoughts. Reflections on Literature and on Life. (Translated from the French by Adrienne Foulke.)

MAURIAC, FRANCOIS. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Darwen Finlayson, 1961. 1st ed. "Francois Mauriac, recognized as one of the world's most distinguished novelists and critics, has selected from his literary journals these penetrating and deeply moving essays on our society and its literature." Pp. 176 ex college libra...

The Tragic Mask: A Study of Faulkner's Heroes.

LONGLEY, JOHN LEWIS. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

USA: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. 1st ed. "This is a book about Faulkner's people, the multitude of saints and men of courage, villains and clowns, who inhabit the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha." Pp. 9/242, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board an...

The Truest Poetry: An Essay on the Question What is Literature?

LERNER, LAURENCE. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. 1st ed. "The Truest Poetry is a study in aesthetics, concerned with the principles of literary criticism .." Pp. 10/221, ex college library stamps to fep, verso front board and title page. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has sunning and numb...

Middle English Religious Prose. (York Medieval Texts Series.)

BLAKE, N.F. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,216)

London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd, 1972. 1st ed. "This collection of texts is designed to show the continuity and at the same time the diversity of work by English writers in the religious prose tradition during the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries." Pp. 6/228, ex colle...