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Some Religious Elements in English Literature. (Hogarth Lectures No.14).

MACAULAY, ROSE. · 1931 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,1931. 1st ed. Pp.160, small booksellers label(Foyles) to verso front board,light spotting to closed fore-edges with a few minor marginal spots. Orange cloth,spine slightly sunned. G+.

Russian Short Stories.

KOTELIANSKY, S.S. · 1941 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1941. 1st.ed. "Chosen from work of recent years..Includes Dorothy Parker, Faulkner, Damon Runyan, O'Hara and Stephen Vincent Benet." Pp, 156, page edges toned. P/b. G.

A Difficulty With Dwarves.

GARDNER, CRAIG SHAW. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥739)

London: Headline Book Publishing, 1989. 1st.ed. "Our hero copes with the dreaded rhyming demon Guxx Unfufadoo, but must brave untold obstacles to beg help from Mother Duck." Pp, 250. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

Telling Tales. An Interview with ANNE FINE.

FINE, ANNE. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Mammoth, 1999. 1st.ed. "A great way to meet your favourite author." Pp, 60, some b/w. illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

Pitfall in August.

ROMAN, HOWARD. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: W.H.Allen,1961. 1st British ed. "This full-bodied novel of suspense brilliantly depicts the plight of a compassionate young man caught in a web of deceit and madness." Pp.306. Red cloth. G+.

The Lesson in Appreciation. An Essay on the Pedagogics of Beauty.

HAYWARD,FRANK HERBERT. · 1922 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

New York:Macmillan,1922. This book deals mainly with the teaching of the appreciation of poetry, but also has chapters on music and art as well as literaray appreciation. Pp.16/234,owners name to fep. Blue cloth,gilt title to spine. G+.

Part of Silence.

SCOTT, HARDIMAN. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ipswich: Brechinset, 1984. 1st ed. "Scott's 3rd book of poems of Suffolk and East Anglia .. explores themes of love, time and place .. sometimes gives in to a quirky, ironic sense of humour" Pp.64. P/b, uneven toning to rear cover. G+.

An Advancement of Learning (A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel).

HILL, REGINALD. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Grafton, 1987. Rep. "Adult mystery story .. seaside college murders". Pp.271, slight toning to pages. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

Poetry please! 100 Popular Poems from the BBC Radio 4 Programme.

EVERYMAN. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Orion, 1998. Rep. "Poems for every mood and taste of verse in English .. Thomas, Masefield Gray etc". Pp.152/6(ads), slight toning to pages. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

Man is An Onion. Reviews and Essays.

ENRIGHT, D.J. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London:Chatto & Windus,1972. 1st ed. "..on English,American and European novelists(Lowry,Lessing,Spark,Hesse,Nabokov and Grass); on English and European poetry ranging from Shakespeare through Cavafy to Stevie Smith; and on such diverse Asian writers or writers on Asia as Yuki...

Nineteenth Century Studies. Coleridge to Matthew Arnold.

WILLEY, BASIL. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London:Chatto & Windus,1949. 1st ed. "..a preliminary enquiry into the history of religious and moral ideas in the nineteenth century." Pp.8/288. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

The Great Railway Bazaar.

THEROUX, PAUL. · 0 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

London: Penguin Books. Rep. "Fired by a fascination with trains that stemmed from childhood, Paul Theroux set out one day with the intention of boarding every train that chugged into view from Victoria Station in London to Tokyo Central, and to come back again via the Trans-Si...

Georgian Poetry.

REEVES, JAMES. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥950)

Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1962. 1st ed. Pp. 23/172, pages slightly toned. P/b.G+.

From Blake to Byron. Pelican Guide to English Literature 5.

FORD, BORIS. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1965. Rep....."it begins with an account of the social and intellectual context of English literature during the Romantic period, followed by a survey of the literature itself." Pp.314, pages slightly toned. P/b,crease to lower front corner. G+.

Listen to Danger.

EDEN, DOROTHY. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965. "The telephone becomes an instrument of torture, as a young widow waits to her from the kidnapper of her two small children." Pp, 206, page edges slightly toned. P/b, illustrated cover. G.

Thackeray. Literature in Perspective.

WILLIAMS, LOAN M. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

London: Evans Brothers, 1968. 1st.ed. "Surveys of major English literary figures and groups." Pp, 136, 4 b/w illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

Master Stories of the 20th. Century.

THAL, HERBERT VAN. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Pan Books, 1963. 1st.ed. "Treasurehouse of superb stories, each of them a rattling good read." Pp, 270, page edges toned. P/b, G.

Dr. Seuss's. ABC.

SEUSS, DR. · 1964 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Glasgow: Collins, 1964. 1st.ed. "Learning to read is fun with Beginner Books." Pp, 63, many coloured illustrations. P/b, creasing to covers, illustrated cover. G+.

The Romantic Poets.

HOUGH, GRAHAM. · 1958 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Arrow Books, 1958. "Shows how poetry at the end of the eighteenth century was being influenced by the new liberal conception of man..it was an outcry against a harsh world, badly in need of reform and a new gentleness." Pp, 196, page edges slightly toned. P/b, illustra...

We Who Are Fortunate.

ROOK,ALAN. · 1945 · Chilton Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

London:Routledge,1945. 1st ed. War Poetry. "Some of the poems in this book have appeared in John O' London's Weekly; Life and Letters Today; Poetry (London); Poetry Quarterly; The Times Literary Supplement; in several Anthologies; and in Magazines in the Middle East." 19.5cms ...