CHILTON BOOKS

Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections. Edited by E.H. Mikhail. Volume 1 and volume 2. Two volume set.

WILDE, Oscar 1854-1900 / MIKHAIL, E. H. (Editor) - · 1979

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1979 . 0333240405 First edition. A very good set with illustrated dustwrapper. Fading to spines of the dustwrappers.Clean black cloth with titles to spine. Clean throughout. Previous owner's ink stamp to base page edges. VG/VG .

De Profundis By Oscar Wilde .

WILDE, Oscar 1854-1900 / ROSS, Robert Baldwin 1869-1918 - Preface. - · 1905

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London: Methuen And Co., 36 Essex Street, Strand, 1905 . 0 True first edition. Original publisher's cloth binding. Gilt titles to front board and spine . Edges rubbed and bumped. Top and tail of spine very rubbed. One inch split to top of rear hinge. Deckled (rough-cut) page e...

Life Of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. By The Late George Williams Fulcher ; Edited by his son [E. S. Fulcher]

FULCHER, George Williams (1795-1855) / Fulcher, Edmund Syer (1834-1864) . · 1856

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1856 . 0 Second edition. Publisher's green cloth binding. 8vo. 7.0" x4.75" x 1.0". pp.viii/pp.248. A good tight binding. Corners rubbed and bumped. Gilt titles to spine. Original yellow endpapers. Previous owner's dedication to front e...

I'm on a See-Saw. An Autobiography. (signed).

ELLIS, VIVIAN. · 1953

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,090)

London; Michael Joseph, 1953. 1st edition. Autobiography of the English musical comedy composer best known for the song "Spread a Little Happiness" and the Paul Temple theme "Coronation Scot". Pp.270, inscribed "To (musician) Peter Durrent with best wishes from Vivian Ellis" t...

A Galloway Childhood.

NIALL, IAN. · 2000

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers Ltd, 2000. 1872350135. 1st in this edition, limied to 1000 copies (this book is not numbered). Niall's classic memoir was originally published in 1967. Pp.160, includes family photographs. Grreen boards, dustwrapper has creasing to top rear edge. ...

The Life Of John, Duke of Marlborough : With Some Account Of His Contemporaries And Of The War Of The Succession.

ALISON, ARCHIBALD (1792-1867) - · 1852

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood & Sons, MDCCCLII [1852] . 0. Second edition, greatly enlarged. A very good two volume set in matching half leather bindings. 8vo. 8.7" x 5.7" x 1.5". Vol. I. : pp.xx./pp.450 + portrait + 5 double-page maps; Vol. II.: pp.xiv/pp.476 + por...

Fuhrer-Ex. Memoirs of a Former Neo-Naz.

HASSELBACH, INGO. (WITH REISS, TOM). · 1996

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. 0701165367. 1st edition. "Hasselbach founded the first neo-Nazi party in East Germany, and preached racism, anti-Semitism and anti-government terrorism. Now his mission is to prevent others from following the path of hate..It exposes the ramifica...

Letters to Nobody. 1908-1913 .

WILSON, SIR GUY FLEETWOOD (SIGNED COPY) · 1921

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1921 . 0. First edition. A scarce first edition of this collection of letters by the Right Honorable Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson. "Sophia Westwater from Guy Fleetwood Wilson January 1937"A very good red half calf binding over red cloth board...

Letters to Somebody: A Retrospect.

WILSON, SIR GUY FLEETWOOD (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR) · 1922

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1922 . 0. First edition. A scarce first edition of this collection of letters by the Right Honorable Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson. Signed dedication to half-title: "Sophia Westwater from Guy Fleetwood Wilson January 1937". A very good red half c...

The Life of John Sell Cotman.

KITSON, SYDNEY D. · 1982

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

London: Rodart Reproductions, 1982. 095033071X. Reprint of the original 1937 edition. "John Sell Coman (1782-1842) was an outstanding and innovative watercolour artist and etcher. Born in Norwich, he was a leading member of the Norwich School of Artists.." Pp.xx/394, 156 black...

Sergey Prokofiev. Diaries 1915-1923. Behind the Mask.

PHILLIPS, ANTHONY. · 2008

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London: Faber & Faber,2008. 9780571226306. 1st edition. The second volume of Prokofiev's 'Diaries' extends from 1915-1923. Descibes in detai the genesis and, all too often, theproblematical path to performance of major works in the canon, including the Third Piano Concerto, th...

Some Further Recollections Of A Happy Life: Selected from the journals of Marianne North, chiefly between the years 1859 and 1869 / edited by her sister Mrs. John Addington Symonds .

NORTH, MARIANNE 1830-1890 · 1893

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London: Macmillan And Co, 1893 . 0. A very good original green cloth binding. Reprint of the first edition; August 1893. 8vo. pp.viii./pp.316 + one plate (2 missing). Green cloth with gilt illustration to front cover: "Papyrus Cyane", and gilt titles to spine. Boards lightly r...

The Poznanski Family. - Jewish Entrepreneurs from Lodz.

MACHEJEK, ANDZEJ. · 2010

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Lodz: Wydawnictwo Hamal, 2010. 1st edition. The history of thebest-known family of manufacturers living in Lodz at the turn of the nineteenth ceentury. The book presents not only the history of the family, but also the beauiful palaces, large factories and the stunning family ...

The Wandering Years. Diaries 1922-1939.

BEATON, CECIL. · 1961

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961. 2nd impression. First volume in Beaton\'s six volume series of Diaries. Autobiography of the British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and...

Donald Campbell. An Informal Biography. (signed).

YOUNG-JAMES, DOUGLAS. · 1968

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London: Neville Spearman, 1968. 1st edition. "The author was a personal friend of both Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell..quotations from some sixty letters are given with permission," Pp.159, 9 photo illustrations + 2 maps and pedigree of Campbell of Tain, Co.Ross to end, signe...

Eugenie Sellers Strong. Portrait of an Archaeologist.

DYSON, STEPHEN L. · 2004

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London: Duckworth, 2004. 0715632191. 1st edition. "Eugenie Sellers Strong was a pioneer: she was among the first women in England to receive a university education and, after leaving Cambridge, went on to become a professional archaeologist..She enjoyed close friendships with ...

The Lois Wilson Story. When Love is Not Enough. A Biography of the Co-founder of Al-Anon.

BORCHETT, WILLIAM G. · 2005

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Center City, Minnesota: Hazelden, 2005. 1592853285. The little-known story of Lois Burnham Wilson, cofounder of Al-Anon and wife of Alcohol Anonymous (AA) cofounder Bill W. "From her privileged childhood in turn-of-the-century New York City, to her unexpected but exhilarating ...

Female Pipings in Eden.

SMYTH, ETHEL. · 1933

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London: Peter Davies Limited, 1933. 1st edition First printing. Autobiographical work by English composer and member of the women\'s suffrage movement, Dame Ethel Smyth. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. ...

Queer Saint. The Cultured Life of Peter Watson...

CLARK, ADRIAN AND DRONFIELD, JEREMY. · 2015

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London: John Blake / Metro, 2015. 9781784186005. The Cultured Life of Peter Watson who Shook Twentieth-Century Art and Shocked High Society. "When Peter Watson was murdered in his bath by a jealous boyfriend in 1956, the art world lost one of its wealthiest, most influential p...

Called to be Me.

CUNDIFF, MARGARET. · 1987

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London:Triangle / SPCK, 1987. 0281040133. "The authors reminiscences of ten years spent on the staff of a parish church in North Yorkshire are often hilarious, sometimes poignant, always entertaining. By telling what its really like to be a women minister in a male dominated c...