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The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age.

DICKSON CARR, JOHN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1983. 0385187149. 1st edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas G. Greene. "Nine never-before-published radio plays by the late John Dickson Carr..Here, all the hallmarks of Carr's classic detective novels …

Conquering the Dragon. The True Life Story of a Former Triad Gang Member.

GOH, KIM. (WITH ANDREW CHAMBERLAIN). · 2008 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Milton Keynes: Authentic, 2008. 9781860246166. "A successful businessman by the age of eighteen, Kim Goh's violent pursuits and ability to con people kept him from settling in countries for long..Climbing his way up the career ladder of a UK triad gang, Kim soon found that his v…

Running Out of Time. A Critical Review of Evolution, Creation & Consummation.

WILSON, GRAHAM. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Gullane: The Rowans Press, 1995. 095248840X. 1st edition. "Deals with the way things began and the way they will end..He holds to creation rather tan evolution, to recent reation rather than ancient creation, to a universal as distinct from a local flood, and he maintains that t…

The Time Has Come. Ancient Egypt, Israel and Finis.

WILSON, GRAHAM. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Gullane: The Rowans Press, 1996. 0952488418. 1st edition. Sequel to "Running Out of Time". "How was it possible to construct the Great Pyramid at Giza? What about God's promises to Abraham and to Israel? Daniel's '70 weeks' - fulfilled or awaiting fulfilment? Is the world now he…

New Legends . Poems By Hervey Allen .

ALLEN, HERVEY [ WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN 1889-1949] / PRIESTLEY, J. B. (SIGNED) . · 1929 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, On Murray Hill, MCMXXIX [ 1929 ] . 0. Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm [7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75"]. pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards, edges lightly rubbed, with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles f…

Sermons To Asses, To Doctors In Divinity, To Lords Spiritual, And To Ministers Of State. By The late Rev. James Murray, Of Newcastle. With An Engraved portrait Of The Author, And An Original Sketch Of his Life.

MURRAY, REV. JAMES . · 1817 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

London: Printed for William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1817 - 1819 . 0. A tight early binding. Old papered boards, very rubbed and bumped. Black cloth spine, also very rubbed. Endpapers lightly soiled. Catalogue review laid down to verso of the front board. Engraved portrait frontis. C…

Pietro's Pilgrimage. A Journey to India and Back at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century. (Signed).

BLUNT, WILFRID. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London: James Barrie, 1953. 1st edition. "Pietro Della Valle was in the East for some twelve years. He knew Constantinople well in the sunset of its glory; he visited Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, Aleppo and Baghdad; he explored Ctesiphon and Babylon; he spent seven years in Persi…

Top-Hats in Tobruk.

RANKIN, KENNETH. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Odiham: Kenneth Rankin, 1983. 1st edition. "The story of a Troop of Anti-Aircraft Gunners who took part in the early North African Campaigns. Taken from the diary of one of its officers, it gives an authentic and intimate almost hour by hour account of the Siege of Torbruk, writ…

Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time.

WALDRON, MARY. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 0521651301. 1st edition. Explores the nature of Jane Austen's "confrontations with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction". Pp.x/194, signed by the author to front free endpap…

Birket Foster R.W.S. (By H. M. Cundall, I.S.O., F.S.A).

CUNDALL, H. M. (HERBERT MINTON CUNDALL 1848-1940) . · 1906 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

London: Adam And Charles Black, 1906 . 0. Signed by "Myles Birket Foster" ! First Edition. A very good tight binding with an interesting provenance. pp.20/pp.216/[4pp. - Adverts]. Decorated cloth binding, corners bumped. Spine sunned with slight loss to top of spine. Large bookp…

The Politics of Faith. Essays on the Morality of Key Current Affairs.

GLOVER, PETER C. · 2004 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Xulon Press, 2004. 1594677964. 1st edition. "Facts, reason, morality. These three principles alone should guide our understanding concerning the major issues of the day. So why is it that the "mainstream" media, many of our politicians, and countless "social commentators" seem s…

Mentoring, Preceptorship and Clinical Supervision. A Guide to Professional Roles in Clinical Practice.

MORTON-COOPER, ALISON AND PALMER, ANNE. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2000. 0632049677. 2nd edition. "Will stimulate fresh thinking about what we need and can gain from professional learning support. It challenges professionals to recognise the value of support in promoting trust and collegiality within the diverse setti…

Who Am I? What does it mean to be a person?

HOLLEY, RAYMOND. · 2007 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Sudbury, Suffolk: Privately published, 2007. 1st edition. "The author forcefully rejects the positivist and scientistic understanding of personal life solely in physical terms and argues that a person is a creative subject of numerous dimensions in addition to the physical..It i…

Poems in Pamphlet 1952. III. Drift. Poems and Sonnets.

BULL, A.J. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. 1st edition. Poems in Pamphlet was a monthly publication with each devoted to the work of a different poet. Pp.88, initialled dedication "For John Atkins, with sincerest good wishes, AJB" to title page, a couple of marginal notations/c…

Environment and Efficiency. A Study in the Records of Industrial Schools and Orphanages.

THOMSON, MARY HORNER. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.06 | ¥4,641)

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1912. 1st edition. Birmingham Studies in Social Economics and Adjacent Fields Volume I. (Edited by Professor W.J.Ashley). Pp.x/100, signed by the editor Walter Ashley to front free endpaper, a few light spots. Blue stiff card covers rubbed with we…

King and Rebel, A Historical Drama... / Meted Out. An Original Modern Drama.... by Dr Vellère.

VELLERE, EDOUARD RAPHAEL WELLER. · 1873 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London: Samuel French, 89, Strand, [Printed by Thomas Scott, 1 Warwick Court, Holborn], 1873 . 0. Scarce edition of two plays, signed by the author. pp.72/42. Original maroon buckram with gilt titles to the front board: "King & Rebel. - Meted Out." Maroon leather spine carefully…

POW - Behind Canadian Barbed Wire. Alien, Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1914-1946.

CARTER, DAVID J. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Elkwater: Eagle Butte Press Co.Ltd, 1998. 096841110X. Originally published in 1980. Pp.253, 12 pages of black & white photographs, signed by the author to title page. Paperback with minor edge wear. Scarce. VG.

Forty Years On The Pacific. The Lure Of The Great Ocean. A Book Of Reference For The Traveller And Pleasure For The Stay-At-Home. Compiled By Frank Coffee.

COFFEE, FRANK (1852-1929). · 1920 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

New York ; Sydney; San Francisco : Oceanic Publishing Company, A. M. Robertson, [1920] . 0. Signed first edition with a dedication to Charlotte Cameron OBE. A very good tight binding. pp.10/pp.375, with 9 maps and 51 pages of black & white pictures (including the frontispiece of…

Dr. E. G. Varenne (1811-1887), Of Kelvedon, Botanist: Some Local Anecdotes and Reminiscences. By Alfred Hills, M.A. With Illustrations. Reprinted from "The Essex Naturalist," vol. xviii., 1918 .

HILLS, ALFRED . · 1918 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Colchester, Essex: The Essex Naturalist, Printed By Benham & Company Limited, 24 High Street, 1918 . 0. A good original pamphlet. Signed first edition. pp.292-300 . Light grey card covers with black printed titles, rubbed and creased. Dedication along top edge: "With the Author'…

The Martyrs Of Braintree & Bocking. A Lecture. By S. T. Williams. Price Sixpence.

WILLIAMS, S. T. · 1930 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Braintree: Printed By E. And C. Joscelyne / London: Williams And Lloyd, 29, Moorgate Street, [no date - c. 1930] . 0. A scarce original booklet. First and only edition. 6.50" x 4.0". [2pp.]/pp.44 . Light brown card covers with printed titles. Rubbed edges and light soiling to co…