Search Results: LITERATURE / LITERATURE from Chilton Books

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1954.. 1st.ed. "A series of essays on the literature and background of the period from Chaucer to Spenser including a specially edited anthology of medieval texts." Pp. 491. Slight toning to pages. P/b. Clear plastic protective cover. G+.

London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1969.. 1st ed. "Angus Wilson, one of the most highly esteemed of contemporary English novelists: his first collection of short stories, The Wrong Set, appeared in 1949. Most of his work deals with English character; he records with great accuracy the changing idiom, habits and other fashions of English society in his lifetime". Pp 31, name to fep, portrait to frontis. P/b. G+.

Cambridge: University Press,1896.. Rep. Pitt Press Series. Pp.36/192/8(ads),light spotting to prelims., inscrip to fep. Blue cloth, edges rubbed,gilt title to spine. G+.

Westminster:Constable,1895.. English Reprints series. 17cms x 11cms. Pp.72/2/30(ads),slight toning to endpapers. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine. VG.

London: James Nisbet & Co Ltd, 1912.. Contents: The right use of sacred literature by persons of average intelligence and education.--Matthew Arnold.--Public eloquence.--Irving as Hamlet.--Socrates and his Boswell.--Politics at Bethlehem.--Spy Wednesday.--A Roman gentleman of Trajan's time [Pliny the Younger]--Practice and preaching.--A French gentleman of the sixteenth century [Montaigne]--The advantages of disestablishment.--Dutch courage.--"The Twelfth."--Principle and interest.--The red flag and the white flag in France.--The usurpations of impulse.--Open communion.--Sand digging sans sand.--Intellectual animosity.--Quarter decking.--The law of the subsequent. Pp.300/8(ads), photogravure portrait frontispiece. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. VG. **"Edward Richard Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool (9 August 1834-20 February 1920), was a British journalist and Liberal politician.Russell was a newspaper man who also involved himself in politics. Born in London, he was largely self-made,… Read More

New York: Citadel Press, 1965.. 1st ed. "A brilliant and penetrating study of the playwright and all of his plays." Pp. 256, 9 b/w illustrations, inscription to fep "Dear Pauline, with love Sheila, August 1977." Author's signature? Mottled blue cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w. G+/G+.

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. The remaining part of the book consists of a bibliography raisonnee, made up of lists of books". Pp 338, ex college library inkstamps to verso front cover, fep and title page. Cream cloth, d/w has numbers to spine. VG/G+.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.. Ex college library. "Professor Elkin has gathered together the opinions of Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and their contemporaries, on the nature and function of satire; and he has examined this body of opinion with a view to increasing our understanding of satire generally and of certain of the classics of English satirical writing." Pp.10/227, inkstamps to endpapers and title page, scuff to ffep. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1962.. Besides the famous introduction to his selection of Metaphysical Poets, which is reprinted here, this volume also contains critical studies of Don Quixote, Byron, Blake, and Gray, together with an explanatory essay entitled Classical and Romantic". Pp 248, name to verso front cover. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+.

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, made up of lists of books". Pp 493, ex college library inkstamps to verso front cover, fep and title page. Fawn cloth, title to spine, d/w has numbers to spine. VG/G+.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965.. 1st.ed. "Intended to be functional and aimes at teachers and students...Takes a broad view at biography, includes history, scripture and hagiography." Pp. 472. P/b. Some creasing to covers. G.

London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1924.. Facsimile reprint.The original of this text is in the Bodleian Library (Malone 575), issued as Vol X in the Bodley Head Quartos series. Pp.65/errata page/ 2(ads), toning to endpapers. Dark fawn cloth, blue titles to front board and spine, spine and edges rubbed, but still a good tight binding. ** Robert Greene: Born in Norwich, in Norfolk, England, the second child to Robert Greene, a saddler, and his wife, Mary, Greene was baptized in 1558. Little is known of his early life. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1575 on a scholarship, and received his degree in 1578. After a tour of the continent and time spent writing Mamillia, A mirrour or looking-glasse for the ladies of Englande (1580), Greene returned to the university. He received an M.A. in 1583 from Clare Hall, Cambridge. Greene married around 1585, but he abandoned his wife and newborn child in 1586 and went to London. There he became one of the earliest professional writers�that is,… Read More

London: Methuen, 1905.. New and cheaper Issue. Pp.16/396/40(ads), endpapers toned. Blue cloth, gilt armorial roundel to front,gilt title to spine, top and tail of spine rubbed. G+.

London: TriadGrafton. 1979.. Rep. "In 1967, the publication of B.J. Kirkpatrick's revised bibliography of Virginia Woolf's writings revealed more than one hundred items that had never previously been published in book form. This book comprises a selection of these reviews and essays, a collection which firmly endorses Virginia Woolf's significance as a writer of non-fiction". Pp 300, slight toning to pages, name to fep. Pbk, slight creasing to spine. G+.

London: Heinemann, 1977.. 1st ed. "In this study Michael Morley follows Brecht's complex development stage by stage ..." Pp. 7/135, ex-library. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w price-clipped and with clear protective wrap. G+/G+.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.. A lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on May 14, 1924. Pp.22, chipping to margins. Pbk rubbed with edge tears. G.

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+.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.. Rep. First published between the years 1907 and 1916. History of English literature at the end of the Middle Ages. Pp. 8/431. Light blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w. VG/VG.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.. Rep. First published between the years 1907 and 1916. A history of English literature. Pp. 8/418. Light blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w. VG/G+.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1950.. 1st ed. Written at various times in the twenty years before her death, and published posthumously by her husband Leonard Woolf. Pp.224, owners nameto fep, toning to endpapers. Brown cloth, title to spine darkened, sunning to spine. G+.