Search Results: 2nd-hand books from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Baskerville, 2022. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition. D/j in protective sleeve. Slightest forward lean.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). #1 bestseller in Sweden with over 1.5 million copies sold 'Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist' Guardian The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be just at home in the madhouse across the road. Ridden with guilt, he spends his nights writing down memories of his lost love who died on their wedding night. Her mother also mourns her and when no one listens to her suspicions, she begs the aid of the only person who will listen: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. Cecil Winge is six months in the ground but when his younger brother Emil seeks out the watchman to retrieve his brother's missing pocket watch, Cardell enlists his help to discover what really happened at Three Roses' estate that night. But, unlike his… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. 1st. paperback. Fine, 1st, original printed wrappers staplebound, Comprised of the covers plus four leaves containing the title page, five poems and adverts. . 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Published in his lifetime, this little anthology includes one of his best-loved poems, The Soldier

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1920. 28th. hardback. Good, 28th printing (5 years after original in 1915); black boards (some bumping and staining); spine titling plate chipped and browned; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked; sunning on endpapers; loose inserts (incl clipping of Times of London 1914). 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Early collection of Rupert Brooke's war poetry including the 1914 poems, The South Seas, and Grantchester.

London: Faber & Faber, 1948. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st UK edition, unclipped d/j (good, with some rubbing and chipping, in protective sleeve); blue clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp, but with some foxing on edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a prolific writer of novels, poetry, childrens fiction, and translations from French. She and her third husband Baron Joseph von Franckenstein were victims of Macarthyism and HUAC, both being blacklisted from various outlets. The story of a French woman who loves an Austrian--but it is more than a love story, for Corinne is the incorruptible non-appeaser of our time; and Ferdl is the opportunitist, the arranger, who tries all facets in order to manipulate his own security.

London: Faber & Faber, 1964. 1st UK. hardback. Near fine, 1st UK edition, clipped d/j (good but with bumping and chipping); green clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Composed between 1958 and his death in 1962, this was the last published collection by E. E. Cummings. It contains some of his surest and most characteristic work.Much has been made of his innovations in typography and punctuation, which have been often misunderstood as mere 'effects'. But it is evident that they are one aspect - and a very important one - of his search for the purest and most complete expression of his thought and feeling.

London: Harvill Secker, 2017. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels youÕll read this year' - Observer ÔThe most outrageously entertaining novel of the yearÉ A joyÕ Philip Hensher. Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. ItÕs February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language Ð an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight… Read More

London: Cassell & Co, 1950. 1st. hardback. Good, missing d/j, red clothbound boards quite worn with spine faded, as is gilt spine titling; text block reasonably firm, pages unmarked. Neat inscription on ffep. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly described, while the harshness of war is deftly exposed.His tales have been televised and have influenced films, operas and rock music. Disillusioned but humane, Maupassant remains our contemporary.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2020. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? Or stopped to ponder who gets to name the streets we walk along? Or what the story is behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships? 99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs. Now, in The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design, host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work,… Read More

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1936. 1st (1st reprint). hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st reprint same month), unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve), blue clothbound boards, gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). This collection contains Forsters delightful and essays on subjects as diverse as Mickey Mouse, English liberty, life in India, writers such as Woolf, Conrad and Proust, and the two pageants he wrote for his Surrey village of Abinger.

London: At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1999. 1st. paperback. Very good, 1st edition, black printed green cards, (a little bumping on edges); pages untrimmed but thread binding loose, internally unmarked and some browning; owner's plate on front pastedown.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A small collection of poems from the satirical writer and journalist T. W. H. Crosland.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g.), red boards, blue spine titling; text block firm, pages pristine.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. Now, decades later, the Cold War is over and the war on terror has begun. Sasha has another mission for them both, but this time it is impossible to tell the difference between allies - and enemies. Set in a world of lies and shifting allegiances, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times. 'Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Times

London: William Collins, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new (d/j in protective sleeve). Signed to ffep.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings Ôthe heart-stopping story of the missile crisisÕ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max HastingsÕs graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel CastroÕs Cuba, Nikita KhrushchevÕs Russia and KennedyÕs America; then to describe the nail-biting… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1956. Readers Union. hardback. Near fine, with v good d/j (slight bumping at top and fading at edges) pages clean and crisp.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The third in Powell's Dance to the Music of Time

London: Fourth Estate, 1996. 1st UK. hardback. Fine, 1st UK edition (same year as US), unclipped d/j (a little bumped at top), black boards, silver spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses a continent, traveling to Louisiana, Iowa, Texas, Maine, Illinois, Montana, and Mississippi. Divided into nine sections and spanning a century, this novel illuminates the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, the Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.

London: Folio Society, 1995. 2nd reprint. h/b. Fine, maroon on yellow printed boards, half maroon cloth spine, in yellow board slipcase.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Folio edition from the Journal of George Robertson, Master of HMS Dolphin, published originally as The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the world under the command of Captain Wallis, R.N., in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768, written by her master

New York: Grove Press, 2017. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window on this most secretive of countries. Bandi's profound, deeply moving, vividly characterised stories tell of ordinary men and women facing the terrible absurdity of daily life in North Korea: a factory supervisor caught between loyalty to an old friend and loyalty to the Party; a woman struggling to feed her husband through the great famine; the staunch Party man whose actor son reveals to him the absurd theatre of their reality; the mother raising her child in a world where the all-pervasive propaganda is the very stuff of childhood nightmare. The Accusation is a heartbreaking portrayal of the realities of life in… Read More

Chicago and London: University of Chicago, 1997. 1st. p/b. Very good, 1st edition, covers and textblock good, label residue on spine, some underlining.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The opening of the Stasi archives in 1989 revealed the existence of denunciation and informing in police states, but such practices have long been known. This is an exploration of denunciation and informing in Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The contributors to this study offer a comparative treatment which has particular relevance to the historical anthropology of everyday practices and debates on totalitarianism.

New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1947. revised. hardback. Good, 1st reprint of revised edition, missing d/j, green boards with some water staining and fading, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages tight and crisp, unmarked. Donor's inscription on ffep and owner's plate on front pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The revised edition in 1947 (after original published in 1935) of a respected l iterary criticism of the poetical works of Eliot, which is also a study of the art of poetry.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. Fine-paper. hardback. Very good, red full-leather binding, gilt titling and decorations on front and spine (spine edges a little fragile), patterned pastedowns, all edges gilt, pages unmarked and tightly bound.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters.The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train. Stevenson describes the train as having three sections: one for women and children, one for men, and one for Chinese. He notes that while the Europeans looked down on the Chinese for being dirty, in fact the Chinese carriages were the freshest and… Read More

London: Hutchinson, Heinemann, 2022. 1st. h/b. Fine, signed to title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive. Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.