Search Results: Authors starting with A from Inklings & Yarnspinners

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. 1st. hardback. Fine - as new. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social changeMany books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition with unclipped d/j in wrapper, grey boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages bright and crisp, unmarked, binding good. Provenance: Prof Bill Trowbridge OBE, engineer and physicist, one of founders of computational electromagnetics (plate on front pastedown). 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Eliot had left instructions that his biography should never be written, Peter Ackroyd received no help or assistance from those who knew him best including Eliot's widow. However when he began to search what was availbabe he found a mountain of letters and other material in Englend and America and from this he has been able to to assemble a much fuller account of Eliot's long and many sided life than has ever been revealed before.

London: Atlantic Books, 2008. 1st UK. hardback. Very good 1st UK edition, with crisp unclipped d/j, blue clothbound boards clean and silver titling on spine bright. Pages tightly bound and unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). 2008 Booker Prize Winner. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.

London: William Heinemann, 1912. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st thus edition, original white cloth, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 13 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards, spine darkened, finger-soiling to covers, endpapers spotted, mounts offset onto adjacent text-leaves as often (qty: 1) First edition thus, number 743 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two, and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story, and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000. 1st. paperback. Good, some occasional underlinings. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer.""A wonderfully evocative memoir. . . . Agee evoked for me the atmosphere of postwar Berlin more vividly than the actual experience of itÑand I was there."" ÑChristopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times""One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch."" ÑChristopher Isherwood

Glasgow: D. C. Thomson & Col, 1983. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st, glazed card covers clean (small crease back card), binding as new, pages unmarked and bright.. 8vo: imperial (290 _ 210 / 11_"" x 8_""). 1983 album of the famous strip in Scots published in the weekly Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. It features the Brown family, who live in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street in (since the late 1990s) the fictional Scottish town of Auchentogle or Auchenshoogle. Originally created by writer/editor R. D. Low and artist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip made its first appearance in the issue dated 8 March 1936.

Glasgow: D. C. Thomson & Col, 1981. 1st. paperback. Near fine, 1st, glazed card covers clean, binding as new, pages unmarked and bright.. 8vo: imperial (290 _ 210 / 11_"" x 8_""). 1981 album of the famous strip in Scots published in the weekly Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. It features the Brown family, who live in a tenement flat at 10 Glebe Street in (since the late 1990s) the fictional Scottish town of Auchentogle or Auchenshoogle. Originally created by writer/editor R. D. Low and artist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip made its first appearance in the issue dated 8 March 1936.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. New, corrected. hardback. Good, full-leather binding with gilt edging (some rubbing). Front board detached. decoration and spine titling bright, on black panels (ribbed spine x5); marbled pastedowns and edges; pages clean, crisp and unmarked with tight binding. Unread. Rugby School prize - embossed emblem on front and plate glued on front pastedown (presented to C. Headlam who would become a 1st Class Cricketer and travel writer 1872-1934).. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Cary's famous blank verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy was published at his own expense in 1814 (because his publisher wouldn't risk it after his Inferno failed to sell). This won acclaim, however, especially once Samuel Taylor Coleridge sang its praises during a lecture at the Royal Institution.

London: Bodley Head, 1983. 1st. hardback. Near fine 1st edition with unclipped d/j.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). For any fascinated by Graham Greene, this is a must-read. Renowned for personal reserve, even prickliness, it took a friend, Marie-Francoise Allain to do what no other journalist had been able to do: to draw out of Greene some of his inner-most thoughts and perceptions. This was in part because of their friendship (she was the daughter of a French Resistance fighter and one of Greene's amis de guerre), and in part because he saw her (rightly) as an accomplished literary critic and scholar rather than journalist.

London: New English Library, 1987. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve), black boards, gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Allbeury tells it as it is: he was there and he knows what it feels like. (The Washington Post) Inspired by the Soviet Union's downing of an American spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers in 1960, one of Ted Allbeury's most explosive thrillers introduces the brilliant British spycatcher Joe Shapiro. But even Shapiro's superiors doubt his intentions when he attempts to convince the CIA to exchange a high-powered Communist agent for the seemingly unimportant pilot. Does Shapiro have more than a professional interest in the case? An intricate web of lies and deception brings the Cold War to vivid life in this intriguing work by the bestselling master of the genre (Booklist).

New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, 1st printing; with unclipped d/j (good, some price label residue and bumping); red boards clean; text block firm, unmarked pages crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Witnessing the injustices against Native Americans by European settlers from childhood, Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised to seek justice for the weak and helpless.

New York: Atria Books, 2017. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping). Light/Dark blue oards & silver titling pristine; text block firm & unmarked pages. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz--a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile--for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile… Read More

London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, d/j in protective sleeve. SIGNED to plate affixed to fep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Duran, a young social worker,… Read More

London: Fourth Estate, 2006. 1st UK. hardback. Fine, 1st UK edition, unclipped d/j (v.g., some price label residue); black boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A real historical figure, InŽs Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this remarkable novel, Isabel Allende Ð one of the world's most spellbinding storytellers Ð re-imagines InŽs's life and that of the two men who become her lover and husband respectively.Based on actual historical events, ÔInŽs of My SoulÕ evokes the conflict and drama of the Conquistadors' arrival in Chile, as well as helping restore the reputation of Ines, a powerful woman long neglected by history and a patriarchal society. It also finds Allende returning to territory beloved of her and her readers Ð imaginative historical fiction, evocatively told Ð and to the familiar… Read More

London: SPCK, 1966. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, ex-library (Latimer Trust), unclipped d/j (chipped, in protective sleeve), grey boards, gilt spine titling, text block firm, pages unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). During the seventeenth century, a remarkable change took place in Anglican theology. FitzSimons Allison describes a unique consensus that emerged in the century's early years through the labors of such seminal theologians as Hooker, Andrewes, Donne, and Davanant. Their difficult task was to outline an English theology to be distinguished from Trent on the one hand, and the increasingly aggressive Reformed continental theologies on the other. That they managed a clear, creative, and comprehensive outlook while avoiding the excesses of Roman and Puritan theologies is no small accomplishment. With the later Carolines, notably Jeremy Taylor and Richard Baxter, there arose a theology whose generating principle was morality, quite unlike their immediate predecessors. This… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1953. 1st. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, red boards clean, gilt spine titling a little faded; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; very minor foxing on endpapers.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). George Cary, former WWII bomber pilot and newly minted lawyer, reviews the files on the Schneider Johnson case, to make sure nothing has been overlooked. What George discovers connects a deserter from NapoleonÕs defeated army to a guerrilla fighter in post-war Greece, and leads him into a dangerous situation where his own survival will depend more on what he learned in the army than anything he learned in law school. Graham Greene said of Ambler, 'Unquestionably our best thriller writer ever.'

London: Heinemann, 1962. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (some chipping and bumping); blue clothbound boards (some marking), white spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his unhappy childhood in England and eking out a living in Athens. When he spots a newly arrived tourist at the airport, he offers his services as a private driver and sees an easy chance to make some money by illicit means. But the out-matched Simpson soon finds himself embroiled in blackmail and driving a highly suspicious car to Istanbul. When he is stopped by the Turkish police, it seems his luck can't get any worse - but this is just the beginning . . .

London: Hutchinson, 1984. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g. in protective sleeve); red boards, silver spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. Some feint but odd discolourations on ffep!. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Just when Stanley Duke thinks it's safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious.

London: Flamingo, 1995. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, 1st printing; unclipped d/j; dark blue boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block and unmarked pages firm.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronuncation. Scott-Thompson, however, is extrememly attached to his own moustache and not so particular about his use of language. It doesn't help matters that Fane's wife Joanna isn't yet sure what she feels about moustaches, but has decided views on younger men...

London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g.), green cloth boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages a little sunned otherwise unmarked and crisp.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to discover. In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes?