Search Results: Authors starting with T from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, no d/j, small bumping mark base of front board; gilt titling on cover and spine bright. Pages tight and crisp, unmarked.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). Alice in Sunderland is a graphic novel like no other. Bryan Talbot takes the city of Sunderland and the story of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell (the 'real' Alice) as the spine of his story and around them spins a spectacularly diverse range of different stories. He explores Carroll's links with Sunderland and shows how the city inspired his masterpieces. He delves into the city's history, from the Venerable Bede to George Formby, from its heyday as the greatest shipbuilding port in the world to its present multicultural mix.

Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2016. 1st thus. p/b. Very good, covers vg, text block firm and no creases; some underlining/marginalia. C (216 x 135). If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living in a much better society than we do. ~ Christopher Hitchens At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. Nobody is not a divided self, of course, he once told an interviewer, but I think it s rather strong in my case. Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life, pro-war-on-terror, and after 9/11 something of a neocon; and while he railed against God on stage, he maintained meaningful though largely hidden from public view friendships with evangelical Christians like Francis Collins,… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 2023. 1st. h/b. Fine, signed to title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). London 1671: The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a manÕs brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is ordered to investigate. ItÕs possible the victim could be one of two local men who have vanished Ð the first, a feckless French tutor connected to the almshouseÕs owner; the second, a possibly treacherous employee of the Council of Foreign Plantations. The pressure on Marwood mounts as Charles IIÕs most influential courtiers, Lord Arlington and the Duke of Buckingham, show an interest in his activities Ð and Marwood soon begins to suspect the murder trail may lead right to the heart of government. Meanwhile, a young, impoverished Frenchwoman has caught the eye of the king, a quiet affair that will have… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2004. 1st (special). h/b. Near Fine, 1st ""Special"" edition, Signed, with unclipped d/j, unmarked pages but slight foxing.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Dr Sabian Blake - astronomer, scientist, and master of the Cabala - is in possession of the Nemorensis, an ancient leather-bound book which holds the secrets of the universe. Its mysterious inscription reads: 'Wormwood...the bright star shall fall from the sky...and many will die from its bitterness'. Deciphering this prophecy could prove the key to saving London from a catastrophic fate. But there are others interested in the Nemorensis too - for more sinister reasons.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st. p/b. Near fine, 1st p/b edition, Signed & dated, unmarked pages and tight binding, slightly browned. B (198 x 129). Sorcerer Obadiah Demurral seeks to control the highest power in the universe. Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane, are out to stop him. Features new material, an extra chapter and facts about the book's location.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st (special). h/b. Fine, 1st ""Special"" edition, Signed & dated, with unclipped d/j, unmarked pages and tight binding.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A special edition of the children's bestseller, in which sorcerer Obadiah Demurral seeks to control the highest power in the universe. Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane, are out to stop him. Features new material, an extra chapter and facts about the book's location.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st ""Special"" edition, Signed, with unclipped d/j, unmarked pages and tight binding.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A special edition of the children's bestseller, in which sorcerer Obadiah Demurral seeks to control the highest power in the universe. Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane, are out to stop him. Features new material, an extra chapter and facts about the book's location.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st (special). h/b. Fine, 1st ""Special"" edition, Signed & dated, with unclipped d/j, unmarked pages and tight binding.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A special edition of the children's bestseller, in which sorcerer Obadiah Demurral seeks to control the highest power in the universe. Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane, are out to stop him. Features new material, an extra chapter and facts about the book's location.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st (special). h/b. Fine, 1st ""Special"" edition, Signed, with unclipped d/j, unmarked pages and tight binding.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A special edition of the children's bestseller, in which sorcerer Obadiah Demurral seeks to control the highest power in the universe. Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane, are out to stop him. Features new material, an extra chapter and facts about the book's location.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st (special). h/b. Fine, 1st ""Special"" edition, Signed & dated, with unclipped d/j, unmarked pages and tight binding.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A special edition of the children's bestseller, in which sorcerer Obadiah Demurral seeks to control the highest power in the universe. Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane, are out to stop him. Features new material, an extra chapter and facts about the book's location.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. reprint. p/b. Very good, reprint p/b, owner's neat inscription inside cover.. B (198 x 129). As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then a trap brought about the family's arrest. Could God's love shine through, even in Ravensbruck?

London: Macmillan and Co, 1892. 1st thus. hardback. Very good, 1st edition thus, no d/j, green boards clean, gilt spine titling clear; text block firm, untrimmed pages tight and unmarked, though some spotting and foxing on endpapers; owner's neat inscription on 2nd fep.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Published in the year of Tennyson's death, a collection of poetry from his earliest to later work. A first edition of this collection of poetry by Tennyson. Including June Bracken and Heather, Kapiolani, The Dreamer, St. Telemachus and many others.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1889. 1st. hardback. Near fine, full-leather binding with gilt edging, decoration and spine titling bright, on black panels (ribbed spine x5); marbled pastedowns and edges; pages clean, crisp and unmarked with tight binding (apart from water damage on title page and f'pce). 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).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). 1st edition of Tennyson's poem Demeter and others including a celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.

London: Edward Moxon, 1855. 1st. hardback. Fair. Original green blind-blocked cloth cover with some fading. Spine with gilt lettering intact, peeling in places. Inside back board split. Pages clean and text clear.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Collection includes one of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade

London: Macmillan and Co, 1885. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, green boards clean (a little rubbed on spine) with gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). First edition of this collection from towards the end of Tennyson's life (dedicated to Robert Browning), including The Charge of the Heavy Brigade, Helen's Tower, Epitaph on Caxton.

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1900. hardback. Very good, no d/j, maroon boards (bumping at edges and spine dulled )with small decorated circle on cover (gilt embossed) and gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; some foxing on endpapers.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits. But here Thackeray plunders his own past to create the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London. The result is a superbly panoramic blend of people, action and background. The true ebb and flow of life is caught and the credibility of Pen, his worldly uncle, the Major, and many of the other characters, extends far beyond the pages of the novel. Held together by Thackeray's flowing, confident prose, with its conversational ease of tone, Pendennis is as… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1887. Pocket. h/b. Good, Quarter marble boards with red spine (showing some wear and bumping), gilt on black panel spine label); text block intact, pages unmarked and crisp, only mild and occasional foxing. Top edges black.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as ""The Snobs of England, by one of themselves"", in the satirical magazine Punch. With b/w line drawings throughout.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1863. 1st. hardback. Very Good, 1st Edition, original blindstamped navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; pale green endpapers. Minimal scuffing, spine very faintly sunned; text block good, untrimmed pages unmarked and clean, save occasional foxing; a few pages a little loose but still attached.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Three years before he died, Thackeray took on the editorship of The Cornhill Magazine in 1860, despite far prefering the job of writing pieces for his 'Roundabout Papers' column. These were published in this anthology soon after his death in 1863. This is the 1st edition, with occasional illustrations by Thackeray himself.

London: John Camden Hotton, n.d. (?1874). 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, no d/j, blue boards with black crest and impressed ruling (scratched and fading at edges), gilt spine titling good, text block firm, pages unmarked, colour plates good.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1905. Biographical. hardback. Very good, vol IX in Biographical edition of Thackeray's works; red boards a little scuffed and bumped; gilt spine titling and cover decoration fair; black pastedowns (a little tearing in front gutter); text block firm, pages clean and unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Michael Angelo Titmarsh was one of Thackeray's several pseudonyms early on in his career. He was a trenchant critic and satirist of the absurdities and hypocrisies of high society. The 5 Christmas books were combined and not revealed to be Thackeray's until after his death in 1863.