Search Results: Authors starting with U from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1686. 4th. hardback. Very good for its age, brown full leather binding, ribbed spine with titling plate glued; front guttering loosening (ffep detached); otherwise pages tightly bound, crisp and unmarked. Neat owner's inscription ffep (D. Walbrooke, Feb 25 1704). 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Full title: An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland wherein, the judgment of antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the novelty of the new Romish doctrine plainly discovered (1686) To which is added A Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish and the British (1687); A sermon before the King's Majesty20th June, 1625 at Wanstead (1687)

London: English Theatre Guild, 1951. 1st. hardback. Very good, printed boards (some bumping at edges), black clothbound spine with white titling (some rubbing); text block firm, pages unmarked. Provenance: owned by P. M. B. Savage, renowned Headmaster of Summer Fields, Oxford until 1975 (signature on front pastedown). 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Ustinov was a comic master and polymath. This play was set in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, in the Austrian village of Herzogenburg, in the HQ of the Allied Military Administration (UK, USA, France, USSR). Cover design by Ustinov.

Oxford: Robert Dugdale, 1980. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, d/j (vg, some bumping, in protective sleeve); maroon boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). This collection gathers verses or prosepieces that are beautiful, touching or ecceintric, telling us what people over the centuries have been moved to say about their dead.